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MDFIX

Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy

Expense Ratio
2.53%
AUM
$53M
Inception
4/30/2020
1Y Return
-2.5%34th %ilevs 2,838 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in discounted closed-end funds that primarily invest in bonds, which trade at substantial discounts relative to their underlying net asset values. It holds approximately 30 to 90 closed-end funds, with a focus on those rated B or higher, while allowing for up to two-thirds of the portfolio to be in below investment grade bonds when discounts are attractive. The strategy aims to capture total return from NAV movement, discount movement, and enhanced income due to discounts.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
MDFIX
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
-2.5%-2.5%4.6%-1.35-4.7%
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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
MDFIX
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
-3.2%-0.7%-0.8%-4.1%-3.9%-1.4%-2.5%0.5%9.5%2.1%6.9%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
202020212022202320242025YTD
MDFIX
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
26.8%*9.5%-15.8%13.6%10.7%8.1%-3.2%
ⓘ 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
MDFIXUS
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
-3.5%0.19**0.04-0.010.000.05-0.01-0.030.39226
ⓘ Methodology

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.

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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
Peer Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Core (657 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
32
3Y Peer Percentile
94
Expense Ratio
2.53%
AUM
$53M
3Y Flow
+89.2%
Yield
6.84%
Inception
4/30/2020
Holdings (Reported)
7,970
Turnover
63%
Equity
1%
Derivatives
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in discounted closed-end funds that primarily invest in bonds, which trade at substantial discounts relative to their underlying net asset values. It holds approximately 30 to 90 closed-end funds, with a focus on those rated B or higher, while allowing for up to two-thirds of the portfolio to be in below investment grade bonds when discounts are attractive. The strategy aims to capture total return from NAV movement, discount movement, and enhanced income due to discounts.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (6/8/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 6/30/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Fixed Income Funds

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ⓘ 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 9/30/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Equity4.3%
Fixed Income64.1%
Cash & Short-Term31.4%
Other0.2%
ⓘ 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 (67% of the book). Cash & Short-Term includes 1.1% of net assets the filing does not itemise. Other is everything we could not name as an asset class: holdings the filing itself labels as other, derivative positions at the market value the filing reports rather than at notional, and funds held inside this fund whose own holdings we could not read (0.1% here).

Country Exposure

Level

Based on holdings that carry a country (68% of total assets).

94.1%
89.5%
Other4.5%
4.6%
1.4%
Other3.2%
Emerging Markets1.3%
ⓘ 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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24 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 65.9% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %Country
1Fidelity Investments-
29.60
USA
2PIMCO California MunPCQ
9.90
USA
3PIMCO New York MunicPNI
8.23
USA
4XAI Octagon FloatingXFLT
3.88
USA
5The FS CreditFSCO
3.84
USA
6Western AssetWIW
3.62
USA
7Nuveen Floating RateJFR
3.60
USA
8FS Specialty LendingFSSL
3.55
USA
9Invesco SeniorVVR
3.49
USA
10Blackstone/GSO Long-BGX
3.47
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 6/30/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Fixed Income Funds

Total Holdings7,970
Effective Holdings8.2
Top 10 Weight73.2%
Max Position29.6%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)99%
Top Country (of Net Assets)99%
ⓘ 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.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
MDFIX
Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy
Peer Group
657 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
-3.24%-2.78%33-2.33%34
1Y Return
-2.45%-1.96%32-1.51%34
3Y Return (Ann.)
9.52%4.91%944.80%94
5Y Return (Ann.)
2.07%-0.25%820.27%71
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
2.53%0.55%20.52%1
ⓘ 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 Similarity26
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1RTAI
Rareview Tax Advantaged Income ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
26----
2ROBAX
Robinson Tax Advantaged Income Fund
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
26----
3PCQ
PIMCO CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL INCOME FUND
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
26----
4XMPT
VanEck CEF Muni Income ETF
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
23----
5BTFAX
BTS Tactical Fixed Income Fund
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
23----
6PNI
PIMCO NEW YORK MUNICIPAL INCOME FUND II
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
21----
7RDFI
Rareview Dynamic Fixed Income ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
21----
8QFITX
Quantified Tactical Fixed Income Fund
Fixed Income - Unconstrained
Fixed Income - Unconstrained
21----
9QGITX
Quantified Government Income Tactical Fund
Fixed Income - Government Intermediate
Fixed Income - Government Intermediate
21----
10AMAX
Adaptive Hedged Multi-Asset Income ETF
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
21----

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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). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.