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Discovery Portfolio
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL FUND TRUST
Expense ratio1
1.03%
Net assets2
$742.83M
Holdings2
41
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
13.72%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Jan. 28, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Discovery Portfolio (the Fund) seeks long-term capital growth.

Strategy. Under normal circumstances, the Adviser seeks to achieve the Funds investment objective by investing primarily in established and emerging companies, with capitalizations within the range of companies included in the Russell Midcap Growth Index, which as of December 31, 2025, ranged between $1.6 billion and $101.9 billion. The Adviser emphasizes a bottom-up stock selection process, seeking attractive investments on an individual company basis. The Adviser typically invests in unique companies it believes have sustainable competitive advantages with above average business visibility, the ability to deploy capital at high rates of return, strong balance sheets and an attractive risk/reward. The Adviser typically focuses a significant portion of the Funds investments in a limited number of issuers, which may be in the … Under normal circumstances, the Adviser seeks to achieve the Funds investment objective by investing primarily in established and emerging companies, with capitalizations within the range of companies included in the Russell Midcap Growth Index, which as of December 31, 2025, ranged between $1.6 billion and $101.9 billion. The Adviser emphasizes a bottom-up stock selection process, seeking attractive investments on an individual company basis. The Adviser typically invests in unique companies it believes have sustainable competitive advantages with above average business visibility, the ability to deploy capital at high rates of return, strong balance sheets and an attractive risk/reward. The Adviser typically focuses a significant portion of the Funds investments in a limited number of issuers, which may be in the same industry, sector or geographic region. The Adviser actively integrates sustainability into the investment process by using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as a lens for additional fundamental research, which can contribute to investment decision-making. The Adviser seeks to understand how environmental and social initiatives within companies can create value by strengthening durable competitive advantages, creating growth opportunities, driving profitability and/or aligning with secular growth trends. The Adviser generally engages with company management teams to discuss their ESG practices, with the aim of identifying how sustainability themes present opportunities and risks that can be material to the value of the security over the long-term. Other aspects of the investment process include a proprietary, systematic evaluation of governance policies, specifically focusing on compensation alignment on long- term value creation. Although consideration of ESG factors is incorporated into the investment process, it is only one of many tools the Adviser utilizes to make investment decisions. The Fund may invest in equity securities. The Fund may also invest in privately placed and restricted securities. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in securities of foreign issuers, including issuers located in emerging market or developing countries. The securities in which the Fund may invest may be denominated in U.S. dollars or in currencies other than U.S. dollars.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
CLOUDFLARE INC-A $105.82M 14.25%
ROIVANT SCIENCES LTD $73.71M 9.92%
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC $64.44M 8.67%
QXO INC $57.19M 7.70%
DATABRICKS, INC. SERIES H PREFERRED SHARES $54.64M 7.36%
ROBLOX CORP - A $34.91M 4.70%
AURORA INNOVATION INC $34.83M 4.69%
AFFIRM HOLDINGS INC $33.96M 4.57%
OPENDOOR TECHNOLOGIES INC $26.03M 3.50%
IONQ INC $25.81M 3.47%
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Allocation by sector

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

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
10
Exited
9
Increased
9
Decreased
18
Unchanged
7

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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FundOverlapNet exp.
Discovery Portfolio · MMGTX, MMGPX 95% 0.95%
Morgan Stanley Discovery Portfolio 75% 0.66%
Morgan Stanley Insight Fund · CPOAX, CPOCX, CPODX, MCRTX, MSCMX, MBIRX 73% 0.82%
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Advisers

As of September 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of January 28, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 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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