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VGI

Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund

AUM
$91M
Inception
2/24/2012
1Y Return
-5.3%8th %ilevs 2,838 asset-class peers
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Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. The fund is co-managed by Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. and Newfleet Asset Management, LLC. It invests in fixed income markets across the globe. The fund invests in both investment grade and high yield debt instruments issued by the government, corporate, bank loans, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, taxable municipal bonds, and tax-exempt municipal bonds. It invests in securities with average duration which varies within three years (plus or minus) of the duration of the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. The fund employs fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach while focusing on factors such as yield and spreads, supply and demand, investment environment, sector fundamentals, assessment of credit risk, company management, issue structure, technical market conditions, and valuations to create its portfolio. It seeks to benchmark the performance of its portfolio against the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. The fund was formerly known as Virtus-Newfleet Global Multi-Sector Income Fund. Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund was formed on February 23, 2012 and is domiciled in the United States.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
VGI
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund
-5.3%-5.3%8.9%-1.03-9.7%
ⓘ 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
VGI
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund
-6.5%-0.6%-1.3%-8.0%-8.0%-4.7%-5.3%2.5%10.7%0.4%3.7%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
VGI
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund
0.0%*-2.5%3.0%1.7%23.2%27.5%-28.7%27.3%8.9%1.4%-22.3%13.4%10.4%16.1%-6.5%
ⓘ 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
VGIGlobal Dev
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund
-2.4%0.37**0.10-0.12-0.090.07-0.06-0.030.33226
ⓘ 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

Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Unconstrained (154 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
9
3Y Peer Percentile
98
AUM
$91M
3Y Flow
0.0%
Inception
2/24/2012
Holdings (Reported)
1,341
Equity
0%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
1%
Strategy Summary

Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. The fund is co-managed by Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. and Newfleet Asset Management, LLC. It invests in fixed income markets across the globe. The fund invests in both investment grade and high yield debt instruments issued by the government, corporate, bank loans, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, taxable municipal bonds, and tax-exempt municipal bonds. It invests in securities with average duration which varies within three years (plus or minus) of the duration of the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. The fund employs fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach while focusing on factors such as yield and spreads, supply and demand, investment environment, sector fundamentals, assessment of credit risk, company management, issue structure, technical market conditions, and valuations to create its portfolio. It seeks to benchmark the performance of its portfolio against the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. The fund was formerly known as Virtus-Newfleet Global Multi-Sector Income Fund. Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund was formed on February 23, 2012 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 5/29/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/29/2026. Summary may be from an older 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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 5/29/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Fixed Income99.9%
Other0.1%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. The long book is 141% of net assets, so shares are of the long book rather than of the fund - it is levered by 41%.

Country Exposure

Level
60.7%
51.8%
Other8.8%
31.9%
3.3%
2.3%
2.2%
2.0%
1.8%
1.8%
1.5%
1.5%
1.4%
1.3%
1.2%
1.2%
1.1%
1.0%
1.0%
Other7.4%
7.4%
1.3%
1.1%
Other5.0%
ⓘ 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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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

#NameWeight %Country
1United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt
1.42
USA
2Federal Home Loan Mortgage
1.29
USA
3Federal National Mortgage Association
1.26
USA
4Oman, Government OF The Sultanate OF
1.21
OM
5Federal Home Loan Mortgage
1.16
USA
6Federal National Mortgage Association
1.16
USA
7Hungary, Republic OF - Ministry OF Finance
1.11
HUN
8Saudi Arabia, Kingdom OF
0.97
SAU
9Argentina, Republic OF - Subsecretaria DE Financiamiento
0.93
ARG
10United States OF America - Bureau OF The Public Debt
0.91
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. Holdings as of 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Fixed Income Funds

Total Holdings1,341
Effective Holdings344.8
Top 10 Weight11.4%
Max Position1.4%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)121%
Top Country (of Net Assets)73%
ⓘ 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 5/29/2026.

Benchmark DifferentiationRef: Fixed Income Funds

vs AGGBroad Benchmark
Tracking Error8.7%
Benchmark Correlation0.36
ⓘ 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
VGI
Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund
Peer Group
154 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
-6.52%-0.72%5-2.33%6
1Y Return
-5.32%0.34%9-1.51%8
3Y Return (Ann.)
10.66%6.45%984.80%96
5Y Return (Ann.)
0.43%2.12%130.27%52
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
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ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (484 share classes across 154 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 Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1RDFI
Rareview Dynamic Fixed Income ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
28--
2PFO
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
28--
3DLY
DoubleLine Yield Opportunities Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
26--
4DFP
Flaherty & Crumrine Dynamic Preferred and Income Fund Incorporated
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
25--
5FLC
Flaherty & Crumrine Total Return Fund Incorporated
Allocation - Conservative
Allocation - Conservative
24--
6HPI
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
24--
7XCCC
BondBloxx CCC Rated USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
24--
8VLT
Invesco High Income Trust II
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
Fixed Income - HY Corporate
24--
9HPS
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
24--
10EVV
Eaton Vance Ltd Duration Income Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
23--

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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 5/29/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). 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.