Foster 13F annual report

Foster is an investment fund managing more than $2.53 trillion ran by Kate Juelfs. There are currently 125 companies in Mrs. Juelfs’s portfolio. The largest investments include Vanguard Index Fds and Vanguard Bd Index Fds, together worth $726 billion.

Limited to 30 biggest holdings

$2.53 trillion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 23rd July 2024, Foster’s top holding is 2,782,347 shares of Vanguard Index Fds currently worth over $587 billion and making up 23.2% of the portfolio value. In addition, the fund holds 1,925,882 shares of Vanguard Bd Index Fds worth $139 billion. The third-largest holding is Dimensional Etf Trust worth $623 billion and the next is Vanguard Tax-managed Fds worth $125 billion, with 2,521,480 shares owned.

Currently, Foster's portfolio is worth at least $2.53 trillion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Foster

The Foster office and employees reside in West Des Moines, Iowa. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Kate Juelfs serves as the Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Operating Officer at Foster.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Foster revealed that it had opened a new position in Dimensional Etf Trust and bought 1,192,086 shares worth $31.5 billion.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in Vanguard Bd Index Fds by buying 85,197 additional shares. This makes their stake in Vanguard Bd Index Fds total 1,925,882 shares worth $139 billion.

On the other hand, there are companies that Foster is getting rid of from its portfolio. Foster closed its position in Invesco Exchange Traded Fd T on 30th July 2024. It sold the previously owned 6,853 shares for $414 million. Kate Juelfs also disclosed a decreased stake in Vanguard Index Fds by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $587 billion and 2,782,347 shares.

One of the largest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Foster are Amazon Com Inc and Route One Investment , L.P.. They manage $2.53 trillion and $2.53 trillion respectively.


Kate Juelfs investment strategy

Foster’s portfolio is diversified across 11 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Consumer Discretionary — making up 1.5% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 44.8% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 47% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only approximately 0.1% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $234 billion.

The complete list of Foster trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on July 30th based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
Vanguard Index Fds
4.19%
2,782,347
$586,654,210,000 23.23%
Vanguard Bd Index Fds
4.63%
1,925,882
$138,850,887,000 5.50%
Dimensional Etf Trust
147.33%
17,310,637
$622,712,355,000 24.66%
Vanguard Tax-managed Fds
6.92%
2,521,480
$124,611,532,000 4.93%
Vanguard Scottsdale Fds
4.77%
2,872,862
$172,004,522,000 6.81%
Ishares Tr
13.90%
5,874,105
$447,080,897,000 17.70%
American Centy Etf Tr
380.49%
1,172,562
$91,496,625,000 3.62%
Vanguard Mun Bd Fds
4.57%
854,874
$42,837,736,000 1.70%
Dimensional Etf Trust
Opened
1,192,086
$31,489,611,000 1.25%
Apple Inc
1.71%
147,028
$30,967,124,000 1.23%
Ishares U S Etf Tr
0.85%
485,717
$24,358,725,000 0.96%
Spdr Ser Tr
4.58%
698,740
$31,771,583,000 1.26%
Ishares Inc
3.06%
435,020
$23,392,253,000 0.93%
Microsoft Corporation
3.43%
22,615
$10,107,833,000 0.40%
Vanguard Intl Equity Index F
10.53%
245,382
$16,689,570,000 0.66%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
0.35%
19,021
$7,737,743,000 0.31%
Ovintiv Inc
No change
154,689
$7,250,273,000 0.29%
Spdr Dow Jones Indl Average
No change
15,500
$6,062,515,000 0.24%
American Express Co.
0.14%
25,883
$5,993,228,000 0.24%
Alphabet Inc
7.79%
25,409
$4,631,552,000 0.18%
Meta Platforms Inc
5.90%
8,219
$4,144,192,000 0.16%
NVIDIA Corp
866.70%
25,811
$3,188,684,000 0.13%
Schwab Strategic Tr
1.52%
344,416
$14,621,745,000 0.58%
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
0.24%
65,475
$3,106,134,000 0.12%
Wells Fargo Co New
7.27%
51,523
$3,059,951,000 0.12%
Deere Co
0.16%
7,976
$2,979,990,000 0.12%
Amazon.com Inc.
17.67%
14,021
$2,709,558,000 0.11%
Conocophillips
0.07%
20,644
$2,361,263,000 0.09%
Mcdonalds Corp
2.15%
9,221
$2,349,827,000 0.09%
Oracle Corp.
1.15%
16,359
$2,309,924,000 0.09%
Eli Lilly Co
43.45%
2,354
$2,131,529,000 0.08%
Caseys Gen Stores Inc
267.91%
5,504
$2,100,119,000 0.08%
Eaton Corp Plc
0.88%
6,502
$2,038,702,000 0.08%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
6.78%
17,427
$2,006,210,000 0.08%
Palantir Technologies Inc.
0.45%
72,242
$1,829,890,000 0.07%
Unitedhealth Group Inc
3.67%
3,531
$1,798,031,000 0.07%
Procter And Gamble Co
0.66%
10,194
$1,681,150,000 0.07%
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
0.63%
32,252
$1,567,447,000 0.06%
Abbvie Inc
2.00%
8,346
$1,431,455,000 0.06%
Johnson Johnson
5.22%
9,668
$1,413,051,000 0.06%
Jpmorgan Chase Co.
6.31%
6,819
$1,379,197,000 0.05%
Fedex Corp
0.05%
4,305
$1,290,844,000 0.05%
Pepsico Inc
0.52%
6,741
$1,111,860,000 0.04%
Walmart Inc
5.11%
16,197
$1,096,712,000 0.04%
Sp Global Inc
1.13%
2,240
$999,045,000 0.04%
Principal Financial Group In
1.69%
12,622
$990,202,000 0.04%
Tesla Inc
2.83%
4,941
$977,725,000 0.04%
Philip Morris International Inc
6.41%
8,912
$903,045,000 0.04%
Trane Technologies plc
0.33%
2,740
$901,268,000 0.04%
Costco Whsl Corp New
6.25%
1,037
$881,679,000 0.03%
Vanguard World Fd
0.01%
11,867
$1,194,045,000 0.05%
Pfizer Inc.
2.15%
29,027
$812,177,000 0.03%
Visa Inc
4.97%
2,894
$759,667,000 0.03%
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg Ltd
1.36%
4,317
$750,338,000 0.03%
Mondelez International Inc.
1.41%
11,383
$744,894,000 0.03%
Broadcom Inc
12.25%
458
$735,105,000 0.03%
Best Buy Co. Inc.
0.14%
8,588
$723,883,000 0.03%
Abbott Labs
3.48%
6,792
$705,791,000 0.03%
Disney Walt Co
1.66%
7,044
$699,399,000 0.03%
Cisco Sys Inc
7.78%
13,240
$629,055,000 0.02%
Home Depot, Inc.
5.80%
1,752
$603,053,000 0.02%
Chevron Corp.
6.11%
3,735
$584,229,000 0.02%
Boeing Co.
11.86%
3,041
$553,492,000 0.02%
West Bancorporation
No change
30,767
$550,729,000 0.02%
Corteva Inc
28.35%
9,842
$530,873,000 0.02%
Spdr Sp 500 Etf Tr
37.11%
939
$510,820,000 0.02%
Target Corp
7.61%
3,387
$501,411,000 0.02%
Yum Brands Inc.
0.05%
3,747
$496,328,000 0.02%
Old Rep Intl Corp
No change
15,863
$490,162,000 0.02%
Altria Group Inc.
6.11%
10,316
$469,877,000 0.02%
AMGEN Inc.
0.77%
1,444
$451,289,000 0.02%
Cardinal Health, Inc.
0.24%
4,543
$446,668,000 0.02%
General Mls Inc
1.20%
7,060
$446,610,000 0.02%
Merck Co Inc
11.36%
3,559
$440,584,000 0.02%
Att Inc
5.20%
21,999
$420,407,000 0.02%
GE Aerospace
0.42%
2,634
$418,650,000 0.02%
Invesco Exchange Traded Fd T
Closed
6,853
$414,059,000
Hershey Company
4.21%
2,231
$410,076,000 0.02%
Bank America Corp
13.45%
10,184
$405,037,000 0.02%
Mastercard Incorporated
13.33%
901
$397,672,000 0.02%
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
0.39%
4,608
$362,788,000 0.01%
Lowes Cos Inc
17.31%
1,634
$360,164,000 0.01%
Spdr Gold Tr
No change
1,639
$352,401,000 0.01%
Nike, Inc.
13.35%
4,626
$348,662,000 0.01%
Lennox International Inc
No change
641
$342,922,000 0.01%
Netflix Inc.
11.67%
507
$342,164,000 0.01%
Coca-Cola Co
21.97%
5,369
$341,733,000 0.01%
International Business Machs
5.10%
1,958
$338,654,000 0.01%
Standard Mtr Prods Inc
0.22%
12,000
$332,760,000 0.01%
Schwab Strategic Tr
Opened
4,914
$329,140,000 0.01%
Fidelity Natl Information Sv
0.95%
4,360
$328,575,000 0.01%
Caterpillar Inc.
1.34%
984
$327,711,000 0.01%
Applied Matls Inc
6.78%
1,371
$323,528,000 0.01%
Intel Corp.
Closed
7,232
$319,432,000
Honeywell International Inc
0.34%
1,480
$316,032,000 0.01%
Novo-nordisk A S
1.78%
2,173
$310,174,000 0.01%
Asml Holding N V
1.01%
299
$305,796,000 0.01%
United Microelectronics Corp
0.73%
34,769
$304,576,000 0.01%
Workiva Inc
0.02%
4,072
$297,215,000 0.01%
Albemarle Corp.
4.10%
3,047
$291,049,000 0.01%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
1.71%
6,787
$281,845,000 0.01%
Ames Natl Corp
0.83%
13,653
$279,747,000 0.01%
Adobe Inc
13.09%
501
$278,326,000 0.01%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
1.08%
2,808
$272,450,000 0.01%
Linde Plc.
7.27%
620
$272,062,000 0.01%
Accenture Plc Ireland
13.94%
889
$269,731,000 0.01%
Vanguard Star Fds
0.05%
4,438
$267,599,000 0.01%
Verizon Communications Inc
Closed
6,355
$266,662,000
Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd
4.63%
6,760
$261,004,000 0.01%
Automatic Data Processing In
0.09%
1,066
$254,528,000 0.01%
Salesforce Inc
0.41%
986
$253,504,000 0.01%
United Airls Hldgs Inc
0.12%
5,125
$249,383,000 0.01%
Vanguard Index Fds
Closed
1,082
$247,340,000
HDFC Bank Ltd.
Opened
3,841
$247,092,000 0.01%
Shell Plc
2.03%
3,370
$243,247,000 0.01%
Ingersoll Rand Inc.
1.60%
2,669
$242,452,000 0.01%
America Movil Sab De Cv
0.15%
14,150
$240,550,000 0.01%
Wisdomtree Tr
0.19%
6,304
$233,822,000 0.01%
Rockwell Automation Inc
0.24%
838
$230,685,000 0.01%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
0.50%
1,386
$224,823,000 0.01%
Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Opened
8,840
$222,768,000 0.01%
Invesco Exch Traded Fd Tr Ii
Closed
2,769
$222,132,000
BP plc
Closed
5,869
$221,133,000
Schwab Strategic Tr
Closed
2,698
$219,698,000
Duke Energy Corp.
1.53%
2,183
$218,847,000 0.01%
Starbucks Corp.
7.64%
2,804
$218,281,000 0.01%
Us Bancorp Del
2.84%
5,464
$216,906,000 0.01%
Comcast Corp New
7.85%
5,538
$216,886,000 0.01%
Sap SE
No change
1,044
$210,585,000 0.01%
Rivian Automotive, Inc.
21.38%
13,182
$176,902,000 0.01%
Wipro Ltd.
6.20%
28,114
$171,495,000 0.01%
Mitsubishi Ufj Finl Group In
Opened
10,002
$108,022,000 0.00%
Standard Lithium Ltd
Closed
23,200
$27,376,000
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