TCW METWEST TOTAL RETURN BOND FUND
TCW Metropolitan West Funds · Series S000001147 · 5 share classes
data updated 2026-08-10
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3
The Total Return Bond Fund seeks to maximize long-term total return.
The fund seeks to maximize total return by investing primarily in investment-grade fixed income securities globally, with up to 20% in below-investment-grade debt, focusing on areas the adviser believes offer attractive risk-adjusted returns relative to other bond market segments. The fund maintains a portfolio duration of two to eight years and may hold foreign securities, emerging market debt, bank loans, mortgage and asset-backed securities, and derivatives; it may also short sell up to 25% of assets and engage in active trading. Because security selection depends on the adviser's assessment of relative value across bond market segments, returns will diverge from any benchmark.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| MWTIX | 0.44% |
| MWTRX | 0.65% |
| MWTNX | 0.78% |
| MWTSX | 0.37% |
| MWTTX | 0.51% |
| C000263829 | 0.57% |
Portfolio turnover 418.00% · as of 2025 Q3
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1
| Securitized | 55.56% |
| Bonds | 40.79% |
| Stocks | 14.47% |
| Loans | 2.14% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.20% |
| Derivatives | -0.19% |
These positions come to 112.97% of the fund's net assets. This counts only what the fund reported holding — the holdings disclosure covers assets, not liabilities such as borrowings — so it is not expected to reconcile to 100%.
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: United States Treasury ×6, UMBS, TBA ×2
Largest exited: United States Treasury ×6, Government National Mortgage Association ×2
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
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Mar 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-03-31
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 80.6% |
| Floating rate | 19.1% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 0.3% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 2.1% |
| 1-3y | 7.6% |
| 3-5y | 10.7% |
| 5-10y | 16.2% |
| 10y+ | 63.5% |
These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q1
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying a small fraction as much.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 79% |
| Credit spreads | 21% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +1.20 yr |
| High yield | +0.42 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 1 yr | 0.76 yr | 13% |
| 5 yr | 1.81 yr | 30% |
| 10 yr | 2.28 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.21 yr | 20% |
3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.03 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.24 yr | 15% |
| 5 yr | 0.59 yr | 36% |
| 10 yr | 0.61 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 0.17 yr | 11% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | -0.03 | +0.01 | +0.01 | $27.5k | $15.0k |
| 1 yr | +0.76 | +0.15 | +0.08 | $456.4k | $243.9k |
| 5 yr | +1.81 | +0.40 | +0.19 | $1.19m | $561.5k |
| 10 yr | +2.28 | +0.48 | +0.12 | $1.43m | $371.0k |
| 30 yr | +1.21 | +0.15 | +0.02 | $453.1k | $58.2k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 6.03 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TCW Central Cash Fund | 13.66% | $4.06B | 4.1B |
| — | United States Treasury3.88% · due 2031-03-31 | 4.72% | $1.40B | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.25% · due 2033-03-31 | 3.39% | $1.01B | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.75% · due 2056-02-15 | 2.99% | $888.26M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.63% · due 2046-02-15 | 2.99% | $887.39M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA3.50% · due 2056-04-01 | 2.80% | $830.38M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.38% · due 2028-02-29 | 2.74% | $813.73M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA4.00% · due 2056-04-01 | 2.36% | $700.01M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.13% · due 2036-02-15 | 1.98% | $587.74M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA4.50% · due 2056-04-01 | 1.96% | $581.43M | — |
Top 10 positions are 39.58% of net assets, top 25 53.28%, across 554 issuers.
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