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FTCB holdings

FTCB reports 725 holdings and behaves like 314.5 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 10 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
725 Positions reported
314.5 Effective holdings
2.3× Concentration multiple
9.82% 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: 0.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), 12 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FTCB's largest investment is T 3.5 02/15/29 at 1.71% of net assets. Fnma-30yr and Fnma-30yr follow; the three together are 4.28%. Ten companies are 9.82% of the fund; the other 715 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FTCB behaves like 314.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 10 quarterly filings FTCB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 59 at 2024-01-31 and 295.5 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 119 positions were added and 69 dropped; 25.9% of the weight moved.

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 2024

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Between 2024-01-31 and 2026-04-30, FTCB went from behaving like 59 equally weighted positions to 295.5 — 401% more, while its top ten went from 29.49% to 9.88% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 699 295.5 9.88% 1.63%
2026-01-31 648 293.4 8.68% 1%
2025-10-31 583 255.2 10.15% 1.24%
2025-07-31 562 229.2 12.13% 1.53%
2025-04-30 490 175.8 14.66% 1.99%
2025-01-31 423 107.3 22.46% 3.37%
2024-10-31 294 128.4 18.05% 2.12%
2024-07-31 227 45.8 32.94% 10.12%
Earlier filings (2 more, back to 2024-01-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 207 56 31.22% 5.02%
2024-01-31 201 59 29.49% 3.29%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 725 positions in FTCB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTCB.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.63%1.6%
2FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION1.29%2.9%
3FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION1.15%4.1%
4UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.11%5.2%
5MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS1.03%6.2%
6UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.84%7.1%
7GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION0.75%7.8%
8UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.71%8.5%
9UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.69%9.2%
10FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION0.67%9.9%
11PMT LOAN TRUST 2025-CNF10.66%10.5%
12UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.66%11.2%
13UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.65%11.8%
14Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.0.63%12.5%
15UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.62%13.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FTCB'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 93.19%
Cayman Islands° 2.27%
Canada 1.42%
Ireland° 0.66%
United Kingdom 0.46%
Switzerland 0.45%
Jersey° 0.37%
Netherlands° 0.35%

Returns the fund reported

2023-11 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTCB's own filings, 30 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

5.0%Last twelve months filed
18%Whole series, compounded
3.8%Best month
-2.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTCB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

648 positions became 698: 119 added (23.5% of the fund at the later date), 69 dropped (9.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 25.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTCB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
MORGAN STANLEY0.10%0.41% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.48%0.04%
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.04%0.28% JP MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2026-10.54%0.30%
GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC0.26%0.47% PMT LOAN TRUST 2025-CNF10.85%0.66%
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS0.82%1.03% GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION0.92%0.75%
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP0.09%0.24% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.00%0.84%
MEDLINE BORROWER LP0.37%0.51% Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.0.78%0.63%

New: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.63%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (1.29%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (1.15%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.11%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (0.48%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (0.47%). Gone: US TREASURY N/B (0.96%), TSY INFL IX N/B (0.84%), TREASURY BILL (0.48%), US TREASURY N/B (0.48%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.47%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.37%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT42.13%
ABS-O ABS-O39.29%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS14.63%
CDO/CLO ABS-CBDO2.97%
short-term investment STIV0.79%
DIR DIR0.18%
equity EC0.01%

1.0% of FTCB is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-04-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $2.37B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0.02%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
17.88%Futures notional (75)
17.9%Sum, % of net assets

69 option positions filed, 69 of them written. The book as filed:

TypeSideStrikeExpiryUnderlying
CallWritten1212026-05-22as filed, not named
PutWritten108.752026-05-22as filed, not named
PutWritten1112026-05-22as filed, not named
PutWritten103.752026-05-22as filed, not named
CallWritten1202026-11-20as filed, not named
PutWritten103.52026-08-21as filed, not named
PutWritten1092026-08-21as filed, not named
PutWritten1052026-11-20as filed, not named
PutWritten1062026-05-22as filed, not named
CallWritten1162026-08-21as filed, not named
CallWritten1102026-08-21as filed, not named
PutWritten103.8752026-05-22as filed, not named
CallWritten109.52026-08-21as filed, not named
CallWritten1282026-05-22as filed, not named
PutWritten1072026-08-21as filed, not named
PutWritten103.52026-05-22as filed, not named

34 more in leverage.json.

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

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 FTCB (314.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
DFGP Dimensional Global Core Plus Fixed Income ETF 1,540 284.7 11.54% 2026-07-31
BBAG JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 1,810 286.5 11.44% 2026-05-31
EAGG iShares ESG Aware U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 5,212 288.9 8.45% 2026-05-31
IGEB iShares Investment Grade Systematic Bond ETF 466 289.4 5.51% 2026-05-31
FLUD Franklin Ultra Short Bond ETF 519 307.6 8.86% 2026-06-30
HYS PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 860 317.8 8.27% 2026-06-30
EMLC VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF 497 318.7 7.34% 2026-06-30
FLOT iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 546 324.5 9.25% 2026-07-31
FTSM First Trust Enhanced Short Maturity ETF 689 328 8.24% 2026-07-31
BSCT Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF 455 334.2 8.28% 2026-05-31

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