Ultra Short Income Portfolio
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL FUND TRUST · Series S000052013 · 3 share classes
data updated 2026-08-17
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The Ultra-Short Income Portfolio (the Fund) seeks current income with capital preservation while maintaining liquidity.
The fund invests in high-quality, liquid money market instruments including commercial paper, bank debt, certificates of deposit, asset-backed securities, and government obligations, with all securities rated in the top two rating categories or equivalent. Under normal circumstances the fund maintains a maximum weighted average maturity of 90 days and weighted average life of 180 days. The fund pursues a fundamental policy of holding at least 25% of assets in financial services companies, though may temporarily hold less as a defensive measure. Because credit quality depends on ongoing assessment of issuer creditworthiness and the fund is not a money market fund, net asset value per share will fluctuate.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| MUIIX | 0.35% | 0.30% |
| MULSX | 0.30% | 0.25% |
| MUAIX | 0.55% | 0.40% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1
| Cash & short-term | 80.06% |
| Bonds | 20.11% |
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Societe Generale SA, NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA ×2, Bayerische Landesbank/New York, Credit Industriel et Commercial/New York, Deutsche Bank AG/New York NY
Largest exited: Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto-Dominion Bank, ATHENE GLOBAL FUNDING, EQUITABLE FINANCIAL LIFE, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL CO, BAYERISCHE LANDESBANK NY ×2, DEUTSCHE BANK NY
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — |
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 | 61.9% |
| Floating rate | 38.1% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 97.5% |
| 1-3y | 2.5% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
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 | 95% |
| Credit spreads | 5% |
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 | +0.07 yr |
| High yield | +0.05 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 | 0.13 yr | 5% |
| 1 yr | 0.20 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 0.00 yr | 0% |
| 10 yr | 0.46 yr | 19% |
| 30 yr | 1.65 yr | 68% |
| 3 mo | 0.06 yr | 48% |
| 1 yr | 0.06 yr | 52% |
| 5 yr | 0.00 yr | 0% |
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 | +0.13 | +0.04 | +0.02 | $68.9k | $32.7k |
| 1 yr | +0.20 | +0.03 | +0.03 | $58.3k | $53.5k |
| 5 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $16 | $0 |
| 10 yr | +0.46 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 30 yr | +1.65 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Bank of Nova Scotia | 3.88% | $705.00M | — |
| — | CREDIT INDUST ET COMM NY | 2.83% | $513.52M | — |
| — | JPMorgan Securities LLC | 2.73% | $495.00M | — |
| — | Toronto-Dominion Bank | 2.64% | $480.00M | — |
| — | BofA Securities, Inc. | 2.34% | $425.00M | — |
| — | Wells Fargo Securities LLC | 2.31% | $419.00M | — |
| — | Societe Generale SA | 2.27% | $412.00M | — |
| — | NATL BANK OF KUWAIT NY | 2.22% | $403.67M | — |
| — | CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS4.20% floating · due 2027-01-04 | 2.19% | $397.75M | — |
| — | NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA | 1.93% | $350.19M | — |
Top 10 positions are 25.33% of net assets, top 25 43.99%, across 106 issuers.
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