Domini International Social Equity Fund

Institutional Shares Overview

The Domini International Social Equity Fund helps you access a world of investment opportunity, while using your investment dollars to encourage corporate responsibility. Investments in companies across Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and throughout the rest of the world let you take advantage of broad international diversification with the convenience of one mutual fund.

Download a Prospectus in PDF.

Fund Highlights
All data as of 3/31/2013 unless otherwise noted.
Symbol: DOMOX
Fund Type
Diversified mid- to large-cap international stocks, socially screened.
Inception Date:
Fund: 12/27/2006
Share class: 11/30/2012
Initial Sales Fee

None (no-load)
Fund Net Assets
$176.8 Million
Expense Ratio1
1.27% annually
Dividends
Semi-annually
Capital Gains
Annually
Minimum Initial Investment
$1 million*
Newspaper Listings
N/A
CUSIP Number
257132811

Investment Objective
The Fund seeks to provide its shareholders with long-term total return.

Investment Strategy
The Fund invests primarily in stocks of companies in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and throughout the rest of the world that meet Domini Social Investments’ social and environmental standards.

Subject to these standards, Wellington Management Company, LLP, the Fund’s subadvisor, seeks to add value using a diversified quantitative stock selection approach, while managing risk through portfolio construction.  

Management
Investment Advisor and Sponsor: Domini Social Investments LLC.

Subadvisor: Wellington Management Company, LLP.

Shareholder Activism
The Fund seeks to use its position as a shareholder to raise issues of social and environmental performance with corporate management.

Social and Environmental Standards                 Domini evaluates the Fund’s potential investments against its social and environmental standards based on the businesses in which they engage, as well as on the quality of their relations with key stakeholders, including communities, customers, ecosystems, employees, investors, and suppliers.

Domini may determine that a security is eligible for investment even if a corporation’s profile reflects a mixture of positive and negative social and environmental characteristics.

Investor Profile
Who Should Invest:

  • The Institutional share class of the Domini International Social Equity Fund is available to investors that meet the minimum investment requirements, have been approved by the distributor, and fall within the following categories: endowments, foundations, religious organizations and other nonprofit entities, individuals, retirement plan sponsors, family office clients, private trusts, certain corporate or similar institutions, or omnibus accounts maintained by financial intermediaries.**
  • Investors seeking long-term growth of capital.
  • Investors committed to the Fund’s socially responsible investment standards.

Who Should Not Invest:

  • Investors unwilling or unable to accept moderate to significant fluctuations in share price.
1. Until November 30, 2013, the Fund's Manager has contractually agreed to waive certain fees and/or reimburse certain expenses, including management fees, so that expenses paid by the Fund will not exceed, on a per annum basis, 1.27% of its average daily net assets representing Institutional shares, absent an earlier modification by the Board of Trustees, which oversees the Funds.
 
*Investors may meet the minimum initial investment amount by aggregating up to three separate accounts within the Institutional share class of a Fund.
 
**Accounts will not be established for omnibus or other accounts for which Domini provides recordkeeping and other shareholder services or for which the Fund is required to pay any type of administrative payment per participant account.
 

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The Domini International Social Equity Fund is not insured and is subject to market risks. Investing internationally involves special risks, such as currency fluctuations, social and economic instability, differing securities regulations and accounting standards, limited public information, possible changes in taxation, and periods of illiquidity. You may lose money. Although the Fund’s Investor shares are no-load, certain fees and expenses apply to a continued investment and are described in the prospectus. The composition of the Fund’s portfolio is subject to change.

The Domini Funds maintain portfolio holdings disclosure policies that govern the timing and circumstances of disclosure to shareholders and third parties of information regarding the portfolio investments held by the Funds.

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