Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in municipal securities and other investments with similar economic characteristics, with interest exempt from regular federal income tax but potentially subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. It typically focuses on intermediate-term and long-term investment grade bonds rated Baa/BBB or above, while allowing for unlimited investment in below investment grade bonds. The fund may also utilize derivatives and leverage to adjust portfolio characteristics and enhance returns, while being classified as diversified.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund | -3.8% | -3.8% | 3.7% | -2.05 | -7.9% |
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.
Name | YTD | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 5Y | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund | -5.0% | -0.8% | -0.6% | -5.1% | -7.6% | -5.5% | -3.8% | -1.5% | 3.3% | -0.2% | 1.0% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund | -2.4% | 4.4% | -1.9% | 5.4% | 3.8% | 3.8% | -9.8% | 8.0% | 2.2% | 3.4% | -5.0% |
ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.
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Name | Ann. α | β MKT | β SMB | β HML | β RMW | β CMA | β UMD | β iHML | R² | Obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LSMSXUS Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund | -1.8% | 0.07** | -0.01 | -0.03 | -0.01 | 0.05* | -0.02 | -0.02 | 0.13 | 226 |
ETF performance based on market prices. 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). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in municipal securities and other investments with similar economic characteristics, with interest exempt from regular federal income tax but potentially subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. It typically focuses on intermediate-term and long-term investment grade bonds rated Baa/BBB or above, while allowing for unlimited investment in below investment grade bonds. The fund may also utilize derivatives and leverage to adjust portfolio characteristics and enhance returns, while being classified as diversified.
MethodologyExpense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the fund's prospectus. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/29/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.
None of the selected metrics are scored for LSMSX — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).
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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.
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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
244 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)
| # | Name | Weight % | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Community Choice Financing Authority (CA) | 2.39 | USA |
| 2 | Texas Transn Commn | 2.36 | USA |
| 3 | New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority (NJ) | 2.21 | USA |
| 4 | New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority (NY) | 2.21 | USA |
| 5 | California Community Choice Financing Authority (CA) | 1.97 | USA |
| 6 | Massachusetts ST | 1.66 | USA |
| 7 | Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (the) (TN) | 1.61 | USA |
| 8 | Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority (PA) | 1.44 | USA |
| 9 | Illinois (IL), State OF | 1.40 | USA |
| 10 | Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (TX) | 1.18 | USA |
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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
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 5/29/2026.
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.
Metric | LSMSX Western Asset SMASh Series TF Fund | Peer Group 657 funds | Peer Asset Class 2,838 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -4.97% | -2.78%8 | -2.33%14 |
1Y Return | -3.75% | -1.96%12 | -1.51%15 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 3.31% | 4.91%7 | 4.80%21 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | -0.21% | -0.25%51 | 0.27%40 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | 0.04% | 0.55%92 | 0.52%94 |
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.
Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.
| Fund | Peer Group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SHMMX Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 78 | - | - | - |
| 2 | MMU Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund Inc. Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 56 | - | - | - |
| 3 | GWMEX AMG GW&K Municipal Enhanced Yield Fund Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 36 | - | - | - |
| 4 | MESHX AMG GW&K Municipal Enhanced SMA Shares Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 36 | - | - | - |
| 5 | STXAX Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund Fixed Income - Muni High Yield | Fixed Income - Muni High Yield | 36 | - | - | - |
| 6 | SBNYX Western Asset New York Municipals Fund Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 36 | - | - | - |
| 7 | SBLTX Western Asset Intermediate-Term Municipals Fund Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 36 | - | - | - |
| 8 | FHTFX Federated Hermes Municipal High Yield Advantage Fund Fixed Income - Muni High Yield | Fixed Income - Muni High Yield | 35 | - | - | - |
| 9 | SBI Western Asset Intermediate Muni Fund Inc. Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 35 | - | - | - |
| 10 | INTAX Columbia Strategic Municipal Income Fund Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long | 35 | - | - | - |
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MethodologyRows 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 5/29/2026. 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).