Eaton Vance Emerging and Frontier Countries Equity Fund
Actively managed U.S. stock fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Eaton Vance Emerging and Frontier Countries Equity Fund held 1 positions with $3.72B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 100.0% of the fund. The EACOX share class costs 1.4% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, EACOX returned 49.6%, with dividends reinvested.
The Funds investment objective is total return.
The fund invests substantially all its assets through a separate registered investment company (the Portfolio) and employs a top-down macroeconomic approach to construct country-level and sector equity exposures in emerging and frontier markets, with up to 20% in developed markets and up to 20% in income investments. The investment sub-adviser, which makes day-to-day decisions, uses index derivatives and equity securities to target countries with strengthening macro indicators while considering financially material ESG factors when relevant. The fund may concentrate up to 35% of assets in a single industry if that industry represents more than 20% of its blended benchmark index, and as of January 2026 held 31.2% in banking. Because the fund does not set particular exposure levels to any index and constructs positions through both securities and derivatives, its holdings and returns may diverge from any benchmark.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Macro Capital Opportunities Portfolio | 100.01% | $3.72B | 170.8M | $21.79 |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
All 1 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 91.51% |
| Cash & short-term | 4.81% |
| Bonds | 0.28% |
| Derivatives | -0.04% |
Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified.
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
How it has done
EACOX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 20.10%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 and Jul 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.40% | +49.60% | +112.93% | +105.34% | -11.03% | |
| 1.15% | +49.93% | +114.38% | +107.94% | -11.03% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 2.60pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.52pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Eaton Vance Emerging and Frontier Countries Equity Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Master-feeder
- Expense ratio, by class
- 1.15% – 1.40%· EACOX 1.40%
- Portfolio turnover
- 54.00% a year · as of 2026 Q1
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
New and exited totals aren’t verifiable for this fund.
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