Columbia Balanced Fund
COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I · Series S000012068 · 7 share classes
data updated 2026-08-17
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
Columbia Balanced Fund (the Fund) seeks high total return by investing in common stocks and debt securities.
The fund allocates its assets between large-capitalization equities and investment-grade debt securities, typically maintaining 35% to 65% in each asset class, with flexibility to range from 25% to 75%. It pursues value-oriented strategies in stock selection and may hold up to 10% in below-investment-grade debt and 20% in foreign securities. Because the fund's allocation between equity and debt shifts based on the manager's assessment of relative risks and returns, its exposure to either asset class will vary over time.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| CBLAX | 0.91% |
| CBLCX | 1.66% |
| CBALX | 0.66% |
| CBLRX | 1.16% |
| CLREX | 0.62% |
| CBDYX | 0.57% |
| CBABX | 0.66% |
Portfolio turnover 160.00% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1
| Stocks | 62.99% |
| Securitized | 26.97% |
| Bonds | 8.61% |
| Cash & short-term | 3.48% |
| 2 smaller | 0.05% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026
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Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-02-28
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 | 61.5% |
| Floating rate | 38.5% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 3.8% |
| 1-3y | 4.7% |
| 3-5y | 6.6% |
| 5-10y | 12.4% |
| 10y+ | 72.4% |
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 nearly 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 | 59% |
| Credit spreads | 41% |
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 | +1.30 yr |
| High yield | +0.15 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.24 yr | 11% |
| 5 yr | 0.67 yr | 32% |
| 10 yr | 0.78 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 0.35 yr | 17% |
| 3 mo | 0.13 yr | 9% |
| 1 yr | 0.03 yr | 2% |
| 5 yr | 0.16 yr | 11% |
| 10 yr | 0.25 yr | 17% |
| 30 yr | 0.88 yr | 61% |
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 | +0.02 | +0.13 | +0.00 | $129.7k | $30 |
| 1 yr | +0.24 | +0.03 | +0.00 | $27.9k | $3.6k |
| 5 yr | +0.67 | +0.11 | +0.05 | $115.1k | $47.6k |
| 10 yr | +0.78 | +0.22 | +0.03 | $223.5k | $25.5k |
| 30 yr | +0.35 | +0.81 | +0.07 | $813.9k | $72.9k |
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 2.06 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 | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | NVIDIA CorpNVDA | 4.81% | $177.19 | $485.51M | 2.7M |
| AAPL | Apple IncAAPL | 3.72% | $264.18 | $375.72M | 1.4M |
| MSFT | Microsoft CorpMSFT | 3.65% | $392.74 | $368.07M | 937.2K |
| — | COLUMBIA SHORT TERM CASH FUND | 3.48% | — | $351.23M | — |
| — | iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF | 2.92% | $98.32 | $294.34M | 3.0M |
| AMZN | Amazon.com IncAMZN | 2.69% | $210.00 | $271.55M | 1.3M |
| GOOGL | Alphabet IncGOOGL | 1.94% | $311.76 | $195.53M | 627.2K |
| LLY | Eli Lilly & CoLLY | 1.63% | $1,051.99 | $164.60M | 156.5K |
| AVGO | Broadcom IncAVGO | 1.61% | $319.55 | $162.72M | 509.2K |
| GOOG | Alphabet IncGOOG | 1.59% | $311.43 | $160.57M | 515.6K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-02-28 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 28.03% of net assets, top 25 43.12%, across 543 issuers.
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