How can I see the holdings of a mutual fund?
I'd like to be a socially responsible investor. I'd like to be able to blacklist certain companies that I feel are violators of my own social beliefs. cough monsanto cough.
I'm finding it to be difficult to see what holdings different mutual funds have. I'd assume that this information is proprietary in the same way that you wouldn't give the recipe of your profitable cake to your rival baker.
I know there are sites that will show you the top 5 (or 10) holdings, but they never give you a full list of all of the holdings.
Is there any way to see all of the holdings a mutual fund has?
Are those top 5 (or 10) holdings predicted and generated using complex mathematical models?
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Within reason, I find that it's usually possible to find out the full holdings a mutual fund has. What I mean by this is that you can't go and find out a perfectly up-to-date measurement, on demand, all the time.
However, you can go and pull a fund's prospectus and it will disclose (a) its investment strategy, and (b) its holdings. For example, I own some holdings in SHRAX, which is a mutual fund. You can find its holdings as of Sept. 30, 2013 on the company's website here.
You can find something similar--just a different format--for VNQ, a Vanguard Real Estate ETF/Mutual Fund here. (I don't own this one... yet.)
I get what you're saying about the 'secret' sauce vs. full disclosure concept. But I'm pretty sure that only listing the top 5 or 10 holdings has more to do simplifying information. By the math, movements in the largest holdings will have the biggest impact on the change in value of a single share of the fund overall.
It may even be a legal requirement (at least in the US) to make disclosures about the full holdings available every quarter. Maybe someone else can speak to that.
One thing to keep in mind is that what a fund holds today, might not be what it holds in the future. If one of your blacklisted companies is now held would you redeem the fund? This could be expensive.
While there are socially conscious funds, another option would be for you to invest directly with companies that you feel comfortable. DRIPS are a great way to do this as most are low cost.
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