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LEMB holdings

LEMB reports 487 holdings and behaves like 254.9 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 2026-07-31
487 Positions reported
254.9 Effective holdings
1.9× Concentration multiple
11.7% 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: 0.13% at a quoted market price (level 1), 21 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

LEMB's largest investment is Uruguay Government International Bond at 1.34% of net assets. Dominican Republic International Bond and Serbia Treasury Bonds follow; the three together are 4%. Ten companies are 11.7% of the fund; the other 477 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, LEMB behaves like 254.9 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings LEMB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 124.7 at 2019-10-31 and 264.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 13 positions were added and 13 dropped; 7.1% of the weight moved. China is the largest country at 15.35% of the portfolio, across 21 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, LEMB went from behaving like 124.7 equally weighted positions to 264.8 — 112% more, while its top ten went from 19.04% to 10.84% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 480 264.8 10.84% 1.38%
2026-01-31 483 270 10.83% 1.39%
2025-10-31 442 255.9 11.08% 1.85%
2025-07-31 423 246.6 11.67% 1.84%
2025-04-30 388 237.1 11.45% 1.8%
2025-01-31 380 211 13.5% 2%
2024-10-31 380 206.5 13.97% 2.15%
2024-07-31 353 192.9 14.1% 2.24%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 333 181.8 14.78% 2.31%
2024-01-31 340 170.2 15.92% 2.63%
2023-10-31 339 142.4 17.57% 4.52%
2023-07-31 379 172.6 16.24% 2.87%
2023-04-30 353 163.2 17.12% 2.75%
2023-01-31 343 114.6 21.28% 4.48%
2022-10-31 297 109.5 21.43% 4.5%
2022-07-31 281 117.3 20.14% 4.52%
2022-04-30 283 130.6 19.99% 3.22%
2022-01-31 295 134.2 19.89% 2.98%
2021-10-31 283 133.3 18.92% 3.12%
2021-07-31 276 129.5 19.23% 3.08%
2021-04-30 264 135.6 18.09% 2.96%
2021-01-31 252 129.9 18.41% 3.1%
2020-10-31 242 132.2 17.62% 3.12%
2020-07-31 237 129.5 18.86% 3.15%
2020-04-30 219 125.3 19.06% 2.94%
2020-01-31 220 118.9 20.1% 3.21%
2019-10-31 219 124.7 19.04% 2.39%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY1.38%1.4%
2DOMINICAN REPUBLIC1.38%2.8%
3SERBIA TREASURY BONDS1.36%4.1%
4DOMINICAN REPUBLIC1.12%5.2%
5REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY1.11%6.4%
6TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND1.09%7.4%
7REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY1.04%8.5%
8SERBIA TREASURY BONDS1.01%9.5%
9SERBIA TREASURY BONDS0.86%10.4%
10TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND0.79%11.2%
11SERBIA TREASURY BONDS0.77%11.9%
12DOMINICAN REPUBLIC0.77%12.7%
13DOMINICAN REPUBLIC0.76%13.5%
14NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL0.75%14.2%
15TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND0.72%14.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
China 15.05%
India 8.87%
Mexico 6.05%
Malaysia 5.53%
Indonesia 5.24%
Poland 4.94%
Thailand 4.91%
Brazil 4.67%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

11.1%Last twelve months filed
2%Whole series, compounded
6.7%Best month
-11.0%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: LEMB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

432 positions became 432: 13 added (1.1% of the fund at the later date), 13 dropped (1.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of LEMB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
SERBIA TREASURY BONDS0.95%1.36% SERBIA TREASURY BONDS0.91%0.77%
HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND0.09%0.23% SERBIA TREASURY BONDS1.13%1.01%
POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND0.24%0.37% SERBIA TREASURY BONDS0.98%0.86%
POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND0.26%0.39% CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND0.29%0.19%
HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND0.39%0.52% CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND0.26%0.16%
TITULOS DE TESORERIA0.22%0.33% CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND0.21%0.11%

New: REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.25%), REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.18%), REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.12%), BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES (0.09%), THAILAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.07%), THAILAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.07%). Gone: HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND (0.16%), ROMANIA GOVERNMENT BOND (0.15%), MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT (0.13%), POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.13%), TITULOS DE TESORERIA (0.12%), CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND (0.11%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

99.87% debt, 0.13% short-term investment as filed; 0.1% 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 LEMB (254.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
UITB VictoryShares Core Intermediate Bond ETF 1,182 239.6 15.5% 2026-06-30
DUSB Dimensional Ultrashort Fixed Income ETF 571 240.9 9.21% 2026-07-31
AVSF Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income ETF 518 252.4 10.17% 2026-05-31
KORP American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF 360 253.5 8.82% 2026-05-31
VSDB Vanguard Short Duration Bond ETF 1,317 254.1 13.95% 2026-06-30
FLTR VanEck IG Floating Rate ETF 464 260.2 9.38% 2026-07-31
BSV Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund 3,186 260.9 8.45% 2026-06-30
JHCR John Hancock Core Bond ETF 962 262.2 12.88% 2026-06-30
BLV Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund 2,984 263 11.11% 2026-06-30
JPHY JPMorgan Active High Yield ETF 532 266 9.91% 2026-05-31

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