Touchstone Strategic Trust-Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund
Actively managed emerging-markets stock fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Touchstone Strategic Trust-Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund held 47 positions with $2.45B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 55.0% of the fund. The TSEMX share class costs 1.16% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, TSEMX returned 29.7%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 5 new positions and exited 3.
The Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in equity securities of companies in emerging or frontier markets, selected through bottom-up research by sub-adviser Sands Capital Management based on sustainable earnings growth, competitive advantages, financial strength, and rational valuation; ESG factors are considered where material to long-term value creation. The fund is non-diversified and may hold a significant percentage of assets in a single company. Because the fund holds a portfolio of 30 to 50 issuers chosen by the sub-adviser's security selection process, performance depends on those picks.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TSMWFTAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD | 13.02% | $318.64M | 4.0M | $78.89 |
SSNLFSAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD | 12.16% | $297.56M | 1.3M | $221.90 |
SK HYNIX INC | 6.45% | $157.95M | 89.5K | $1,764.58 |
SK SQUARE CO LTD | 5.12% | $125.30M | 110.8K | $1,130.86 |
TCTZFTENCENT HOLDINGS LTD | 3.59% | $87.85M | 1.6M | $55.18 |
MELIMERCADOLIBRE INC | 3.31% | $80.95M | 47.7K | $1,697.39 |
BAJAJ FINANCE LTD | 3.04% | $74.54M | 7.0M | $10.64 |
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD | 2.85% | $69.88M | 1.2M | $58.13 |
NUNU HOLDINGS LTD | 2.73% | $66.77M | 5.0M | $13.36 |
DELTA ELECTRONICS INC | 2.68% | $65.69M | 1.0M | $62.80 |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
All 47 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 | 98.89% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.35% |
How it has done
TSEMX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 19.95%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is 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 5 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16% | +29.74% | +56.34% | -4.56% | -10.73% | |
| 1.05% | +29.95% | +56.86% | -4.13% | -10.74% | |
| 1.44% | +29.41% | +54.99% | -6.00% | -10.77% | |
| 2.14% | +28.51% | +51.75% | -9.37% | -10.93% | |
| 1.01% | +30.05% | +57.10% | -3.94% | -10.74% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.43pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.09pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Touchstone Strategic Trust-Touchstone Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth Fund is an actively managed emerging-markets equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- Emerging markets
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Non-diversified
- Expense ratio, by class
- 1.01% – 2.14%· TSEMX 1.16%
- Portfolio turnover
- 21.00% a year · as of 2025 Q3
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.
5 new
3 exited
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