Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund
Actively managed U.S. stock fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund held 385 positions with $3.89B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 11.8% of the fund. The TISEX share class costs 0.4% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, TISEX returned 43.5%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q3 it added 101 new positions and exited 81.
The Fund seeks a favorable long-term total return, mainly through capital appreciation, primarily from equity securities of smaller domestic companies.
The fund uses proprietary quantitative models to select small-cap stocks from the Russell 2000 Index universe, scoring securities on valuation, earnings prospects, price trends, and other factors to build a portfolio expected to outperform the benchmark while managing relative risk. Because the fund's returns depend on the quality of its stock-picking models and market conditions may affect securities in ways those models do not anticipate, performance relative to the index is not assured.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2.90% | $112.87M | 398.3K | $283.36 | |
SANMSanmina Corp | 1.20% | $46.63M | 214.1K | $217.82 |
1.16% | $45.22M | 379.6K | $119.13 | |
1.09% | $42.63M | 269.4K | $158.22 | |
CME E-mini Russell 2000 Index Futures | 1.01% | $39.31M | — | — |
FNFabrinet | 0.99% | $38.70M | 56.6K | $683.47 |
0.98% | $38.10M | 73.9K | $515.62 | |
RMBSRambus Inc | 0.88% | $34.33M | 298.2K | $115.11 |
FORMFormFactor Inc | 0.82% | $32.08M | 236.0K | $135.93 |
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY | 0.81% | $31.48M | — | — |
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.
The 200 largest of 385 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 | 98.94% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.81% |
| Derivatives | 1.01% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
By sector
- Health Care
- 19.4%
- Financials
- 17.4%
- Industrials
- 16.6%
- Information Technology
- 13.5%
- 10 other sectors
- 33.1%
- Health Care
- 19.4%
- Financials
- 17.4%
- Industrials
- 16.6%
- Information Technology
- 13.5%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 7.4%
- Real Estate
- 6.3%
- Energy
- 4.8%
- Other
- 3.5%
- Communication Services
- 3.3%
- Materials
- 3.1%
- Utilities
- 1.9%
- Consumer Staples
- 1.8%
- Cash
- 0.9%
- Government
- 0.1%
How it has done
TISEX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 14.27%. 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 6 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.40% | +43.47% | +87.79% | +65.73% | -16.99% | |
| 0.74% | +43.08% | +86.14% | +63.30% | -17.10% | |
| 0.65% | +43.09% | +86.32% | +63.59% | -17.08% | |
| 0.55% | +43.21% | +86.92% | +64.42% | -17.03% | |
| 0.46% | +43.33% | +87.55% | +65.22% | -16.98% | |
| 0.00% | +44.11% | +90.12% | +69.20% | -16.88% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.90pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.18pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Nuveen Quant Small Cap Equity Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund. 33% of TISEX’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 93% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.00% – 0.74%· TISEX 0.40%
- Portfolio turnover
- 76.00% 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.
101 new· the largest 8
81 exited· the largest 8
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