Federated Hermes Ultrashort Bond Fund
Actively managed U.S. bond fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Federated Hermes Ultrashort Bond Fund held 548 positions with $4.25B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 16.6% of the fund. The FULAX share class costs 0.52% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, FULAX returned 4.9%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 74 new positions and exited 31.
The Funds investment objective is to provide total return consistent with current income.
The fund invests primarily in investment-grade fixed-income securities, including asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities and corporate debt, with up to 35% in noninvestment-grade debt; it may also hold other investment companies, including funds advised by the adviser or its affiliates, rather than securities directly. The adviser allocates the portfolio across fixed-income sectors based on expected risk-adjusted returns and manages interest-rate risk by limiting dollar-weighted average effective duration to one year or less. Because the fund's security selections depend on the adviser's expectations of relative sector performance, results may diverge from those expectations.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
FEDERATED HERMES MONEY MARKET OBLIGATIONS TRUST | 3.98% | $168.80M | — | — |
Federated Core Trust - Federated Bank Loan Core Fund | 3.51% | $148.93M | 17.8M | $8.35 |
Federated Core Trust III - Federated Project and Trade Finance Core Fund | 2.51% | $106.50M | 11.9M | $8.95 |
United States Treasury 3.84% floating · due 2028-04-30 | 2.36% | $100.05M | — | — |
PRUDENTIAL QMA STRAT VAL- | 1.00% | $42.56M | 4.6M | $9.17 |
Government National Mortgage Association 4.61% floating · due 2055-10-20 | 0.78% | $32.89M | — | — |
Government National Mortgage Association 4.56% floating · due 2056-03-20 | 0.65% | $27.79M | — | — |
Government National Mortgage Association 4.61% floating · due 2054-07-20 | 0.64% | $27.36M | — | — |
Fannie Mae 4.03% floating · due 2050-01-25 | 0.62% | $26.15M | — | — |
Fannie Mae 4.58% floating · due 2055-03-25 | 0.59% | $25.13M | — | — |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
The 200 largest of 548 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%.
| Securitized | 54.95% |
| Bonds | 34.48% |
| Cash & short-term | 4.23% |
| Stocks | 3.51% |
| Loans | 3.09% |
| Derivatives | -0.00% |
Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 3.51% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified.
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.
By sector
- Securitized
- 54.9%
- Other
- 15.5%
- Financials
- 9.6%
- International
- 5.1%
- 11 other sectors
- 14.8%
- Securitized
- 54.9%
- Other
- 15.5%
- Financials
- 9.6%
- International
- 5.1%
- Government
- 4.1%
- Cash
- 4.0%
- Information Technology
- 1.8%
- Utilities
- 1.2%
- Health Care
- 0.9%
- Consumer Staples
- 0.6%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 0.6%
- Communication Services
- 0.5%
- Energy
- 0.5%
- Industrials
- 0.4%
- Real Estate
- 0.1%
How it has done
FULAX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 0.62%. 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 4 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.52% | +4.86% | +17.59% | +18.40% | -0.07% | |
| 0.37% | +5.02% | +17.99% | +19.13% | -0.06% | |
| 0.47% | +4.79% | +17.66% | +18.54% | -0.07% | |
| 0.36% | +5.04% | +18.21% | +19.22% | -0.06% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.83pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.17pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Federated Hermes Ultrashort 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
- Short duration
- Features
- Fund of funds
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.36% – 0.52%· FULAX 0.52%
- Portfolio turnover
- 30.00% a year · as of 2025 Q4
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
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.
74 new· the largest 7
31 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.
| Floating rate | 43.2% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 40.9% |
| Fixed rate | 15.9% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 7.5% |
| 1-3y | 25.4% |
| 3-5y | 6.7% |
| 5-10y | 0.7% |
| 10y+ | 20.8% |
| Unknown | 38.9% |
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 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.
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.
| Credit spreads | 54% |
| Interest rates | 46% |
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 | +0.99 yr |
| High yield | +0.07 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 | 0.05 yr | 6% |
| 1 yr | 0.48 yr | 53% |
| 5 yr | 0.34 yr | 38% |
| 10 yr | 0.02 yr | 2% |
| 30 yr | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 3 mo | 0.03 yr | 3% |
| 1 yr | 0.56 yr | 53% |
| 5 yr | 0.45 yr | 43% |
| 10 yr | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 30 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 | +0.05 | +0.03 | +0.00 | $14.0k | $365 |
| 1 yr | +0.48 | +0.53 | +0.03 | $224.6k | $11.6k |
| 5 yr | +0.34 | +0.41 | +0.04 | $174.8k | $18.1k |
| 10 yr | +0.02 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $5.6k | $153 |
| 30 yr | +0.01 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $412 | $21 |
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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