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ANALYTICS
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ANALYTICS
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Fixed Income - Short-Term

Composite

Peer Group

Expense Ratio
0.44%
#NameTickerAUM
1Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index FundBSV$69.9B
2Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade FundVFSTX$55.3B
3Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index FundVCSH$51B
4Lord Abbett Short Duration Income FundLALDX$42.6B
5iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETFIGSB$23.4B
6PIMCO Low Duration Income FundPFIDX$19.7B
7Strategic Advisers Fidelity Short Duration FundFFPLX$16.7B
8JPMorgan Short Duration Bond FundHLLVX$13.3B
9Baird Short-Term Bond FundBSBIX$13.1B
10Short-Term Bond Fund of AmericaASBAX$13B
Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
Peer Group
1.6%1.6%1.5%-1.46-1.2%
ⓘ Methodology

Peer composites equal-weight the group's share-class representatives' daily returns, including delisted members' alive-era history via the frozen year-end snapshots — though our coverage of closed funds is partial, so composite levels at older dates may run slightly high. Membership is the latest known — style migrators carry their full history. 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
Peer Group
0.6%0.0%0.2%-0.8%-0.5%0.3%1.6%3.5%5.0%2.4%5.4%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
198119821983198419851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
Peer Group
3.4%*34.3%-1.7%12.5%15.2%9.4%4.4%7.3%9.8%7.7%12.1%5.4%7.2%0.1%12.3%5.0%6.7%6.8%3.4%7.6%6.7%4.7%4.1%2.6%1.9%5.3%5.2%-2.2%11.3%4.7%2.0%4.2%0.3%1.1%0.4%2.8%2.2%0.8%5.0%3.8%0.0%-4.6%6.0%5.3%5.9%0.6%
ⓘ 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.

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
Global Dev
Peer Group
-1.0%0.07**-0.02-0.04*-0.010.06*-0.03**-0.03*0.30226
ⓘ 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.

SnapshotAs ofvsⓘ

Fund Profile

Type
67% Mutual Fund, 33% ETF
Asset Class
97% , 2% , 1%
Peer Asset Class
Fixed Income
Region
94% , 4% , 1% , …
Peer Group Benchmark
Peer Group
Fixed Income - Short-Term (168 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
49
3Y Peer Percentile
49
Expense Ratio
0.44%
5Y Tax Drag
1.26%/yr
Median Member AUM
$625M
3Y Flow
+20.1%
Yield
4.40%
Inception
10/30/1981
Holdings (Reported)
36,537
Turnover
60%
Equity
0%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
0%
ⓘ Methodology

Every figure on this card is an equal-weight aggregate over the composite's share-class-deduped members: the median across the members reporting each field, blank where too few of them do. Three rows depart from that, because a median of them would say nothing: Inception is the group's OLDEST member — where its combined history can start; 3Y Flow is the group's own net flow over its own assets, not the middle member's rate; and Type, Asset Class and Region are compositions by member count. Holdings is the merged look-through book — distinct positions across the members' holdings.

Composite Factors

Not scored — PEER:Fixed Income - Short-Term’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.

Factor Details

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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); percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Fixed Income93.8%
Cash & Short-Term5.1%
Other1.1%
Short positions of 0.7% of net assets are not shown.ⓘ 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 (3% of the book). Cash & Short-Term includes 0.4% of net assets the filing does not itemise. The short book is stated under the card and never netted into a slice: a pie cannot draw a negative, and folding a hedge into the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class. 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.

Country Exposure

Level
United States87.1%
United States82.9%
Other4.2%
Developed Ex-US11.1%
Canada2.3%
United Kingdom2.2%
Other6.6%
Emerging Markets1.8%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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10 of 168 funds (top 10 shown, create for all 168)

#NameTickerWeight %AUM
1Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index FundBSV
0.60
$69.9B
2Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade FundVFSTX
0.60
$55.3B
3Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index FundVCSH
0.60
$51B
4Lord Abbett Short Duration Income FundLALDX
0.60
$42.6B
5iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETFIGSB
0.60
$23.4B
6PIMCO Low Duration Income FundPFIDX
0.60
$19.7B
7Strategic Advisers Fidelity Short Duration FundFFPLX
0.60
$16.7B
8JPMorgan Short Duration Bond FundHLLVX
0.60
$13.3B
9Baird Short-Term Bond FundBSBIX
0.60
$13.1B
10Short-Term Bond Fund of AmericaASBAX
0.60
$13B
ⓘ Methodology

The funds this composite is made of, each counting once (100 ÷ 10 — the same equal weighting behind its returns and its median exposures), listed largest first by assets. Tick Look-Through to expand them into the stocks they hold. Holdings Concentration beside this card always describes that looked-through book, not this list — it is a statement about exposure, not about the roster. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Concentration

Total Holdings36,537
Effective Holdings967.2
Top 10 Weight7.1%
Max Position1.6%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)0%
Top Country (of Net Assets)84%
ⓘ 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; percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Every row on this card describes the composite's merged look-through book — the stocks its members hold — not the list of member funds, whatever the Holdings card is showing.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
Fixed Income - Short-Term Composite
168 funds
Peer Asset Class
2,838 funds
YTD Return
0.53%-2.33%78
1Y Return
1.59%-1.51%78
3Y Return (Ann.)
4.87%4.80%51
5Y Return (Ann.)
2.33%0.27%75
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.44%0.52%59
ⓘ Methodology

Fixed Income - Short-Term Composite is a Sparkline peer composite — its members are the share-class representatives of the funds in the group (one class per fund: the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class). This card ranks it against its asset class, Fixed Income, which is the only pool a composite has: there is no peer group of peer groups, and the region tier is a fund-level grouping. Typical Member rows are medians across those representatives — the value is the group’s median, and the percentile is the median of the members’ own ranks within Fixed Income, so both describe the middle fund rather than the group as a whole. Quartile chips fill the layer the rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). A dash is a window the group is younger than, or one too few Fixed Income funds have a history for to rank against — hover it for which.