Aristotle Strategic Income Fund

Aristotle Fund Series Trust · 5 share classes

Actively managed U.S. bond fund
One fund, 5 share classes:PLCNXPLSRXPLSTXPLSFXPLSHX
$4.08B NAV
472 positions · as of 2026-06-30 · filed 2026-08-26

Fund classification

Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2

Aristotle Strategic Income Fund is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
Mixed credit
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4

Aristotle Strategic Income Fund (the Fund) seeks a high level of current income.

Strategy · summarised

The fund invests in income-producing debt instruments, with allocations between investment-grade and non-investment-grade debt determined by a sub-adviser based on market conditions; non-investment-grade debt may comprise up to 70% of assets, while investment-grade debt may reach 65%. The sub-adviser selects individual issuers through fundamental research assessing competitive position, management quality, and debt repayment capacity, and may sell positions when price targets are met or relative value diminishes. Because portfolio allocations shift with the sub-adviser's market views, the fund's exposure to non-investment-grade debt—which carries higher credit risk—will vary.

Expenses
0.59% 1.69%across 5 share classes
Share classExpense ratioAs of
PLCNX1.69%2026 Q1
PLSRX0.59%2026 Q1
PLSTX0.94%2026 Q1
PLSFX0.69%2026 Q1
PLSHX0.60%2025 Q4

Portfolio turnover 45.00% · as of 2025 Q4

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2

109.80%
of net assets
Bonds70.97%
Loans16.00%
Cash & short-term11.03%
Securitized10.46%
Stocks1.35%

These positions come to 109.80% 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%.

Sector allocation

The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2

100%
of net assets
Other41.0%
Financials14.2%
Securitized9.5%
International8.5%
10 smaller26.8%

Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q2 vs 2026Q1: 68 new73 exited

Largest new: HUT 8 DC LLC, QTS FAYETTEV I DC1-2/TRS, DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC, Angel Oak Mortgage Trust, COREWEAVE FINANCING DDT, META PLATFORMS INC, BEACON POINT DC LLC, SWORD PURCHASER LLC

Largest exited: KAMAN CORP, GLP CAPITAL LP / FIN II, US TREASURY N/B ×3, JM SMUCKER CO, SPX FLOW INC, AMENTUM HOLDINGS INC

Return profile

Chart:

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026

Share class1-year3-year5-yearVolWorst fall
+5.87%+18.05%2.53%-3.19%
+6.95%+21.91%2.56%-3.05%
+6.54%+20.65%2.55%-3.08%
+6.79%+21.37%2.52%-3.03%
Cumulative return· Jul 2023 – Apr 2026

May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are 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 2026-06-30

Avg coupon
6.19%
Avg maturity
10.63 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

43%
floating
Fixed rate57.1%
Floating rate42.9%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

1-3y10y+
1-3y5.0%
3-5y18.9%
5-10y49.8%
10y+26.3%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: 0.68% · $27.09M · 2 positions

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 2026Q2

More of this fund’s sensitivity sits in credit spreads than in interest rates — a rate rally that comes with a credit selloff works against it.

Interest-rate duration
4.33 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
5.06 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

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.

≈ -9.5%
of value
Credit spreads54%
Interest rates46%

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.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+5.06
yrs total
Investment grade+3.56 yr
High yield+1.50 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate4.33 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.18 yr4%
1 yr0.57 yr13%
5 yr1.19 yr27%
10 yr1.79 yr41%
30 yr0.61 yr14%
Credit spread5.06 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.82 yr16%
1 yr0.66 yr13%
5 yr1.24 yr25%
10 yr1.76 yr35%
30 yr0.58 yr11%

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
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.18+0.15+0.67$62.1k$272.6k
1 yr+0.57+0.18+0.48$73.6k$194.4k
5 yr+1.19+0.96+0.28$392.0k$113.9k
10 yr+1.79+1.68+0.08$686.8k$31.2k
30 yr+0.61+0.58+0.00$236.8k$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

Issuer%NAVValue
Clear Street LLC4.90%$200.00M
Goldman Sachs Trust4.18%$170.68M
US BANK MMDA - USBGFS 91.94%$79.23M
PROOFPOINT INC6.70% floating · due 2028-08-311.14%$46.54M
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC5.39% floating · due 2041-02-020.84%$34.11M
UKG INC5.91% floating · due 2031-02-100.82%$33.59M
US TREASURY N/B4.75% · due 2037-02-150.82%$33.42M
TRANSDIGM INC6.38% · due 2033-05-310.82%$33.36M
CITIGROUP INC5.41% floating · due 2039-09-190.77%$31.50M
BEIGNET INVESTOR LLC6.58% · due 2049-05-300.77%$31.35M
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Top 10 positions are 17.01% of net assets, top 25 27.24%, across 250 issuers.

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