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FMFIX

Free Market Fixed Income Fund

Expense Ratio
0.64%
AUM
$3.4B
Inception
12/31/2007
1Y Return
+0.9%70th %ilevs 2,838 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in shares of investment companies that primarily invest in fixed income securities, including U.S. Government obligations, corporate debt, and foreign government obligations. It holds various asset classes, such as short-term corporate bonds tracking the ICE BofAML 1-5 Year US Corporate Index and inflation-protected securities following the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index, while maintaining flexibility to adjust allocations based on market conditions. The fund may also concentrate investments in banking sectors when favorable yields are identified.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
FMFIX
Free Market Fixed Income Fund
0.9%0.9%1.8%-1.63-1.3%
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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
FMFIX
Free Market Fixed Income Fund
0.3%0.0%0.2%-0.8%-0.8%-0.3%0.9%2.6%4.3%1.4%1.6%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
FMFIX
Free Market Fixed Income Fund
3.1%1.2%2.7%2.8%2.0%-1.3%1.0%0.2%1.7%0.7%0.7%4.8%3.3%-1.1%-6.5%5.4%3.9%4.9%0.3%
ⓘ Methodology

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
FMFIXGlobal Dev
Free Market Fixed Income Fund
-1.5%0.08**-0.05*-0.07**-0.020.09**-0.04**-0.05**0.31226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Global Dev 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

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Core (657 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
79
3Y Peer Percentile
22
Expense Ratio
0.64%
5Y Tax Drag
0.77%/yr
AUM
$3.4B
3Y Flow
+49.8%
Yield
3.36%
Inception
12/31/2007
Holdings (Reported)
6,609
Turnover
8%
Equity
8%
Derivatives
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in shares of investment companies that primarily invest in fixed income securities, including U.S. Government obligations, corporate debt, and foreign government obligations. It holds various asset classes, such as short-term corporate bonds tracking the ICE BofAML 1-5 Year US Corporate Index and inflation-protected securities following the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index, while maintaining flexibility to adjust allocations based on market conditions. The fund may also concentrate investments in banking sectors when favorable yields are identified.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (11/12/2024). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Fixed Income Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for FMFIX — 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 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Equity8.7%
Fixed Income82.7%
Cash & Short-Term8.5%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Holdings that are themselves funds are looked through one level to their own mix (87% of the book).

Country Exposure

Level
54.6%
51.5%
Other3.0%
39.7%
7.7%
4.5%
3.8%
3.1%
3.0%
3.0%
2.4%
1.6%
1.2%
1.2%
1.1%
1.0%
Other6.2%
5.7%
3.6%
Other2.1%
ⓘ 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 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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10 positions · 90.5% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %Country
1DFA Two-Year Global Fixed IncoDFGFX
24.98
USA
2iShares 1-5 Year Investment GrIGSB
24.02
USA
3iShares Core International AggIAGG
15.04
USA
4DFA One-Year Fixed Income PortDFIHX
14.45
USA
5DFA Intermediate Government FiDFIGX
6.01
USA
6iShares 5-10 Year Investment GIGIB
6.01
USA
7Dimensional Inflation-Protecte-
5.00
USA
8Mount Vernon Liquid Assets Portfolio-
4.09
USA
9DFA Short-Term Government Port-
3.98
USA
10Invesco Government & Agency Po-
0.47
USA
ⓘ 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. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Fixed Income Funds

Total Holdings6,609
Effective Holdings6.1
Top 10 Weight104.0%
Max Position25.0%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)104%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ 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 5/31/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Fixed Income Funds

vs AGGBroad Benchmark
Tracking Error3.0%
Benchmark Correlation0.89
ⓘ 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
FMFIX
Free Market Fixed Income Fund
Peer Group
657 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
0.25%-2.78%80-2.33%74
1Y Return
0.89%-1.96%79-1.51%70
3Y Return (Ann.)
4.25%4.91%224.80%37
5Y Return (Ann.)
1.42%-0.25%760.27%63
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.64%0.55%410.52%40
ⓘ 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 Similarity91
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1FMVFX
Matson Money Fixed Income VI Fund
Allocation - Conservative
Allocation - Conservative
91---
2DFXIX
DFA Diversified Fixed Income Portfolio
Fixed Income - Government Intermediate
Fixed Income - Government Intermediate
67---
3DGTSX
GLOBAL ALLOCATION 25/75 PORTFOLIO
Allocation - Conservative
Allocation - Conservative
55---
4USIG
iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
55---
5BNDC
FlexShares Core Select Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
55---
6IGSB
iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
55---
7AIMNX
Horizon Active Income Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
53---
8DFGFX
DFA TWO-YEAR GLOBAL FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIO
Fixed Income - Global (Hedged)
Fixed Income - Global (Hedged)
46---
9BNDW
VANGUARD TOTAL WORLD BOND ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
43---
10TDIFX
DIMENSIONAL RETIREMENT INCOME FUND
Target Date Retirement
Target Date Retirement
43---

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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 5/31/2026. 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).