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SCZ holdings

SCZ reports 2,073 holdings and behaves like 1093 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

4.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 321.5

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

2,073 Positions reported
1093 Effective holdings
1.9× Concentration multiple
2.7% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 12.81% at a quoted market price (level 1), 33 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

SCZ's largest investment is Furukawa Electric Co Ltd at 0.5% of net assets. Resonac Holdings Corp and Mitsui Kinzoku Co Ltd follow; the three together are 1.37%. Ten companies are 2.7% of the fund; the other 2,063 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, SCZ behaves like 1093 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 25.8 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings SCZ has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (1106.6 then, 1027.2 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 83 positions were added and 43 dropped; 9.7% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 35.16% of the portfolio, across 33 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, SCZ went from behaving like 1106.6 equally weighted positions to 1027.2 — 7% fewer, while its top ten went from 2.83% to 3.54% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 2,051 1027.2 3.54% 0.5%
2026-01-31 2,013 1061.7 3.12% 0.42%
2025-10-31 2,028 1075.6 2.98% 0.38%
2025-07-31 2,011 1069.5 3.13% 0.38%
2025-04-30 * 2,020 1089.1 2.99% 0.38%
2025-01-31 2,070 1108.4 2.89% 0.37%
2024-10-31 * 2,113 1108.5 2.95% 0.37%
2024-07-31 2,129 1133.5 2.77% 0.33%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 * 2,171 1140.7 2.81% 0.4%
2024-01-31 2,185 1183.9 2.6% 0.32%
2023-10-31 2,235 1177.1 2.73% 0.33%
2023-07-31 2,284 1189.9 2.71% 0.35%
2023-04-30 * 2,294 1210.6 2.54% 0.33%
2023-01-31 2,295 1222.6 2.58% 0.29%
2022-10-31 2,353 1233.9 2.74% 0.35%
2022-07-31 2,364 1279.3 2.44% 0.29%
2022-04-30 2,376 1228.3 2.58% 0.37%
2022-01-31 2,393 1244.2 2.53% 0.28%
2021-10-31 2,395 1181.1 2.93% 0.4%
2021-07-31 2,402 1216.5 2.81% 0.33%
2021-04-30 2,358 1179 2.61% 0.3%
2021-01-31 2,374 1205.6 2.66% 0.41%
2020-10-31 2,332 1147.9 2.76% 0.33%
2020-07-31 2,337 1127 2.96% 0.45%
2020-04-30 2,339 1057 3.25% 0.4%
2020-01-31 2,355 1105.4 2.89% 0.34%
2019-10-31 2,352 1106.6 2.83% 0.34%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

4.69% collateral

SCZ's filing lists 2,074 positions including 4.69% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 321.5 effective holdings with a top ten of 7.14%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 1093 with a top ten of 2.7%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 2,073 positions in SCZ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.0.50%0.5%
2Resonac Holdings Corporation0.44%0.9%
3Mitsui Kinzoku Company, Limited0.44%1.4%
4AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR0.40%1.8%
5PLS GROUP LIMITED0.39%2.2%
6DIPLOMA PLC0.35%2.5%
7ENLIGHT RENEWABLE ENERGY LTD0.32%2.8%
8BEAZLEY PLC0.29%3.1%
9Accelleron Industries AG0.28%3.4%
10BLUESCOPE STEEL LIMITED0.26%3.7%
11WEIR GROUP PLC(THE)0.26%3.9%
12IMI PLC0.26%4.2%
13PSP Swiss Property AG0.25%4.4%
14GAZTRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZ SA0.25%4.7%
15Games Workshop Group PLC0.24%4.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of SCZ's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
Japan 36.14%
Australia 10.81%
United Kingdom 10.79%
Israel 5.22%
Sweden 4.71%
Switzerland 4.34%
Germany 3.78%
France 3.64%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SCZ's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

29.8%Last twelve months filed
77%Whole series, compounded
13.7%Best month
-17.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.23 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: SCZ.json · all funds.

Who borrows SCZ's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $592m was out to 22 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., held 37.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $220m 37.2%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $86m 14.6%
BofA Securities, Inc. $61m 10.4%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $51m 8.6%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $40m 6.7%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter SCZ has filed, with each borrower: SCZ.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

2,000 positions became 2,040: 83 added (3.1% of the fund at the later date), 43 dropped (2.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SCZ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.0.17%0.50% COFINIMMO SA0.11%0.02%
Mitsui Kinzoku Company, Limited0.21%0.44% ST. JAMES'S PLACE PLC0.31%0.24%
Resonac Holdings Corporation0.29%0.44% WEIR GROUP PLC(THE)0.32%0.26%
PLS GROUP LIMITED0.27%0.39% SEEK LIMITED0.15%0.10%
ENLIGHT RENEWABLE ENERGY LTD0.21%0.32% PERSIMMON PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY0.17%0.13%
AIXTRON SE0.07%0.17% AUTO1 Group SE0.12%0.08%

New: IMCD N.V. (0.19%), DCC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY (0.18%), EDENRED SE (0.17%), AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR (0.14%), ZEGONA COMMUNICATIONS PLC (0.12%), Trend Micro Incorporated (0.12%). Gone: Tower Semiconductor Ltd (0.42%), BAWAG Group AG (0.36%), Ibiden Co Ltd (0.36%), Shimizu Corp (0.25%), Italgas SpA (0.21%), Indra Sistemas SA (0.14%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC92.67%
short-term investment STIV4.52%
unknown unknown2.80%
derivative DE0.01%

12.8% of SCZ is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $14.39B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

96.34%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.96%Futures notional (3)
97.3%Sum, % of net assets

1 option positions filed, 0 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallPurchased02030-08-31as filed, not named

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SCZ (1093). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF 2,016 840.2 3.42% 2026-06-30
DFAS Dimensional U.S. Small Cap ETF 2,055 896.9 2.54% 2026-07-31
WSML iShares MSCI World Small-Cap ETF 3,520 929.3 4.51% 2026-05-31
DFIS Dimensional International Small Cap ETF 3,513 951.3 3.6% 2026-07-31
FNDC Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 1,582 971 3.66% 2026-05-31
GWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) International Small Cap ETF 2,045 1099.2 3% 2026-06-30
EWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF 3,358 1201 4.67% 2026-06-30
VSS Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund 4,861 1638.8 2.57% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine SCZ

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