Fund · First Trust Senior Loan Fund · measured from SEC filings
FTSL holdings
FTSL reports 379 holdings and behaves like 80.9 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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 9.01% at a quoted market price (level 1), 12 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31The largest line in FTSL's filing is not a stock but Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds Treas PTF Inst, a short-term position at 9.54% of net assets. Ten companies are 19.3% of the fund; the other 369 share the rest. Among the 6 loan funds measured here, FTSL behaves like 80.9 holdings against a median of 105.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FTSL has become more concentrated: it behaved like 100.7 at 2019-10-31 and 73.5 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 74 positions were added and 92 dropped; 28.7% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable loan funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FTSL went from behaving like 100.7 equally weighted positions to 73.5 — 27% fewer, while its top ten went from 20.39% to 21.11% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 319 | 73.5 | 21.11% | 9.1% |
| 2026-01-31 | 341 | 137.2 | 15.98% | 4.42% |
| 2025-10-31 | 334 | 129 | 17.13% | 4.67% |
| 2025-07-31 | 315 | 108.9 | 18.4% | 5.76% |
| 2025-04-30 | 280 | 79.4 | 20.79% | 8.1% |
| 2025-01-31 | 286 | 61.1 | 21.97% | 10.3% |
| 2024-10-31 | 239 | 96.9 | 18.84% | 5.4% |
| 2024-07-31 | 231 | 76.7 | 21.24% | 7.75% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 222 | 82 | 20.8% | 6.88% |
| 2024-01-31 | 213 | 71.9 | 23.95% | 7.39% |
| 2023-10-31 | 203 | 74.8 | 25.13% | 5.75% |
| 2023-07-31 | 193 | 62.3 | 28.09% | 6.79% |
| 2023-04-28 | 189 | 67 | 27.92% | 4.81% |
| 2023-01-31 | 199 | 54.9 | 29.67% | 8.73% |
| 2022-10-31 | 219 | 76.5 | 24.69% | 4.77% |
| 2022-07-29 | 233 | 91.3 | 20.08% | 2.21% |
| 2022-04-29 | 310 | 88.1 | 20.53% | 6.04% |
| 2022-01-31 | 328 | 44.8 | 25.16% | 12.79% |
| 2021-10-29 | 316 | 57.9 | 23.82% | 10.36% |
| 2021-07-30 | 291 | 39 | 27.59% | 13.88% |
| 2021-04-30 | 269 | 43.3 | 27.09% | 12.73% |
| 2021-01-29 | 201 | 58.2 | 26.29% | 8.91% |
| 2020-10-30 | 171 | 75.1 | 24.05% | 4.8% |
| 2020-07-31 | 184 | 78.9 | 23.66% | 4.86% |
| 2020-04-30 | 193 | 67.5 | 25.82% | 7.36% |
| 2020-01-31 | 230 | 80.4 | 23.36% | 6.35% |
| 2019-10-31 | 221 | 100.7 | 20.39% | 2.58% |
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 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 379 positions in FTSL's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTSL.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS | 9.10% | 9.1% |
| 2 | Whatabrands LLC | 1.94% | 11.0% |
| 3 | Acrisure LLC | 1.80% | 12.8% |
| 4 | AthenaHealth Group Inc | 1.71% | 14.6% |
| 5 | Quikrete Holdings Inc | 1.55% | 16.1% |
| 6 | IRB Holding Corp | 1.52% | 17.6% |
| 7 | White Cap Supply Holdings LLC(f/k/a White Cap Buyer LLC) | 1.24% | 18.9% |
| 8 | OneDigital Borrower LLC | 1.22% | 20.1% |
| 9 | Transdigm Inc | 1.18% | 21.3% |
| 10 | TAMKO Building Products Inc | 1.18% | 22.4% |
| 11 | Proofpoint Inc | 1.18% | 23.6% |
| 12 | POST HOLDINGS INC | 1.11% | 24.7% |
| 13 | Leia Finco US LLC | 1.08% | 25.8% |
| 14 | Clarios Global LP | 1.07% | 26.9% |
| 15 | HIG Finance 2 Limited | 1.06% | 27.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FTSL's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 98.08% |
| Canada | 1.03% |
| Bermuda° | 0.41% |
| United Kingdom | 0.33% |
| Ireland° | 0.15% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTSL's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.15 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTSL.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30285 positions became 267: 74 added (15.4% of the fund at the later date), 92 dropped (20.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 28.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTSL compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS | 4.42% | 9.10% | Waystar Technologies Inc | 1.04% | 0.25% |
| TAMKO Building Products Inc | 0.60% | 1.18% | Project Ruby Ultimate Parent Corp | 1.36% | 0.76% |
| Ardonagh Group Finco Pty Ltd | 0.21% | 0.76% | Gainwell Acquisition Corp | 0.83% | 0.23% |
| IRB Holding Corp | 1.03% | 1.52% | Ryan Specialty Group LLC | 0.87% | 0.36% |
| Filtration Group Corporation | 0.63% | 1.02% | First Advantage Holdings LLC | 0.62% | 0.13% |
| White Cap Supply Holdings LLC(f/k/a White Cap Buyer LLC) | 0.84% | 1.24% | Vista Management Holding Inc. | 0.48% | 0.04% |
New: 1011778 BC Unlimited Liability Company (1.04%), Triton Water Holdings Inc (0.75%), Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc (0.64%), MI Windows and Doors LLC (0.60%), Anticimex Global AB (f/k/a Seren Bidco AB) (0.53%), Action Environmental Group Inc, The (0.51%). Gone: X Corp (f/k/a Twitter Inc) (1.26%), Triton Water Holdings Inc (0.72%), Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. (0.65%), Froneri International Limited (0.55%), Miter Brands Acquisition Holdco, Inc. (0.53%), Lumen Technologies, Inc. (0.52%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| loan LON | 77.07% |
| debt DBT | 13.92% |
| short-term investment STIV | 9.01% |
9.0% of FTSL 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.
Neighbours by effective holdings, loan funds
5Every measured loan fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTSL (80.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JHLN John Hancock Global Senior Loan ETF | 438 | 25.4 | 24.64% | 2026-06-30 |
| TFLR T. Rowe Price Floating Rate ETF | 360 | 55.6 | 21.95% | 2026-05-31 |
| FLRT Pacer Aristotle Pacific Floating Rate High Income ETF | 319 | 129.8 | 13.58% | 2026-07-31 |
| SRLN State Street(R) Blackstone Senior Loan ETF | 743 | 132.2 | 17.33% | 2026-06-30 |
| HYBL State Street(R) Blackstone High Income ETF | 643 | 243.2 | 11.58% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine FTSL
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