ISCAX
Federated Hermes International Small-Mid Company Fund
Federated Hermes World Investment Series, Inc.
Expense ratio1
1.24%
Net assets2
$519.38M
Holdings2
153
Category
International Equity
2025 return3
34.02%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Jan. 26, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Funds investment objective is to provide long-term growth of capital.

Strategy. The Fund pursues its investment objective of long-term growth of capital by investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities issued by non-U.S. small- or mid-capitalization companies. The Funds investment adviser, Federated Global Investment Management Corp. (the Adviser), seeks to invest in companies whose stock the Adviser perceives as undervalued relative to their assets or attractively priced relative to their growth prospects. The Adviser, in actively managing the Funds portfolio, may emphasize business sectors or regions of the world in the Funds portfolio because they exhibit enhanced return opportunities. The Fund may invest in companies from both developed and emerging market countries. The Fund may hedge its currency risk by using derivatives such as futures or forward … The Fund pursues its investment objective of long-term growth of capital by investing at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities issued by non-U.S. small- or mid-capitalization companies. The Funds investment adviser, Federated Global Investment Management Corp. (the Adviser), seeks to invest in companies whose stock the Adviser perceives as undervalued relative to their assets or attractively priced relative to their growth prospects. The Adviser, in actively managing the Funds portfolio, may emphasize business sectors or regions of the world in the Funds portfolio because they exhibit enhanced return opportunities. The Fund may invest in companies from both developed and emerging market countries. The Fund may hedge its currency risk by using derivatives such as futures or forward contracts. The Fund may invest in depositary receipts, real estate investment trusts, derivative contracts (such as options, swaps and futures contracts) and hybrid investments (such as notes linked to underlying securities or indices) in order to implement its investment strategy. For example, the Fund may use derivative contracts or hybrid instruments to increase or decrease the portfolios exposure to the investment(s) underlying the derivative contract or hybrid instrument in an attempt to benefit from changes in the value of the underlying investment(s), to obtain premiums from the sale of derivative contracts, or to realize gains from trading a derivative contract. There can be no assurance that the Funds use of derivative contracts or hybrid instruments will work as intended. Derivative investments made by the Fund are included within the Funds 80% policy, as described below, and are calculated at market value. The Fund will invest its assets so that at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) are invested in small- or mid-capitalization companies. The Fund will notify shareholders at least 60 days in advance of any change in this investment policy. For purposes of this limitation, small- or mid-capitalization companies will normally be defined as companies with market capitalizations similar to the constituents of the Funds benchmark, the MSCI ACWI ex USA SMID Cap Index. As of November 30, 2025, the capitalization of companies included in the MSCI ACWI ex USA SMID Cap Index ranged from approximately $5 million to $40 billion. Such definition will be applied at the time of investment and the Adviser will not be required to sell a stock because a companys market capitalization has grown larger than the range of small- or mid-capitalization stocks in the MSCI ACWI ex USA SMID Cap Index.

Top holdings

As of Feb. 28, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
Federated Hermes Government Obligations Tax-Managed Fund, Institutional Class GOFXX $18.70M 3.60%
LUNDIN MINING CORP $10.83M 2.09%
KAWASAKI HVY IND $9.23M 1.78%
ALAMOS GOLD INC A $8.29M 1.60%
CAMECO CORP $6.74M 1.30%
ALMIRALL SA $6.24M 1.20%
ROHM CO LTD $5.89M 1.13%
HANWHA AEROSPACE $5.67M 1.09%
METSO OUTOTEC OY $5.64M 1.09%
SWEDISH ORPHAN B $5.49M 1.06%
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Allocation by sector

As of February 28, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Nov 30, 2025 → Feb 28, 2026
Opened
24
Exited
22
Increased
118
Decreased
7
Unchanged
4

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 November 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Federated Advisory Services Company Adviser
Federated Global Investment Management Corp. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of January 26, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of February 28, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. As reported in the fund's prospectus performance bar chart.

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