Baird Core Plus Bond Fund
Actively managed U.S. bond fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Baird Core Plus Bond Fund held 2,148 positions with $46.19B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 13.2% of the fund. The BCOIX share class costs 0.3% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, BCOIX returned 5.4%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 112 new positions and exited 61.
The investment objective of the Baird Core Plus Bond Fund (the Fund) is to seek an annual rate of total return, before fund expenses, greater than the annual rate of total return of the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index.
The fund seeks to outperform the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index by actively selecting investment-grade and high-yield debt obligations across government, corporate, and mortgage-backed sectors, positioning along the yield curve, allocating across sectors, and choosing individual securities it believes offer superior value while maintaining portfolio duration near the benchmark's. Because security selection drives outperformance, the fund's returns depend on whether those picks succeed relative to the index.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
First American Government Obli | 2.50% | $1.16B | — |
US TREASURY N/B 1.13% · due 2040-08-15 | 1.40% | $646.93M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 3.38% · due 2033-05-15 | 1.35% | $623.22M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 4.25% · due 2054-02-15 | 1.31% | $606.27M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 3.50% · due 2029-03-15 | 1.18% | $543.54M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 3.38% · due 2042-08-15 | 1.15% | $533.09M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 3.88% · due 2043-05-15 | 1.14% | $526.06M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 2.88% · due 2043-05-15 | 1.12% | $516.70M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 4.25% · due 2033-03-31 | 1.05% | $486.40M | — |
US TREASURY N/B 4.63% · due 2045-11-15 | 1.04% | $479.25M | — |
The 200 largest of 2,148 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Bonds | 71.13% |
| Securitized | 26.30% |
| Cash & short-term | 2.50% |
By sector
- Securitized
- 26.3%
- Government
- 23.1%
- International
- 15.0%
- Other
- 12.5%
- 12 other sectors
- 23.1%
- Securitized
- 26.3%
- Government
- 23.1%
- International
- 15.0%
- Other
- 12.5%
- Financials
- 8.3%
- Cash
- 2.5%
- Information Technology
- 2.3%
- Industrials
- 1.9%
- Utilities
- 1.8%
- Health Care
- 1.8%
- Communication Services
- 1.1%
- Energy
- 1.0%
- Materials
- 0.8%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 0.7%
- Real Estate
- 0.5%
- Consumer Staples
- 0.4%
How it has done
BCOIX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 3.16%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 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.
The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.30% | +5.44% | +15.28% | +4.18% | -4.43% | |
| 0.55% | +5.19% | +14.40% | +2.85% | -4.47% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 1.33pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.27pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Baird Core Plus Bond 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
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.30% – 0.55%· BCOIX 0.30%
- Portfolio turnover
- 32.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
112 new· the largest 7
61 exited· the largest 7
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
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 | 82.2% |
| Floating rate | 17.8% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 1.9% |
| 1-3y | 14.6% |
| 3-5y | 16.3% |
| 5-10y | 20.7% |
| 10y+ | 46.5% |
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 2026Q2
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 | 51% |
| Credit spreads | 49% |
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 | +5.38 yr |
| High yield | +0.11 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 | 0.09 yr | 2% |
| 1 yr | 0.47 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 1.19 yr | 21% |
| 10 yr | 2.17 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.73 yr | 31% |
| 3 mo | 0.08 yr | 2% |
| 1 yr | 0.46 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 1.18 yr | 21% |
| 10 yr | 2.09 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.67 yr | 30% |
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 | +0.09 | +0.07 | +0.02 | $302.6k | $88.2k |
| 1 yr | +0.47 | +0.43 | +0.04 | $1.97m | $168.1k |
| 5 yr | +1.19 | +1.14 | +0.04 | $5.27m | $171.9k |
| 10 yr | +2.17 | +2.08 | +0.02 | $9.60m | $71.4k |
| 30 yr | +1.73 | +1.66 | +0.00 | $7.69m | $11.3k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
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