QAMNX
Federated Hermes MDT Market Neutral Fund
Federated Hermes Adviser Series
Expense ratio1
2.36%
Net assets2
$2.25B
Holdings2
218
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
10.00%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Feb. 24, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Funds investment objective is to seek to provide long-term capital appreciation while limiting exposure to general stock market risk.

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by selecting long positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Funds quantitative model predicts will achieve above-market returns, and short positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Funds quantitative model predicts will achieve below-market returns. The portfolio maintains long and short exposures in an attempt to neutralize market volatility. The Funds investments primarily include, but are not limited to, equity securities of issuers listed in the Russell 3000 Index. The Fund may invest in companies with market capitalizations of any size, including small-capitalization, mid-capitalization and large-capitalization (or small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap) companies. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization representing approximately 98% … The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by selecting long positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Funds quantitative model predicts will achieve above-market returns, and short positions in publicly traded common stocks which the Funds quantitative model predicts will achieve below-market returns. The portfolio maintains long and short exposures in an attempt to neutralize market volatility. The Funds investments primarily include, but are not limited to, equity securities of issuers listed in the Russell 3000 Index. The Fund may invest in companies with market capitalizations of any size, including small-capitalization, mid-capitalization and large-capitalization (or small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap) companies. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization representing approximately 98% of the investable domestic equity market. As of December 31, 2025, companies in the Russell 3000 Index ranged in market capitalization from $1.3 million to $4.5 trillion. The Fund may also invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs). The Adviser implements its strategy using a quantitative model driven by fundamental and technical stock selection variables. This process seeks to impose strict discipline over stock selection, unimpeded by market or manager psychology. It seeks to maximize compound annual return while controlling risk. The process also takes into account trading costs in an effort to ensure that trades are generated only to the extent they are expected to be profitable on an after-trading-cost basis. Additionally, risk is controlled through diversification constraints which limit exposure to individual companies as well as groups of correlated companies. The Advisers stock selection process is expected to result in long and short investments in companies with both growth and value characteristics. The Fund will attempt to realize investment gains on both the long and short sides of its investment strategies through stock selection. The style is termed market neutral in that it is not making bets regarding the direction of the equity markets. The market-neutral approach is roughly balanced by sector but not balanced across industries and businesses. The Funds net positions will not be concentrated in any industry or group of industries. Thus, the Fund is not completely isolated from market movements. The overall performance of the Fund depends on the net performance of its long and short positions, and it is possible for the Fund to experience a net loss across both its long and short positions. If the Funds investment strategy is successful, however, the net performance of its long and short positions will produce long-term capital appreciation that reflects the quality of the Advisers security selections, with limited exposure to general stock market risk. Because of the Funds market neutral strategy, the Funds overall price movements are not expected to correlate with the general stock markets price movements. In other words, the Fund is expected to have returns that are independent of the returns and direction of the general stock market (i.e., zero beta). The Fund may, but is not required to, use derivatives, such as futures, options, forward contracts, and swap agreements, as an alternative to selling a security short, to increase returns, or as part of a hedging strategy.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
Federated Hermes Government Obligations Tax-Managed Fund, Institutional Class GOFXX $223.36M 9.92%
UNITEDHEALTH GRP $58.57M 2.60%
GE VERNOVA LLC $58.15M 2.58%
FISERV INC $58.04M 2.58%
TRAVELERS COS IN $56.21M 2.50%
VIKING HOLDINGS LTD $49.75M 2.21%
TERADYNE INC $45.07M 2.00%
LULULEMON ATHLETICA INC $44.25M 1.97%
FIVE BELOW INC $43.45M 1.93%
MODERNA INC $39.49M 1.75%
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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
47
Exited
44
Increased
61
Decreased
88
Unchanged
212

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 December 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Federated Advisory Services Company Adviser
Federated MDTA LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of February 24, 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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