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EMD

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.

AUM
$648M
Inception
12/4/2003
1Y Return
-0.6%58th %ilevs 2,838 asset-class peers
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Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. is an open ended fixed-income mutual fund launched and managed by Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC. It is co-managed by Western Asset Management Company, Western Asset Management Company Limited and Western Asset Management Company Pte. Ltd. The fund invests in fixed income markets of emerging market countries across the globe. It seeks to invest in fixed income securities issued by governments, government-related entities, and corporations which are of any maturity and quality. The fund employs fundamental analysis along with a top-down security picking approach focusing on factors like currency, inflation and interest rate trends, growth rate forecasts, liquidity of markets for that country's debt, political outlook, tax environment to create its portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global. The fund was formerly known as Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. was formed on December 1, 2003 and is domiciled in the United States.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
EMD
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.
-0.6%-0.6%14.4%-0.30-13.3%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
EMD
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.
-6.0%-1.0%-1.5%-10.5%-12.0%-3.3%-0.6%6.0%16.7%3.1%5.7%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
20032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
EMD
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.
0.8%*7.1%-0.3%8.5%7.9%-20.8%53.6%13.8%10.7%23.5%-14.9%-0.5%-4.9%17.5%12.0%-13.7%26.6%7.0%-0.3%-20.8%12.3%16.3%23.4%-6.0%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
EMDDev Ex-US
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.
6.0%0.48**-0.20-0.010.03-0.35-0.010.110.27226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Dev Ex-US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). Fama-French publishes daily factors for developed markets only, so Dev Ex-US is developed markets excluding the US and Global Dev is developed markets including it; emerging markets, a small share of world market capitalization, are not covered by the source data. From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund Profile

Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Core (657 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
70
3Y Peer Percentile
99
AUM
$648M
3Y Flow
+2.1%
Inception
12/4/2003
Holdings (Reported)
726
Equity
0%
Derivatives
0%
Strategy Summary

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. is an open ended fixed-income mutual fund launched and managed by Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC. It is co-managed by Western Asset Management Company, Western Asset Management Company Limited and Western Asset Management Company Pte. Ltd. The fund invests in fixed income markets of emerging market countries across the globe. It seeks to invest in fixed income securities issued by governments, government-related entities, and corporations which are of any maturity and quality. The fund employs fundamental analysis along with a top-down security picking approach focusing on factors like currency, inflation and interest rate trends, growth rate forecasts, liquidity of markets for that country's debt, political outlook, tax environment to create its portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global. The fund was formerly known as Salomon Brothers Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. was formed on December 1, 2003 and is domiciled in the United States.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the prospectus fee table, else the SEC annual shareholder report, else market data. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 6/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 6/30/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Fixed Income Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for EMD — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 6/30/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Fixed Income99.5%
Other0.5%
Short positions of 3.1% of net assets are not shown.ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. The long book is 135% of net assets, so shares are of the long book rather than of the fund - it is levered by 35%. The short book is stated under the card and never netted into a slice: a pie cannot draw a negative, and folding a hedge into the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class.

Country Exposure

Level
67.9%
5.9%
4.3%
3.3%
3.0%
2.5%
2.4%
2.2%
2.2%
2.1%
1.9%
1.7%
1.7%
1.7%
1.6%
1.6%
1.0%
Other28.7%
18.0%
5.0%
2.5%
2.0%
1.0%
Other7.5%
14.1%
8.8%
Other5.3%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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262 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameWeight %Country
1Argentina, Republic OF - Subsecretaria DE Financiamiento
2.51
ARG
2Petroleos Mexicanos
2.40
MEX
3Romania, Republic OF - Ministry OF Finance
2.33
RO
4Kazmunaygas National Company JSC
2.28
KZ
5Petrobras Global Finance BV
2.00
NLD
6Angola, Republic OF - Ministry OF Finance
1.97
AO
7Petroleos DE Venezuela
1.97
VE
8Hungary, Republic OF - Ministry OF Finance
1.71
HUN
9Uruguay, Republica Oriental Del - Ministerio DE Economia Y Finanzas
1.68
UY
10Ecuador, Republica Del - Ministerio DE Finanzas Y Credito Publico
1.64
EC
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Fixed Income Funds

Total Holdings726
Effective Holdings147
Top 10 Weight20.5%
Max Position2.5%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)125%
Top Country (of Net Assets)12%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 6/30/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Fixed Income Funds

vs AGGBroad Benchmark
Tracking Error12.5%
Benchmark Correlation0.45
ⓘ Methodology

One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
EMD
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc.
Peer Group
657 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
-5.95%-2.78%6-2.33%8
1Y Return
-0.57%-1.96%70-1.51%58
3Y Return (Ann.)
16.69%4.91%994.80%99
5Y Return (Ann.)
3.09%-0.25%870.27%83
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
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ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (1,557 share classes across 657 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity28
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1BEMB
iShares J.P. Morgan Broad USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
28---
2EMHY
iShares J.P. Morgan EM High Yield Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
26---
3XEMD
BondBloxx JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets 1-10 Year Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
25---
4VEMY
Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
20---
5EMB
iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
20---
6EHI
Western Asset Global High Income Fund Inc.
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
20---
7EMHC
State Street(R) SPDR(R) Bloomberg Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
18---
8VWOB
VANGUARD EMERGING MARKETS GOVERNMENT BOND INDEX FUND
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
18---
9GEMD
Goldman Sachs Access Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
17---
10MSD
MORGAN STANLEY EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
Fixed Income - Emerging Markets (Hard Currency)
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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 6/30/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).