Lord Abbett High Yield Fund
LORD ABBETT INVESTMENT TRUST · 10 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Lord Abbett High Yield 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
- High yield
- Rate sensitivity
- Short duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q2
The Funds investment objective is to seek a high current income and the opportunity for capital appreciation to produce a high total return.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in lower-rated debt securities, including high-yield corporate bonds, convertible securities, distressed debt, and structured instruments like collateralized loan obligations, selecting securities through bottom-up analysis of issuer credit quality, management, and market position. The fund may also hold up to 20% in equity securities, up to 20% in foreign securities, up to 20% in municipal securities, and up to 15% in floating-rate loans. Because security selection depends on the portfolio manager's assessment of declining credit risk and deteriorating fundamentals, fund performance will diverge from any benchmark. The fund engages in active and frequent trading and may use derivatives including futures, forwards, options, and swaps for hedging, exposure adjustment, or return enhancement.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| LHYAX | 0.93% |
| LHYCX | 1.56% |
| C000019988 | 1.18% |
| LAHYX | 0.73% |
| LHYFX | 0.83% |
| LHYQX | 1.33% |
| LHYRX | 1.23% |
| LHYSX | 0.98% |
| LHYTX | 0.73% |
| LHYVX | 0.63% |
| LHYOX | 0.63% |
Portfolio turnover 79.00% · as of 2026 Q2
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 92.91% |
| Cash & short-term | 4.80% |
| Loans | 4.79% |
| Stocks | 0.90% |
| Securitized | 0.30% |
| Derivatives | -0.04% |
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.
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
| Other | 44.6% |
| International | 25.2% |
| Industrials | 4.9% |
| Cash | 3.6% |
| 11 smaller | 21.6% |
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: ALLOY FINCO LIMITED, RBC Dominion Securities, Inc., BORR IHC LTD / BORR FIN, CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP, Fixed Income Clearing Corp., COEUR MINING INC, CORE SCIENTIFIC FINANCE, MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC
Largest exited: RBC Dominion Securities, Inc., X.AI LLC/X.AI CO ISSUER, Fixed Income Clearing Corp, Alloy Finco Limited, NEW GOLD INC, MAUSER PACKAGING SOLUT, LEVEL 3 FINANCING INC, ORGANON & CO/ORGANON FOR
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +9.50% | +25.75% | +15.82% | 3.45% | -3.17% | |
| +8.83% | +23.44% | +12.33% | 3.51% | -3.19% | |
| +9.70% | +26.46% | +17.06% | 3.43% | -2.95% | |
| +9.43% | +26.09% | +16.32% | 3.59% | -3.16% | |
| +9.06% | +24.22% | +13.63% | 3.61% | -3.25% | |
| +9.13% | +24.56% | +14.19% | 3.66% | -3.22% | |
| +9.44% | +25.51% | +15.51% | 3.48% | -3.03% | |
| +9.72% | +26.70% | +17.09% | 3.63% | -3.10% | |
| +9.63% | +26.84% | +17.65% | 3.46% | -3.07% | |
| +9.63% | +26.85% | +17.65% | 3.57% | -2.92% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.32pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.06pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
May 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 2026-05-31
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 | 93.7% |
| Floating rate | 5.1% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 1.2% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.9% |
| 1-3y | 12.0% |
| 3-5y | 38.1% |
| 5-10y | 44.0% |
| 10y+ | 5.0% |
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 | 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.
| High yield | +3.17 yr |
| Investment grade | +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 | 0.03 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.87 yr | 31% |
| 5 yr | 1.66 yr | 60% |
| 10 yr | 0.21 yr | 8% |
30 yr is NEGATIVE (-0.01 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.03 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.84 yr | 26% |
| 5 yr | 1.86 yr | 57% |
| 10 yr | 0.49 yr | 15% |
| 30 yr | 0.07 yr | 2% |
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 | +0.03 | +0.00 | +0.03 | $88 | $9.6k |
| 1 yr | +0.87 | +0.01 | +0.83 | $4.1k | $270.1k |
| 5 yr | +1.66 | +0.06 | +1.80 | $20.8k | $584.6k |
| 10 yr | +0.21 | +0.01 | +0.48 | $3.6k | $154.9k |
| 30 yr | -0.01 | +0.02 | +0.04 | $7.0k | $14.2k |
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 2.76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Fidelity Investments | 3.39% | $110.48M | — |
| — | ALLOY FINCO LIMITED13.50% floating · due 2028-03-06 | 0.85% | $27.77M | — |
| — | DISH DBS CORP5.13% · due 2029-06-01 | 0.68% | $22.28M | — |
| — | DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC5.05% · due 2042-03-15 | 0.68% | $22.24M | — |
| — | VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC9.50% · due 2029-02-01 | 0.64% | $20.91M | — |
| — | RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. | 0.61% | $20.00M | — |
| — | HILCORP ENERGY I/HILCORP7.25% · due 2035-02-15 | 0.58% | $18.84M | — |
| — | NISSAN MOTOR CO4.81% · due 2030-09-17 | 0.54% | $17.52M | — |
| — | BORR IHC LTD / BORR FIN10.38% · due 2030-11-15 | 0.53% | $17.21M | — |
| — | BORR IHC LTD / BORR FIN9.00% · due 2034-01-15 | 0.48% | $15.72M | — |
Top 10 positions are 9.00% of net assets, top 25 14.95%, across 541 issuers.
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