Project and Trade Finance Core Fund

Federated Hermes Core Trust III

Actively managed global bond fund
$2.03B NAV
116 positions · as of 2026-06-30 · filed 2026-08-25

Fund classification

Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2

Project and Trade Finance Core Fund is an actively managed global bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
Global
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
High yield
Rate sensitivity
Short duration

Fund profile

This fund files no prospectus profile. Unit investment trusts and closed-end funds register on forms that carry no objective or fee tagging, and some fund families file without it — a gap in what was filed, not a fund without an objective or without fees.

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2

98.17%
of net assets
Loans81.71%
Cash & short-term16.13%
Derivatives0.33%

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q2 vs 2026Q1: 17 new35 exited

Largest new: Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri A.S., NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT, T.C. Ziraat Bankasi A.S., BP OIL INTERNATIONAL LTD, ACELEN AMERICA INC, VIBRA ENERGIES, Itau Unibanco S.A. Nassau Branch, MERCURIA ENERGY TRADING SA

Largest exited: Dangote Industries Limited, QNB FINANSBANK ANONIM SIRKETI, REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, FRONTERA ENERGY COLOMBIA CORP, YAPI VE KREDI BANKASI AS, T.C. Ziraat Bankasi A.S., Marfrig Global Foods SA, TRAFIGURA PTE LTD

Return profile

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026

1-year
+8.01%
3-year
+27.66%
5-year
+39.69%
Volatility
0.65%
Worst 3-yr fall
0.00%
Cumulative return· Jul 2023 – Apr 2026

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

Avg coupon
6.24%
Avg maturity
2.23 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

93%
floating
Floating rate93.0%
Fixed rate7.0%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y41.1%
1-3y20.5%
3-5y32.7%
5-10y5.3%
10y+0.4%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

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.

Interest-rate duration
0.10 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
1.62 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

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.

≈ -1.5%
of value
Credit spreads94%
Interest rates6%

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.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+1.62
yrs total
High yield+1.61 yr
Investment grade+0.02 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. This filer signs its rate and credit disclosures differently; the direction shown follows its interest-rate filing, and a negative reading is the least-supported figure here.

Interest rate0.10 yr total
3 mo10 yr
3 mo0.09 yr94%
1 yr0.00 yr3%
5 yr0.00 yr3%
10 yr0.00 yr0%
Credit spread1.62 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.07 yr4%
1 yr0.58 yr36%
5 yr0.95 yr59%
10 yr0.02 yr2%
30 yr0.00 yr0%

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
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.09+0.00+0.07$12$13.9k
1 yr+0.00+0.01+0.57$1.0k$115.7k
5 yr+0.00+0.01+0.94$2.5k$190.6k
10 yr+0.00+0.00+0.02$0$5.0k
30 yr+0.00+0.00+0.00$0$0

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Rate exposure by currency

Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 0.10 yr.

USD+0.10 yr
EUR-0.00 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

Issuer%NAVValue
FEDERATED HERMES MONEY MARKET OBLIGATIONS TRUST16.13%$326.63M
LEOPARD FUNDING LIMITED9.91% floating · due 2029-09-171.82%$36.84M
Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri A.S.4.92% · due 2026-07-011.73%$34.99M
NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT5.51% floating · due 2027-05-211.73%$34.99M
T.C. Ziraat Bankasi A.S.2.98% floating · due 2026-11-161.66%$33.59M
Banco do Brasil, London Branch4.70% floating · due 2027-03-191.58%$32.02M
Phoenix Tower International Chile SPA7.73% floating · due 2027-08-101.55%$31.32M
Matterhorn Express Pipeline, LLC6.13% floating · due 2031-03-311.52%$30.78M
BP OIL INTERNATIONAL LTD4.16% floating · due 2026-10-071.51%$30.50M
African Export-Import Bank4.94% floating · due 2026-12-301.48%$30.00M
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Top 10 positions are 30.69% of net assets, top 25 51.00%, across 97 issuers.

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