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FALN holdings

FALN reports 159 holdings and behaves like 109.6 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

17.4% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 25.6

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

159 Positions reported
109.6 Effective holdings
1.5× Concentration multiple
17.8% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 15.77% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FALN's largest investment is Vodafone Group PLC at 2.99% of net assets. GFL Environmental Inc and Resorts World Las Vegas LLC / Rwlv Capital Inc follow; the three together are 6.99%. Ten companies are 17.8% of the fund; the other 149 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FALN behaves like 109.6 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FALN has become more concentrated: it behaved like 147.6 at 2019-10-31 and 107.9 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 31 positions were added and 26 dropped; 10.4% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 81.33% of the portfolio, across 11 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FALN went from behaving like 147.6 equally weighted positions to 107.9 — 27% fewer, while its top ten went from 14.89% to 17.91% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 162 107.9 17.91% 3.02%
2026-01-31 157 107.4 17.82% 2.98%
2025-10-31 155 107.7 17.98% 3.01%
2025-07-31 169 120.3 16.17% 2.96%
2025-04-30 164 120 15.77% 3%
2025-01-31 164 109 18.17% 2.95%
2024-10-31 179 112.1 18.07% 3%
2024-07-31 184 118 17.43% 2.93%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 188 123.9 16.83% 2.96%
2024-01-31 208 134.2 16.18% 2.75%
2023-10-31 215 142.1 15.1% 2.67%
2023-07-31 221 146.5 14.56% 2.56%
2023-04-30 267 160.8 14.66% 2.08%
2023-01-31 259 161.7 14.98% 2.02%
2022-10-31 254 156.9 15.24% 2.02%
2022-07-31 264 160.3 14.8% 1.98%
2022-04-30 301 175.8 14.24% 1.94%
2022-01-31 326 197.7 12.54% 1.61%
2021-10-31 372 213.5 12.21% 1.54%
2021-07-31 358 196 13.71% 2.38%
2021-04-30 378 203.3 13.36% 2.35%
2021-01-31 389 216.8 12.86% 2.18%
2020-10-31 367 203.1 13.08% 2.26%
2020-07-31 365 196.9 12.82% 2.49%
2020-04-30 311 172.1 13.7% 1.92%
2020-01-31 228 140.1 15.74% 2.34%
2019-10-31 234 147.6 14.89% 2.29%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

As filed, collateral included

17.37% collateral

FALN's filing lists 160 positions including 17.37% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 25.6 effective holdings with a top ten of 33.61%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 109.6 with a top ten of 17.8%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 159 positions in FALN's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FALN.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1VODAFONE GROUP PLC3.02%3.0%
2GFL ENVIRONMENTAL INC2.17%5.2%
3RESORTS WORLD/RWLV CAP1.86%7.0%
4BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES1.82%8.9%
5PACIFICORP1.80%10.7%
6UNITED RENTALS NORTH AM1.55%12.2%
7HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL L1.50%13.7%
8PERRIGO FINANCE UNLIMITE1.48%15.2%
9METHANEX CORP1.45%16.6%
10FLUOR CORP1.26%17.9%
11TRANSOCEAN INTERNTNL LTD1.23%19.1%
12VF CORP1.22%20.4%
13HORIZON MUTUAL HOLDINGS1.19%21.6%
14NEWELL BRANDS INC1.19%22.7%
15BOMBARDIER INC1.19%23.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FALN's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 77.32%
Canada 6.84%
Luxembourg° 3.37%
United Kingdom 3.02%
Bermuda° 2.08%
Japan 2.07%
Ireland° 1.95%
Netherlands° 1.50%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FALN's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

10.1%Last twelve months filed
47%Whole series, compounded
10.5%Best month
-15.9%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.28 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FALN.json · all funds.

Who borrows FALN's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $269m was out to 17 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 29.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $80m 29.9%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $48m 17.7%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $33m 12.2%
RBC Capital Markets LLC $19m 7.1%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $17m 6.3%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter FALN has filed, with each borrower: FALN.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

157 positions became 162: 31 added (5.8% of the fund at the later date), 26 dropped (8.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FALN compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.41%1.82% EMBARQ LLC0.97%0.70%
SES AMERICOM INC0.47%0.81% KOHL'S CORPORATION0.93%0.73%
SES SA0.01%0.35% BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP0.93%0.77%
FMC CORP0.65%0.86% SEAGATE DATA STOR0.18%0.06%
FMC CORP0.65%0.84% VF CORP0.85%0.73%
DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC0.07%0.25% KOHL'S CORPORATION0.62%0.54%

New: FS KKR CAPITAL CORP (0.66%), FS KKR CAPITAL CORP (0.56%), FS KKR CAPITAL CORP (0.44%), FS KKR CAPITAL CORP (0.42%), FS KKR CAPITAL CORP (0.39%), PARAMOUNT GLOBAL (0.37%). Gone: ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS IN (1.57%), DRESDNER FNDG TRUST I (0.97%), FRONTIER FLORIDA LLC (0.62%), H.B. FULLER CO (0.58%), BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP (0.49%), NORDSTROM INC (0.44%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

84.23% debt, 15.77% short-term investment as filed; 15.8% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FALN (109.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
YLD Principal Active High Yield ETF 149 94.3 17.92% 2026-06-30
PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF 103 101.5 11.64% 2026-07-31
CMDT PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund 371 103.2 * 20.28% 2026-06-30
HFSI Hartford Strategic Income ETF 1,179 104.1 * 24.1% 2026-07-31
FPEI First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF 174 106.7 17.96% 2026-07-31
FREI Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund 589 115.9 18.31% 2026-07-31
LDUR PIMCO Enhanced Low Duration Active Exchange-Traded Fund 791 116.3 * 18.44% 2026-06-30
RAVI FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund 246 116.8 18.78% 2026-07-31
ISHG iShares 1-3 Year International Treasury Bond ETF 187 120.4 14.73% 2026-07-31
TAGG T. Rowe Price QM U.S. Bond ETF 1,817 125.9 20.44% 2026-07-31

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