| Geographic Diversification as of August 31, 2015 (as a percentage of net assets) | |
| | | | | |
| United States | | | 49.8% | |
| Japan | | | 9.5% | |
| France | | | 5.9% | |
| Netherlands | | | 4.8% | |
| Germany | | | 4.3% | |
| China | | | 3.4% | |
| Sweden | | | 2.8% | |
| Switzerland | | | 2.5% | |
| India | | | 2.4% | |
| Australia | | | 2.0% | |
| Countries between 1.0% – 1.9%^ | | | 10.5% | |
| Assets in Excess of Other Liabilities* | | | 2.1% | |
| Net Assets | | | 100.0% | |
| * Includes short-term investments. | |
| ^
Includes 8 countries, which each represents 1.0% – 1.9% of net assets. | |
| Portfolio holdings are subject to change daily. | |
Voya Infrastructure, Industrials and Materials Fund (the “Fund”) seeks total return through a combination of current income, capital gains and capital appreciation.
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in companies that own and/or operate infrastructure facilities in the infrastructure sector, and in a broad range of companies, principally in the industrials and materials sectors, that the Sub-Adviser believes will benefit from the building, renovation, expansion and utilization of infrastructure.
Portfolio Management: The Fund is managed by Martin Jansen, Brian Madonick, Joseph Vultaggio, Jody Hrazanek and Paul Zemsky, Portfolio Managers, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC — the Sub-Adviser.*
Equity Portfolio Construction: Under normal market conditions, the Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its managed assets in the equity securities of, or derivatives having economic characteristics similar to the equity securities of, issuers in three broad market sectors — infrastructure, industrials and materials.
The Sub-Adviser seeks to construct a diversified equity portfolio of 60 to 100 equity securities, with a focus on companies that will potentially benefit from increased government and private spending in six areas: power, construction, materials, food and water, communications and transportation.
The Sub-Adviser has constructed a broad universe of approximately 1,500 global companies that operate in industries which are related to its six investment areas. The Sub-Adviser will seek to identify, through bottom-up fundamental research, companies that it believes to be undervalued relative to their business fundamentals and outlook, and whose revenues or growth in revenues are driven by infrastructure spending.
| Top Ten Holdings as of August 31, 2015* (as a percentage of net assets) | |
| | | | | |
| General Electric Co. | | | 3.5% | |
| Siemens AG | | | 2.7% | |
| General Dynamics Corp. | | | 2.4% | |
| Honeywell International, Inc. | | | 2.4% | |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. | | | 2.3% | |
| United Technologies Corp. | | | 2.3% | |
| Union Pacific Corp. | | | 2.3% | |
| Dow Chemical Co. | | | 2.0% | |
| BHP Billiton Ltd. | | | 2.0% | |
| Enel S.p.A. | | | 1.9% | |
| * Excludes short-term investments. | |
| Portfolio holdings are subject to change daily. | |
The Sub-Adviser seeks to invest in companies with the following characteristics:
1. Good growth prospects;
2. Resilient earnings potential across market cycles;
3. Disciplined capital allocation management; and
4. Strong competitive position.
Options Strategy: Under normal market conditions the Fund will also seek to secure gains and enhance the stability of returns over a market cycle by writing (selling) call options on selected indices and/or exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”).
The underlying value against which such calls will be written may vary depending on the cash flow requirements of the portfolio and on the Sub-Adviser’s assessment of market conditions, generally within a range of 15% to 50%.
The Fund expects to write (sell) call options primarily with shorter maturities (typically ten days to three months until expiration) generally, “at-the-money,” “out-of-the-money” or “near-the-money,” in exchange-listed option markets or over-the-counter markets with major international banks, broker-dealers and financial institutions. The Fund may also write (sell) call options on either the value of subsets of stocks in its portfolio or selected equity securities held in its portfolio.
Performance: Based on net asset value (“NAV”), the Fund provided a total return of -8.39% for the period ended August 31, 2015.(1) This NAV return reflects a decrease in the Fund’s NAV from $17.19 on February 28, 2015 to $14.92 on August 31, 2015, after taking into account the quarterly distributions. Based on its share price, the Fund provided a total return of -15.99% for the period ended August 31, 2015.(1) This share price return reflects a decrease in the Fund’s share price from $15.73 on February 28, 2015 to $12.52 on August 31, 2015, after taking into account the quarterly distributions. The Fund is not benchmarked to an index but uses the MSCI All Country World IndexSM as a reference index, which returned -7.18% for the reporting period. During the period, the Fund made quarterly distributions totaling $0.81 per share, which were characterized as $0.07 per share of net realized gain, $0.55 per share return of capital and $0.19 per share of net investment income.(2) As of August 31, 2015, the Fund had 19,805,000 shares outstanding.