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SYSB holdings

SYSB reports 838 holdings and behaves like 79 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

7.5% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 50.5

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.

838 Positions reported
79 Effective holdings
10.6× Concentration multiple
26.34% 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: 14.23% at a quoted market price (level 1), 17 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

The largest line in SYSB's filing is not a stock but BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares, a short-term position at 7.81% of net assets. Ten companies are 26.34% of the fund; the other 828 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, SYSB behaves like 79 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 3.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings SYSB has become more concentrated: it behaved like 164.2 at 2019-10-31 and 83.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 145 positions were added and 180 dropped; 33.1% 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 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, SYSB went from behaving like 164.2 equally weighted positions to 83.1 — 49% fewer, while its top ten went from 19.04% to 26.09% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 859 83.1 26.09% 7.31%
2026-01-31 894 60.3 32.91% 8.05%
2025-10-31 631 37.2 39.72% 12.5%
2025-07-31 1,017 161.6 18.41% 4.1%
2025-04-30 866 120.8 19.53% 6.19%
2025-01-31 895 212.1 14.75% 3.56%
2024-10-31 933 229.5 13.49% 3.49%
2024-07-31 928 212.4 13.93% 3.87%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 917 195.8 15.03% 4.07%
2024-01-31 883 166.1 16.71% 4.66%
2023-10-31 876 155.1 17.07% 4.95%
2023-07-31 749 147.6 16.72% 5.59%
2023-04-30 715 157.7 16.36% 5.27%
2023-01-31 680 134 18.25% 5.58%
2022-10-31 657 134.8 19.17% 4.82%
2022-07-31 738 145.2 18.42% 4.65%
2022-04-30 724 158.4 18.21% 2.93%
2022-01-31 751 52.4 32.86% 9.44%
2021-10-31 775 89.3 25.52% 6.99%
2021-07-31 774 90.5 24.1% 6.63%
2021-04-30 747 158.4 18.15% 3.04%
2021-01-31 747 145.7 19.72% 3.36%
2020-10-31 748 121 21.1% 4.21%
2020-07-31 705 48.7 33.73% 10.94%
2020-04-30 943 126.2 20.7% 5.05%
2020-01-31 938 128.2 21.99% 4.34%
2019-10-31 873 164.2 19.04% 3.75%

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

7.52% collateral

SYSB's filing lists 839 positions including 7.52% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 50.5 effective holdings with a top ten of 33.83%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 79 with a top ten of 26.34%. 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 838 positions in SYSB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SYSB.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS7.32%7.3%
2United States Treasury3.50%10.8%
3United States Treasury3.37%14.2%
4United States Treasury2.57%16.8%
5United States Treasury2.16%18.9%
6United States Treasury1.66%20.6%
7United States Treasury1.61%22.2%
8United States Treasury1.37%23.6%
9United States Treasury1.33%24.9%
10UMBS, TBA1.21%26.1%
11United States Treasury1.20%27.3%
12United States Treasury1.20%28.5%
13United States Treasury1.19%29.7%
14United States Treasury1.14%30.8%
15United States Treasury1.07%31.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of SYSB'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 93.57%
United Kingdom 2.03%
Canada 1.78%
Australia 0.50%
Japan 0.42%
Luxembourg° 0.39%
Not stated in filing 0.30%
Netherlands° 0.21%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

6.1%Last twelve months filed
13%Whole series, compounded
3.9%Best month
-5.0%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: SYSB.json · all funds.

Who borrows SYSB'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, $84m was out to 25 borrowers. The largest, TD Securities (USA) LLC, Cowen, held 27.2% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
TD Securities (USA) LLC, Cowen $23m 27.2%
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $14m 16.1%
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC $10m 11.8%
RBC Capital Markets LLC $6m 7.1%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $5m 5.4%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

892 positions became 857: 145 added (23.2% of the fund at the later date), 180 dropped (19.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 33.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SYSB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
United States Treasury0.17%1.66% United States Treasury3.39%1.19%
United States Treasury0.14%0.92% United States Treasury1.91%1.07%
United States Treasury0.89%1.37% BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS8.07%7.32%
United States Treasury2.90%3.37% United States Treasury1.61%1.20%
United States Treasury2.12%2.57% United States Treasury1.58%1.20%
BANK OF AMERICA CORP0.07%0.22% United States Treasury1.65%1.33%

New: United States Treasury (2.16%), UMBS, TBA (1.21%), United States Treasury (1.14%), United States Treasury (1.07%), United States Treasury (1.05%), United States Treasury (1.01%). Gone: United States Treasury (5.99%), United States Treasury (1.61%), UMBS, TBA (0.59%), UMBS, TBA (0.58%), UMBS, TBA (0.53%), UMBS, TBA (0.49%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT71.67%
short-term investment STIV14.16%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS14.10%
DIR DIR0.07%

14.2% of SYSB 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 $1.02B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
4.88%Futures notional (5)
4.9%Sum, % of net assets

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 SYSB (79). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
JFLX JPMorgan Flexible Debt ETF 1,630 73.4 * 22.52% 2026-05-31
VGLT Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund 98 75.1 21.65% 2026-05-31
SPTL State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF 101 75.8 21.59% 2026-06-30
SCHQ Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 100 75.9 21.59% 2026-06-30
GTO Invesco Total Return Bond ETF 1,793 78.9 29.04% 2026-07-31
JCPB JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 2,677 81.3 21.19% 2026-05-31
SCHR Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 102 82.4 19.13% 2026-06-30
SHY iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 90 83.2 16.11% 2026-05-31
VGIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund 104 84 18.93% 2026-05-31
CGCP Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 1,476 84.5 * 25.35% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine SYSB

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