High Income Securities Fund
High Income Securities Fund is a closed-ended balanced income mutual fund launched and managed by Putnam Investment Management, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Putnam Investments Limited. It invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It invests in both convertible bonds and convertible preferred stocks. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against a composite index comprising of 50% JPMorgan Developed High Yield Index and 50% BofA Merrill Lynch AllConvertibles Speculative Quality Index. The fund was formerly known as Putnam High Income Securities Fund High Income Securities Fund was formed on July 9, 1987 and is domiciled in the United States.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High Income Securities Fund | -8.5% | -8.5% | 12.8% | -0.96 | -10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High Income Securities Fund | -9.5% | -0.6% | -2.7% | -8.4% | -5.7% | -1.6% | -8.5% | -3.0% | 5.9% | -0.1% | 7.3% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High Income Securities Fund | -20.8%* | 14.7% | -3.3% | -11.1% | 72.4% | 27.9% | 18.0% | -1.9% | 22.4% | 12.9% | 22.6% | -6.5% | -21.3% | 18.8% | 8.5% | 0.6% | 32.2% | 9.5% | 1.2% | 21.3% | 0.0% | -31.9% | 57.5% | 24.8% | -2.3% | 10.4% | 10.1% | 2.9% | -5.4% | 17.8% | 14.6% | 5.4% | 4.2% | 8.1% | 11.4% | -15.6% | 10.4% | 13.8% | 5.2% | -9.5% |
* 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.
Select a second series, or to correlate with the seven research factors.
Name | Ann. α | β MKT | β SMB | β HML | β RMW | β CMA | β UMD | β iHML | R² | Obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PCFUS High Income Securities Fund | -9.7% | 0.42** | -0.01 | 0.05 | -0.06 | 0.09 | -0.03 | -0.02 | 0.20 | 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.
High Income Securities Fund is a closed-ended balanced income mutual fund launched and managed by Putnam Investment Management, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Putnam Investments Limited. It invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It invests in both convertible bonds and convertible preferred stocks. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against a composite index comprising of 50% JPMorgan Developed High Yield Index and 50% BofA Merrill Lynch AllConvertibles Speculative Quality Index. The fund was formerly known as Putnam High Income Securities Fund High Income Securities Fund was formed on July 9, 1987 and is domiciled in the United States.
MethodologyExpense 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 5/31/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/31/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.
Based on equity exposure only (21% of total assets).
Equity size and style definitions: Large vs. Small based on market cap, where Large > $70B, Mid $10-70B, and Small < $10B. Value vs. Growth based on percentile ranking on Traditional Value score within the fund's region and size cohort (equal thirds among its true equity-fund peers). This fund is not an equity fund, so the box describes its equity sleeve only (76% of assets): the sleeve's holdings are scored and ranked against equity funds of the same region and size cohort. The rest of the portfolio (bonds, cash, other assets) is not represented here. Cell shading and percentages: share of classified holdings weight per box, from stock-level classification (size on the same $70B/$10B lines; value by Traditional Value terciles across scored stocks). The dot is the average holding ranked against other funds, so dot and weights can differ at the margin. The Size and Style bars are the grid's row and column totals. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Based on equity exposure only (21% of total assets).
None of the selected metrics are scored for PCF — 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 (Alternatives 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 5/31/2026.
Taken from what this fund IS rather than from what it files. Its exposure is carried in swaps or futures that mark at close to nothing, so the book it reports is the collateral behind them and a pie of that book would describe a margin account. Gearing is not expressed here - a 3x fund reads 100% of its asset class, not 300%. An alternative strategy is counted by what the fund is, not by what it holds: a long/short or managed futures book is ordinary stocks and Treasury collateral, and neither describes the exposure the fund gives. A fund that is short is counted here too, rather than in the asset class it is short of.
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.
Based on equity exposure only (21% of total assets).
Shares are percentages of the fund's classified holdings — every position we can identify, with cash and unidentified positions excluded — not portfolio weights. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Based on equity exposure only (21% of total assets).
Shares are percentages of the fund's classified equity book, renormalized so each split sums to 100% (the equity book is 76% of net assets) — they are not portfolio weights. China exposure: domiciled = incorporated in China or Hong Kong, falling back to the filing's country for holdings outside the stock model. Among the rest, revenue = ≥15% of revenue derived from China; operations = ≥3% of LinkedIn-tracked workforce in China, or ≥2 identified Chinese suppliers making up ≥12% of those identified. China revenue is estimated where segment reporting is absent. Company size bands by holding market cap: Mega >$500B, Large $70–500B, Mid $10–70B, Small $1–10B, Micro <$1B. Old vs New Economy partitions Sparkline's 48 industries: New = technology, internet platforms and entertainment, e-commerce, payments, pharma/biotech/medtech, and renewable energy; Old = everything else. Shares are of classified holdings and sum to 100%. China shares are of total equity weight. Size shares are of scored holdings weight. Holdings as of 5/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
157 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 31.8% in funds
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | Sector | Industry | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund | DSM | 6.59 | - | - | USA |
| 2 | Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund | NBXG | 5.85 | - | - | USA |
| 3 | Gabelli Dividend & Income Trust (the) | - | 3.62 | - | - | USA |
| 4 | BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals | LEO | 3.51 | - | - | USA |
| 5 | Cion Investment | CION | 3.46 | Financials | Investment Management | USA |
| 6 | Voya Emerging Markets High Dividend Equity Fund | IHD | 2.65 | - | - | USA |
| 7 | Runway Growth Finance | - | 2.50 | - | - | USA |
| 8 | Blue Owl Technology Finance | - | 2.32 | - | - | USA |
| 9 | Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund | BPRE | 1.93 | - | - | USA |
| 10 | FS KKR Capital | - | 1.87 | - | - | 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. "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.
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 (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 5/31/2026.
Metric | PCF High Income Securities Fund | Peer Group 38 funds | Peer Asset Class 251 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -9.54% | 6.34%3 | 7.46%6 |
1Y Return | -8.54% | 8.37%0 | 9.49%5 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 5.93% | 9.12%24 | 9.39%28 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | -0.14% | 4.23%8 | 5.24%6 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | - | - | - |
Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (72 share classes across 38 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 | CEFS Saba Closed-End Funds ETF Allocation - Aggressive | Allocation - Aggressive | 33 | - | - | - |
| 2 | FCEF First Trust Income Opportunities ETF Allocation - Moderate | Allocation - Moderate | 18 | - | - | - |
| 3 | VPC Virtus Private Credit Strategy ETF Sector - Financials | Sector - Financials | 18 | - | - | - |
| 4 | MDCEX Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy Allocation - Aggressive | Allocation - Aggressive | 18 | - | - | - |
| 5 | FOF Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund, Inc. Allocation - Moderate | Allocation - Moderate | 16 | - | - | - |
| 6 | PCEF Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF Allocation - Moderate | Allocation - Moderate | 12 | - | - | - |
| 7 | MCTOX Modern Capital Tactical Income Fund Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic | Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic | 12 | - | - | - |
| 8 | CCEF Calamos CEF Income & Arbitrage ETF Alts - Event-Driven & Arbitrage | Alts - Event-Driven & Arbitrage | 12 | - | - | - |
| 9 | ACEFX ABSOLUTE CEF OPPORTUNITIES Allocation - Aggressive | Allocation - Aggressive | 12 | - | - | - |
| 10 | QMLFX Quantified Market Leaders Fund Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic | Allocation - Tactical/Dynamic | 12 | - | - | - |
The method columns are members-only — create a free account to see these figures.
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 5/31/2026. 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).