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Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry Overview

Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry (EEOFX) is an actively managed International Equity Global Small/Mid Stock fund. Pear Tree Funds launched the fund in 2017.

The investment seeks long-term growth of capital. Under normal market conditions, fund invests at least 80 percent of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of clean-tech companies. A clean-tech company is a company that the fund’s sub-adviser believes provides leading technology solutions to solve environmental challenges, primarily focusing on climate change. The fund invests in companies across all market capitalizations, although the advisor expects most to be small- and mid-cap companies.

About Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry (EEOFX)

There are 2 members of the management team with an average tenure of 8.83 years: William Page (2017), Robert Uek (2017). Management tenure is more important for actively managed funds than passive index funds.

The fund has 1 primary benchmark: MSCI World NR USD index with a weighting of 100%. Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has 40 securities in its portfolio. The top 10 holdings constitute 37.3% of the fund’s assets. The fund meets the SEC requirement of being classified as a diversified fund. The fund is considered to have an ESG focus with its investment selection and management.

Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry is part of the Equity global asset class and is within the International Equity fund group. Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has 29.5% of its portfolio invested in foreign issues. The overall assets allocated to domestic stock is 69.2%. There is 29.5% allocated to foreign stock, and 0.0% is allocated to preferred stocks. The bond allocation as a percentage of total assets is 0.0% (0.0% domestic bond, 0.0% foreign bond and 0.0% convertible bond). Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has 1.0% of the portfolio in cash.

Assets Under Management

The fund has $748 million in total assets, which is below the $865 million average for the Global Small/Mid Stock category. Normally, lower assets under management translates to higher average expense ratios, and greater total assets are desired. However, for some investment categories, such as small-cap investing, it may be difficult for the manager to fully employ the desired active strategy if assets grow too large or too quickly.

EEOFX Performance and Fees

The expense ratio measures how much of a fund’s assets are used for administrative expenses and operating expenses, including adviser fees and fees for the transfer agent and custodial services. The Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry expense ratio is high compared to funds in the Global Small/Mid Stock category. Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has an expense ratio of 1.24%, which is 1% lower than its category average, making the fund expense ratio grade a C. While it is difficult to predict returns, it is known that high annual expense ratios reduce your rate of return, and excessive fees are difficult to overcome. Active management normally comes with higher expense ratios than passive index management. Certain investment categories such as small company and foreign also normally have higher expense ratios. It is best to compare fund expense ratios against the category averages for meaningful assessments.

High portfolio turnover can translate to higher expenses and lower aftertax returns. Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has a portfolio turnover rate of 56%, indicating that holds its assets around 0.0 years. By way of comparison, the average portfolio turnover is 56% for the Global Small/Mid Stock category.

Recently, in the month of June 2026, Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry returned -4.2%, which earned it a grade of F, as the Global Small/Mid Stock category had an average return of 1.2%. The letter grades of A, B, C, D and F are based upon relative rankings within the investment category. A grade of A, for example, would indicate that the return is in the highest 20% for that time period compared to all funds in that category.

Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry has a trailing yield of 0.00%, which is below the 1.34% category average. The fund normally distributes its income annually.

It’s natural to seek the best-performing investments, but you must consider the relationship between risk and return and the impact of costs and taxes on your realized returns.

Pear Tree Essex Environmental Opps Odnry Grades

Year to date, the fund has returned 24.4%, 11.1 percentage points better than the category, which translates into a grade of A. The fund has returned 43.0% over the past year (grade of A), 11.4% over the past three years (grade of C) and 1.5% per year over the past five years (grade of D).

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