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QLTA holdings

QLTA reports 3,502 holdings and behaves like 2213.7 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

9.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 102.5

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.

3,502 Positions reported
2213.7 Effective holdings
1.6× Concentration multiple
1.83% 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: 9.01% at a quoted market price (level 1), 16 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

QLTA's largest investment is Broadcom Inc at 0.35% of net assets. Broadcom Inc and Broadcom Inc follow; the three together are 0.89%. Ten companies are 1.83% of the fund; the other 3,492 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, QLTA behaves like 2213.7 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 9.4 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings QLTA has become less concentrated: it behaved like 991.7 at 2019-10-31 and 2186.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 194 positions were added and 121 dropped; 13.1% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 85.87% of the portfolio, across 16 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

27

Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, QLTA went from behaving like 991.7 equally weighted positions to 2186.1 — 120% more, while its top ten went from 3.04% to 2.09% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 3,437 2186.1 2.09% 0.35%
2026-01-31 3,364 1883.8 2.79% 0.87%
2025-10-31 3,360 2164 2.33% 0.33%
2025-07-31 3,261 2084.6 2.04% 0.6%
2025-04-30 3,139 2044.9 2.07% 0.58%
2025-01-31 3,062 2104.1 1.68% 0.27%
2024-10-31 3,043 2044.5 1.81% 0.25%
2024-07-31 3,027 2042.5 1.66% 0.28%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 2,938 1553.2 2.88% 1.25%
2024-01-31 2,880 1973.1 1.74% 0.34%
2023-10-31 2,831 1935.2 1.71% 0.35%
2023-07-31 2,781 1732.3 2.47% 0.74%
2023-04-30 2,677 1818.5 1.98% 0.62%
2023-01-31 2,643 1921.7 1.57% 0.25%
2022-10-31 2,547 1800.9 1.59% 0.2%
2022-07-31 2,445 1712.8 1.8% 0.3%
2022-04-30 2,444 1664.5 2.02% 0.34%
2022-01-31 2,373 1494.2 2.42% 0.49%
2021-10-31 2,303 1338.7 2.93% 0.91%
2021-07-31 2,262 1501.3 2.35% 0.46%
2021-04-30 2,204 1203.8 3.34% 1.32%
2021-01-31 2,243 1385.3 2.53% 0.67%
2020-10-31 2,246 1352.9 2.62% 0.71%
2020-07-31 2,209 1260.1 2.95% 0.88%
2020-04-30 1,808 741.8 4.66% 2.33%
2020-01-31 1,572 1009.5 2.87% 0.43%
2019-10-31 1,554 991.7 3.04% 0.48%

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

9.65% collateral

QLTA's filing lists 3,503 positions including 9.65% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 102.5 effective holdings with a top ten of 11.31%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 2213.7 with a top ten of 1.83%. 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 3,502 positions in QLTA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BROADCOM INC0.35%0.4%
2BROADCOM INC0.28%0.6%
3BROADCOM INC0.27%0.9%
4ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV0.22%1.1%
5META PLATFORMS INC0.18%1.3%
6META PLATFORMS INC0.17%1.5%
7AMAZON.COM INC0.16%1.6%
8PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER0.16%1.8%
9ANHEUSER-BUSCH CO/INBEV0.15%1.9%
10ABBVIE INC0.15%2.1%
11WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.14%2.2%
12WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.13%2.4%
13PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER0.13%2.5%
14ALPHABET INC0.13%2.6%
15PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER0.12%2.7%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of QLTA'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 84.83%
United Kingdom 3.79%
Canada 3.23%
Japan 3.01%
Australia 1.41%
Singapore 0.78%
Spain 0.74%
Netherlands° 0.60%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

4.6%Last twelve months filed
10%Whole series, compounded
5.8%Best month
-5.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.09 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: QLTA.json · all funds.

Who borrows QLTA'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, $114m was out to 23 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 17.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $20m 17.9%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $19m 17.0%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $19m 16.4%
Wells Fargo Securities LLC $14m 12.0%
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC $8m 7.1%

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 QLTA has filed, with each borrower: QLTA.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

3,364 positions became 3,437: 194 added (6.7% of the fund at the later date), 121 dropped (3.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 13.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of QLTA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC0.03%0.06% BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.87%0.07%
BROADCOM INC0.26%0.28% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC0.17%0.09%
PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES0.01%0.04% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC0.10%0.05%
BROADCOM INC0.33%0.35% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC0.17%0.11%
AMAZON.COM INC0.03%0.05% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC0.08%0.03%
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA0.03%0.05% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC0.09%0.05%

New: AMAZON.COM INC (0.16%), BANK OF AMERICA CORP (0.12%), HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC (0.12%), ALPHABET INC (0.11%), BANK OF AMERICA CORP (0.11%), HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC (0.11%). Gone: MICROSOFT CORP (0.11%), WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (0.09%), HSBC HOLDINGS PLC (0.08%), APPLE INC (0.06%), AMAZON.COM INC (0.06%), COMCAST CORP (0.06%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

90.99% debt, 9.01% short-term investment as filed; 9.0% 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 QLTA (2213.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
VCEB Vanguard ESG U.s. Corporate Bond ETF 2,774 1811.7 1.97% 2026-05-31
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 2,989 1843.2 1.99% 2026-05-31
LQD iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 3,136 1889.9 2.41% 2026-05-31
IGLB iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 3,836 1905.3 2.64% 2026-05-31
SPIB State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 5,147 2196.7 2.69% 2026-06-30
PZA Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 6,664 3341.2 1.1% 2026-05-31
USIG iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 11,459 6893.6 0.73% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine QLTA

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