Nuveen High Yield Fund
Actively managed U.S. bond fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Nuveen High Yield Fund held 395 positions with $2.27B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 9.7% of the fund. The TIYRX share class costs 0.7% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, TIYRX returned 8.4%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 66 new positions and exited 42.
The Fund seeks total return primarily through high current income and, when consistent with its primary objective, capital appreciation.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in lower-rated, higher-yielding fixed-income securities—primarily corporate bonds, senior loans, and convertible securities rated below investment grade—selected through independent credit analysis rather than reliance on rating agencies alone. The manager constructs a diversified portfolio across industries, maturities, and credit qualities, and may trade derivatives to implement its strategies. Because security selection depends on the manager's credit judgments and economic forecasts, fund performance will diverge from its benchmark index.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
STATE STR NAVIGATOR SECS L TR | 3.06% | $69.69M | — |
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY | 0.95% | $21.68M | — |
CRC Insurance Group LLC 7.13% · due 2031-06-01 | 0.90% | $20.41M | — |
FERRELLGAS LP/FERRELLGAS 5.88% · due 2029-04-01 | 0.80% | $18.17M | — |
Level 3 Financing Inc 8.50% · due 2036-01-15 | 0.67% | $15.32M | — |
CDI ESCROW ISSUER INC 5.75% · due 2030-04-01 | 0.67% | $15.22M | — |
BATH & BODY WORKS INC 6.63% · due 2030-10-01 | 0.67% | $15.14M | — |
IHO VERWALTUNGS GMBH 6.38% · due 2029-05-15 | 0.66% | $15.05M | — |
1261229 BC Ltd 10.00% · due 2032-04-15 | 0.66% | $14.97M | — |
California Buyer Ltd / Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC 6.38% · due 2032-02-15 | 0.61% | $13.93M | — |
The 200 largest of 395 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 | 92.61% |
| Loans | 5.07% |
| Cash & short-term | 4.58% |
| Stocks | 0.02% |
Look-through blends 1 underlying fund; 0.0% of NAV was not looked through and stays direct-classified. The blend is as of 2026Q1, one or more quarters before the direct holdings (2026Q2).
By sector
- Other
- 52.0%
- International
- 13.4%
- Industrials
- 5.7%
- Financials
- 5.2%
- 10 other sectors
- 23.7%
- Other
- 52.0%
- International
- 13.4%
- Industrials
- 5.7%
- Financials
- 5.2%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 5.1%
- Energy
- 4.7%
- Cash
- 3.6%
- Utilities
- 2.2%
- Health Care
- 2.0%
- Communication Services
- 1.9%
- Materials
- 1.6%
- Information Technology
- 1.2%
- Consumer Staples
- 1.2%
- Real Estate
- 0.1%
How it has done
TIYRX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 2.76%. 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 6 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.70% | +8.35% | +30.21% | +23.42% | -2.41% | |
| 0.61% | +8.43% | +30.47% | +23.79% | -2.42% | |
| 0.36% | +8.82% | +31.45% | +25.48% | -2.37% | |
| 0.51% | +8.53% | +30.99% | +24.41% | -2.28% | |
| 0.50% | +8.55% | +30.94% | +24.54% | -2.40% | |
| 0.00% | +9.21% | +32.87% | +27.58% | -2.32% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 4.16pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.83pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Nuveen 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
- Intermediate duration
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.00% – 0.70%· TIYRX 0.70%
- Portfolio turnover
- 61.00% a year · as of 2025 Q3
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.
66 new· the largest 8
42 exited· the largest 8
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 | 94.9% |
| Floating rate | 5.1% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.7% |
| 1-3y | 15.8% |
| 3-5y | 34.0% |
| 5-10y | 45.4% |
| 10y+ | 2.6% |
| Unknown | 1.5% |
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
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.
| High yield | +3.15 yr |
| Investment grade | +0.10 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 | 0.00 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.31 yr | 10% |
| 5 yr | 1.88 yr | 63% |
| 10 yr | 0.65 yr | 21% |
| 30 yr | 0.17 yr | 6% |
| 3 mo | 0.00 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.33 yr | 10% |
| 5 yr | 2.05 yr | 63% |
| 10 yr | 0.68 yr | 21% |
| 30 yr | 0.18 yr | 6% |
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 | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $520 |
| 1 yr | +0.31 | +0.00 | +0.33 | $88 | $75.5k |
| 5 yr | +1.88 | +0.04 | +2.01 | $9.2k | $457.5k |
| 10 yr | +0.65 | +0.01 | +0.67 | $1.2k | $152.6k |
| 30 yr | +0.17 | +0.05 | +0.13 | $11.4k | $29.4k |
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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