CSQIX
Mast Multialternative Strategy Fund
Investment Managers Series Trust III
Expense ratio1
0.85%
Net assets2
$203.69M
Holdings2
46
Category
Other
2025 return3
0.97%

Investment objective & strategy

As of March 5, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Mast Multialternative Strategy Fund (the Fund) seeks positive absolute returns.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by utilizing a macro -aware investment process to allocate capital across a range of investment strategies. The Fund may invest in a broad range of instruments, including equities, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), other mutual funds, exchange -traded funds (ETFs), including mutual funds and ETFs managed by the Advisor, warrants, bonds (both investment grade and below investment grade (commonly referred to as high yield securities or junk bonds)), currencies, commodities, futures, exchange -traded and over -the-counter put and call options (both covered and uncovered) and total return and excess return swaps. The Fund may invest in such instruments directly, indirectly through fund of funds arrangements, or, in the … The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by utilizing a macro -aware investment process to allocate capital across a range of investment strategies. The Fund may invest in a broad range of instruments, including equities, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), other mutual funds, exchange -traded funds (ETFs), including mutual funds and ETFs managed by the Advisor, warrants, bonds (both investment grade and below investment grade (commonly referred to as high yield securities or junk bonds)), currencies, commodities, futures, exchange -traded and over -the-counter put and call options (both covered and uncovered) and total return and excess return swaps. The Fund may invest in such instruments directly, indirectly through fund of funds arrangements, or, in the case of commodities and certain commodity -linked instruments, indirectly, by investing in its wholly -owned subsidiary organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiary) which invests in such commodities and commodity -linked instruments. When used in this Prospectus, the term Fund includes the Subsidiary and the term invest includes investments the Fund makes directly, through the Subsidiary, and through acquired funds. The Fund also may invest in cash and cash equivalents. As a result of the Funds use of derivatives, the Fund may hold significant amounts of high -quality , short -term securities, including U.S. Treasuries, shares of money market funds and repurchase agreements. The Fund may also invest in high -yield securities to earn income, as well as to achieve its investment objective. The Fund may invest in bonds of any maturity and duration. The Fund may invest globally (including in emerging markets) and there are no geographic limits on the Funds holdings. The Funds advisor primarily, but not exclusively, allocates the Funds assets to strategies which take directional positions (i.e. , positions that depend upon an up or down price move in an instrument or market for success) and/or relative value positions ( i.e. , positions that depend on price relationships between various instruments or markets and seek to profit from pricing inefficiencies) through long and/or short exposures in instruments across all major asset classes. The instruments in which the Fund may invest may be U.S. dollar or non -U .S. dollar denominated. The Fund may have exposure to issuers of any size and credit quality. The percentage of the Funds portfolio exposed to an asset class and geographic region will vary from time to time. The Fund intends to engage in active and frequent trading. The Funds advisor utilizes a process -driven approach that blends its proprietary quantitative techniques with disciplined oversight in an effort to deliver positive absolute returns. The advisors investment process begins with statistical research and fundamental analysis of various investment strategies spanning all major public markets. The advisor applies its proprietary quantitative models to arrive at a subset of liquid investment strategies that the advisor believes are suitable for the Fund. These investment strategies include, among others, those that are Fundamental, which focus on price and relative price determinants such as measures of carry ( i.e., the yield differences between one instrument and another) and appraisal of fair value, and Tactical, which focus on market structure and the behavior of market agents including lead -lag effects ( i.e., time dependent correlation relationships), liquidity provisioning and buffering, and positioning dynamics ( i.e., exposure patterns or sensitivities). The advisor also employs macroeconomic and probabilistic modeling to guide its allocation decisions and select investments that the advisor believes will promote the maintenance of a balanced and efficient Fund risk profile by explicitly considering how the evolution of markets and the behavior of market participants impact the performance and interaction of strategies. The Fund may sell call options pursuant to which the purchaser pays the Fund a premium in exchange for the right to purchase the security underlying the option at a specified price (the strike price) within a specified time period or at a specified future date. The call options the Fund sells may either be covered ( i.e. , where the Fund holds the underlying security) or uncovered ( i.e. , where the Fund does not hold the underlying security). The seller of an uncovered call option assumes the risk of a theoretically unlimited increase in the market price of the underlying security above the strike price of the option, and thus the sellers potential for loss is unlimited. The Fund will primarily gain exposure to commodities and commodity -linked instruments through investments in the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary will invest in (long and short) commodity -linked futures and swaps, as well as certain money market instruments, including U.S. government securities, money market fund shares, repurchase agreements and other high -quality , short -term fixed income instruments. The primary purpose of the money market instruments held by the Subsidiary will be to serve as collateral for the Subsidiarys derivative positions; however, these instruments may also earn income for the Subsidiary. In addition, the Subsidiary may also invest in exchange -traded products that are listed and traded on U.S. exchanges and primarily hold crypto assets (i.e., bitcoin, ether, or other cryptocurrencies) (Crypto Asset ETPs) and futures contracts linked to crypto assets (Crypto Asset Futures). Crypto assets (also referred to as cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies, and digital currencies) are digital assets that are designed to act as a medium of exchange. Crypto assets are not issued by a government, bank, or central organization, and they exist via online, peer -to-peer computer networks that host public transaction ledgers where transfers are recorded on a blockchain. The Fund, through the Subsidiary, may have exposure to crypto assets equal to up to 10% of the Funds net assets. The Subsidiary is managed by the advisor and has the same investment objective as the Fund. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary. Investment in the Subsidiary is expected to provide the Fund with commodity and crypto assets exposure within the limitations of the U.S. federal tax requirements that apply to regulated investment companies. Investments in other funds managed by the Funds advisor may provide the Fund with exposure to other securities and financial instruments in addition to commodities and commodity -linked instruments. The Fund is non -diversified , meaning that a relatively high percentage of its assets may be invested in a limited number of issuers of securities.

Top holdings

As of Jan. 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
UMB Money Market Special II SMMFIDU $86.37M 42.40%
Zywave_Pfd Equity ZURN SW $6.52M 3.20%
Zywave_Pfd Equity ZURN SW $6.48M 3.18%
WI TREASURY SEC. 0.000000% 02/19/2026 B $5.99M 2.94%
WIB 0 03/19/26 B $5.97M 2.93%
U.S. Treasury Bills B $5.96M 2.92%
UST BILLS 0% 05/14/2026 $5.94M 2.92%
Zywave_Pfd Equity ZURN SW $5.91M 2.90%
REV GROUP INC $5.01M 2.46%
COMERICA INC $4.81M 2.36%
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Allocation by sector

As of January 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Oct 31, 2025 → Jan 31, 2026
Opened
20
Exited
29
Increased
12
Decreased
8
Unchanged
6

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of October 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
UBS Asset Management (Americas) LLC Adviser
Manteio Scalable Technologies LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of March 5, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of January 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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