Franklin Total Return Fund
Franklin Investors Securities Trust · 5 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Franklin Total Return 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
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
High current income, consistent with preservation of capital. As a secondary goal, capital appreciation over the long term.
The fund invests primarily in investment-grade debt securities selected through top-down macroeconomic analysis and bottom-up fundamental assessment of sectors and issuers, with up to 20% of assets permitted in non-investment-grade securities and up to 25% in foreign securities. The manager employs derivatives including futures, options, swaps and currency forwards to gain exposure to interest rates, credit, duration and currencies, and may hold significant treasury futures exposure. Because security selection depends on the manager's assessment of economic and market conditions, fund returns will diverge from any benchmark.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| FKBAX | 0.93% | 0.73% |
| FCTLX | 1.33% | 1.13% |
| FBDAX | 0.67% | 0.48% |
| FTRRX | 1.18% | 0.98% |
| FRERX | 0.56% | 0.38% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 234.19% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 62.74% |
| Securitized | 54.07% |
| Loans | 3.07% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.48% |
| 2 smaller | 0.24% |
These positions come to 121.60% 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%.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Securitized | 44.4% |
| Other | 12.0% |
| Government | 11.2% |
| Financials | 7.1% |
| 12 smaller | 25.3% |
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
Largest new: FNMA or FHLMC ×6, GNMA ×2
Largest exited: FNMA or FHLMC ×4, United States of America, FHLMC Pool, GNMA ×2
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +4.47% | +10.82% | -0.46% | 3.35% | -6.29% | |
| +4.10% | +9.48% | -2.30% | 3.39% | -6.53% | |
| +4.70% | +11.57% | +0.67% | 3.48% | -6.14% | |
| +4.24% | +10.18% | -1.56% | 3.42% | -6.32% | |
| +4.68% | +11.92% | +1.22% | 3.50% | -6.08% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 3.52pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.70pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30
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 | 84.5% |
| Floating rate | 15.5% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.9% |
| 1-3y | 5.5% |
| 3-5y | 13.1% |
| 5-10y | 30.8% |
| 10y+ | 49.7% |
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.
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 | 52% |
| Interest rates | 48% |
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 | +4.81 yr |
| High yield | +0.43 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 | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.30 yr | 6% |
| 5 yr | 1.01 yr | 21% |
| 10 yr | 1.58 yr | 33% |
| 30 yr | 1.90 yr | 40% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.33 yr | 6% |
| 5 yr | 1.24 yr | 24% |
| 10 yr | 1.71 yr | 33% |
| 30 yr | 1.94 yr | 37% |
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 | +0.01 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $3.2k | $185 |
| 1 yr | +0.30 | +0.18 | +0.15 | $50.6k | $44.2k |
| 5 yr | +1.01 | +1.24 | +0.00 | $354.0k | $1.1k |
| 10 yr | +1.58 | +1.59 | +0.12 | $452.7k | $35.1k |
| 30 yr | +1.90 | +1.79 | +0.15 | $512.5k | $42.5k |
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 4.79 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 | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | FNMA or FHLMC6.00% · due 2056-05-25 | 2.50% | $71.56M | — |
| — | FNMA or FHLMC2.00% · due 2056-05-25 | 2.37% | $67.81M | — |
| — | FNMA or FHLMC6.50% · due 2056-05-25 | 1.96% | $56.03M | — |
| — | FNMA or FHLMC5.00% · due 2056-05-25 | 1.90% | $54.38M | — |
| — | FNMA or FHLMC2.50% · due 2056-05-25 | 1.90% | $54.22M | — |
| — | FNMA or FHLMC4.50% · due 2056-05-25 | 1.87% | $53.39M | — |
| — | FHLMC Pool3.00% · due 2052-02-01 | 1.64% | $46.92M | — |
| — | United States of America1.88% · due 2051-11-15 | 1.58% | $45.02M | — |
| — | United States of America2.25% · due 2049-08-15 | 1.57% | $44.89M | — |
| INFXX | Franklin Institutional U.S. Government Money Market FundINFXX | 1.48% | $42.29M | — |
Top 10 positions are 18.78% of net assets, top 25 32.45%, across 491 issuers.
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