Investment Process

The investment team seeks to invest in companies with franchise characteristics that are benefiting from an accelerating profit cycle and are trading at a discount to private market value.

Security Selection

  • Identify companies with franchise characteristics and defensible competitive positions
  • Invest in emerging profit cycles
  • Purchase stocks at a discount to private market value
  • Assess key environmental, social and governance issues that could impact future stock returns

Capital Allocation—Garden, Crop, Harvest® Investing

  • Build position size according to conviction
  • GardenSM — Smaller position sizes in companies that are early on in the profit cycle
  • CropSM — Larger position sizes in companies where profit cycle is being realized
  • HarvestSM — Reduced or sold positions as stock approaches full valuation or profit cycle begins to decelerate

Broad Knowledge

  • Invest opportunistically across entire global economy
  • Find growth wherever growth occurs

In-depth Investment Process

 

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Investment
Results (%)

As of 28 February 2023 QTD YTD 1 Yr 3 Yr 5 Yr 10 Yr Inception
Investor Class: ARTMX 10.09 10.09 -17.66 7.25 8.99 10.45 12.47
Russell Midcap® Growth Index 7.65 7.65 -8.31 8.66 8.74 11.45 8.72
Russell Midcap® Index 5.68 5.68 -4.99 11.46 8.40 10.68 9.58
As of 31 December 2022 QTD YTD 1 Yr 3 Yr 5 Yr 10 Yr Inception
Investor Class: ARTMX -1.13 -36.82 -36.82 3.44 7.97 10.02 12.13
Russell Midcap® Growth Index 6.90 -26.72 -26.72 3.85 7.64 11.41 8.47
Russell Midcap® Index 9.18 -17.32 -17.32 5.88 7.10 10.96 9.40

Calendar Year Returns (%)

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Investor Class: ARTMX -4.02 38.12 58.75 10.34 -36.82
Russell Midcap® Growth Index -4.75 35.47 35.59 12.73 -26.72
Russell Midcap® Index -9.06 30.54 17.10 22.58 -17.32
Returns for periods less than one year are not annualized. 

Past performance does not guarantee and is not a reliable indicator of future results. Investment returns and principal values will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than that shown. 

Ratings

Morningstar Overall RatingTM
As of 28 February 2023
   
Morningstar Analyst RatingTM
As of 28 February 2023
Bronze

Morningstar Rating and Analyst Rating Disclosure

Star ratings are based on risk-adjusted returns. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year Morningstar Ratings metrics. 523 funds in the overall Mid-Cap Growth category. View full Fund ratings.

The Morningstar Analyst Rating™ is not a credit or risk rating. It is a subjective evaluation performed by Morningstar’s manager research group, which consists of various Morningstar, Inc. subsidiaries (“Manager Research Group”). In the United States, that subsidiary is Morningstar Research Services LLC, which is registered with and governed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Manager Research Group evaluates funds based on five key pillars, which are process, performance, people, parent, and price. The Manager Research Group uses this five-pillar evaluation to determine how they believe funds are likely to perform relative to a benchmark over the long term on a risk adjusted basis. They consider quantitative and qualitative factors in their research.  View Important Disclosures below for further details. 

Expense Ratio

Annual Report 30 September 2022 1.18%
Prospectus 30 September 2022 1.19%

Expense Ratio Disclosure

See prospectus for further details. 

Top 10 Holdings
(% of total portfolio as of 28 February 2023)
HubSpot Inc (Information Technology) 4.6
Lattice Semiconductor Corp (Information Technology) 4.4
Veeva Systems Inc (Health Care) 4.2
Global Payments Inc (Information Technology) 3.6
Catalent Inc (Health Care) 3.4
Ascendis Pharma A/S (Health Care) 3.3
Argenx SE (Health Care) 3.2
Ingersoll Rand Inc (Industrials) 3.0
West Pharmaceutical Services Inc (Health Care) 3.0
Atlassian Corp (Information Technology) 3.0
Total 35.7%
View Full Holdings Historical Holdings
Portfolio Statistics
(as of 28 February 2023)
Median Market Cap (Billions) $19.8
Weighted Avg. Market Cap (Billions) $24.0
Weighted Harmonic Avg. P/E (FY1) 26.7X
Weighted Harmonic Avg. P/E (FY2) 25.1X
Weighted Avg. LT EPS Growth Rate (3-5 Yr) 18.1%
Weighted Avg. LT Debt/Capital 30.9%
Active Share 81.6%
Annual Turnover 34.1%
Number of Securities 61
Cash (% of total portfolio) 3.7%
Market Cap Distribution
(% of portfolio securities as of 28 February 2023)

$ in billions
38.4+ 21.0
27.2–38.4 12.7
17.4–27.2 33.3
11.4–17.4 17.4
0.0–11.4 15.5
TOTAL 100.0%
Sector Diversification
(% of portfolio securities as of 28 February 2023)
Communication Services 1.4
Consumer Discretionary 8.8
Consumer Staples 0.5
Energy
Financials 10.9
Health Care 29.2
Industrials 10.9
Information Technology 38.3
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities
Other
Total 100.0%
The investment team leverages high degrees of experience and knowledge within a disciplined investment process. Learn more about the Team.
  • Matthew Kamm, CFA
  • Portfolio Manager
  • 23Years Investment
    Experience
  • James Hamel, CFA
  • Portfolio Manager
  • 26Years Investment
    Experience
  • Craigh Cepukenas, CFA
  • Portfolio Manager
  • 34Years Investment
    Experience
  • Jason White, CFA
  • Portfolio Manager
  • 23Years Investment
    Experience
  • Jay Warner, CFA
  • Portfolio Manager
  • 21Years Investment
    Experience
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Current and future portfolio holdings are subject to risk. The value of portfolio securities selected by the investment team may rise or fall in response to company, market, economic, political, regulatory or other news, at times greater than the market or benchmark index. A portfolio’s environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) considerations may limit the investment opportunities available and, as a result, the portfolio may forgo certain investment opportunities and underperform portfolios that do not consider ESG factors. International investments involve special risks, including currency fluctuation, lower liquidity, different accounting methods and economic and political systems, and higher transaction costs. These risks typically are greater in emerging and less developed markets, including frontier markets. Securities of small- and medium-sized companies tend to have a shorter history of operations, be more volatile and less liquid and may have underperformed securities of large companies during some periods. Growth securities may underperform other asset types during a given period. These risks are discussed in the prospectus. Please read it carefully before you invest or send money. 

Performance Source: Artisan Partners/Russell. Data & Statistics Sources: Artisan Partners/Russell/GICS. Sector exposure percentages reflect sector designations as currently classified by GICS. Annual turnover is reported as of the Fund’s fiscal year end. Artisan Partners may exclude outlier data and certain securities which lack applicable attributes, such as private securities when calculating portfolio statistics. If information is unavailable for a particular security Artisan may use data from a related security to calculate portfolio statistics. For the purpose of determining the Fund's holdings, securities of the same issuer are aggregated to determine the weight in the Fund. Cash weighting includes cash and cash equivalents. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 

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