Nuveen High Yield Municipal Bond Fund
Nuveen Municipal Trust · Series S000000289 · 4 share classes
data updated 2026-09-08
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3
The investment objective of the Fund is to provide high current income exempt from regular federal income taxes.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in municipal bonds exempt from regular federal income tax, with a weighted average maturity exceeding 10 years, and allocates at least 65% to lower-quality bonds rated BBB/Baa or below at purchase or judged comparable by its sub-adviser. The sub-adviser employs a research-intensive process to identify high-yielding municipal bonds offering attractive value across yield, price, credit quality, liquidity and prospects. The fund may invest up to 15% in inverse floaters creating effective leverage of up to 30% of total exposure and up to 10% in defaulted municipal bonds, strategies the filing describes as speculative and high risk. Because income and returns depend on the sub-adviser's credit judgments and security selections, deterioration in those bonds' credit quality or limited upside relative to alternatives could diminish fund performance.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| NHMAX | 2.00% |
| NHMRX | 1.80% |
| NHCCX | 2.80% |
| NHMFX | 1.77% |
Portfolio turnover 18.00% · as of 2025 Q3
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 125.91% |
| Cash & short-term | 3.15% |
| Stocks | 0.08% |
| Loans | 0.01% |
| Derivatives | 0.00% |
These positions come to 129.15% 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.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: Dawson Trails Metropolitan District 1, Castle Rock, Colorado, Limited Tax General Obligation Bonds, Special Revenue Capital Appreciation Turbo, Refund, Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, Revenue Bonds, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Series 2026Q, San Francisco Airports Commission, California, Revenue Bonds, San Francisco International Airport, Second Series 2018D, Chicago, Illinois, Water Revenue Bonds, Project Series 2026A, Los Angeles Department of Airports, California, Revenue Bonds, Los Angeles International Airport, Subordinate Lien Series 2021D, Illinois Finance Authority, Revenue Bonds, Lutheran Life Communities Obligated Group, 2026A, Centerra South Metro District 1, Loveland, Colorado, Special Revenue Bonds, Improvement Senior Series 2026A, National Finance Authority, New Hampshire, Special Revenue Bonds, Lakeside Bayou Project, Galveston County, Texas, Series 2026
Largest exited: Dawson Trails Metropolitan District 1, Colorado, In The Town of Castle Rock, Limited Tax General Obligation Capital Appreciation Turbo Bonds, Series 2, California Health Facilities Financing Authority, Revenue Bonds, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Series 2021A, New York State Urban Development Corporation, State Personal Income Tax Revenue Bonds, General Purpose, Series 2020A, Riverside County Transportation Commission, California, Toll Revenue Second Lien Bonds, RCTC 91 Express Lanes, Refunding Series 2021C, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, Transportation Revenue Bonds, Series 2021A-2, Public Finance Authority of Wisconsin, Charter School Revenue Bonds, North Carolina Charter Educational Foundation Project, Series 2016A, California Municipal Finance Authority, Revenue Bonds, American Musical and Dramatic Academy Inc., Series 2023A, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Power Revenue Bonds, Series 2010ZZ
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +6.70% | +10.77% | +2.28% | 6.63% | -10.24% | |
| +7.00% | +11.61% | +3.48% | 6.60% | -10.08% | |
| +5.92% | +8.29% | -1.65% | 6.58% | -10.56% | |
| +6.88% | +11.58% | +3.46% | 6.64% | -10.05% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.13pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.03pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are 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 2026-06-30
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 | 98.4% |
| Floating rate | 1.6% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.8% |
| 1-3y | 0.6% |
| 3-5y | 0.6% |
| 5-10y | 4.4% |
| 10y+ | 93.6% |
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 | 54% |
| Credit spreads | 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 | +5.20 yr |
| High yield | +3.76 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 | 0.16 yr | 2% |
| 1 yr | 0.50 yr | 5% |
| 5 yr | 1.40 yr | 14% |
| 10 yr | 4.59 yr | 44% |
| 30 yr | 3.69 yr | 36% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 5 yr | 0.09 yr | 1% |
| 10 yr | 2.31 yr | 26% |
| 30 yr | 6.53 yr | 73% |
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 | +0.16 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $14.5k | $93 |
| 1 yr | +0.50 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $11.2k | $5.5k |
| 5 yr | +1.40 | +0.04 | +0.05 | $50.4k | $69.0k |
| 10 yr | +4.59 | +1.32 | +0.99 | $1.69m | $1.28m |
| 30 yr | +3.69 | +3.82 | +2.71 | $4.90m | $3.48m |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY | 3.15% | $404.50M | — |
| — | Public Finance Authority of Wisconsin, Limited Obligation PILOT Revenue Bonds, American Dream @ Meadowlands Project, Series 20177.00% · due 2050-12-01 | 1.41% | $180.88M | — |
| — | New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation, Texas, Student Housing Revenue Bonds, NCCD - College Station Properties LLC - Texas A&M Un5.00% · due 2047-07-01 | 1.07% | $138.08M | — |
| — | Aurora Highlands Community Authority Board, Adams County, Colorado, Special Tax Revenue Bonds, Refunding & Improvement Series 2021A5.75% · due 2051-12-01 | 1.02% | $130.77M | — |
| — | Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation, Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Restructured 2018A-15.00% · due 2058-07-01 | 0.83% | $106.46M | — |
| — | New York Liberty Development Corporation, New York, Liberty Revenue Bonds, 3 World Trade Center Project, Class 3 Series 20147.25% · due 2044-11-15 | 0.70% | $90.03M | — |
| — | Buckeye Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority, Ohio, Tobacco Settlement Asset-Backed Revenue Bonds, Refunding Senior Lien Series 2020B-2 Class 25.00% · due 2055-06-01 | 0.69% | $89.13M | — |
| — | Chicago, Illinois, General Obligation Bonds, Project & Refunding Series 2017A6.00% · due 2038-01-01 | 0.69% | $88.24M | — |
| — | San Francisco Airports Commission, California, Revenue Bonds, San Francisco International Airport, Second Series 2018D5.25% · due 2048-05-01 | 0.68% | $87.74M | — |
| — | Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation, Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Restructured 2018A-10.00% · due 2046-07-01 | 0.66% | $84.75M | — |
Top 10 positions are 10.91% of net assets, top 25 18.43%, across 2.1K issuers.
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