The Hartford World Bond Fund
HARTFORD MUTUAL FUNDS, INC · 9 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
The Hartford World Bond Fund is an actively managed developed international bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- Developed international
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Mixed credit
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
- Features
- Non-diversified
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The Fund seeks capital appreciation
The fund invests across global fixed income securities—government and corporate debt, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, and preferred stock—seeking to exploit inefficiencies in international bond and currency markets through a combination of top-down macroeconomic analysis and bottom-up security selection. It maintains at least 40% exposure to foreign securities across three or more countries, with flexibility to reduce to 30% during unfavorable conditions, and may allocate up to 50% of assets to below-investment-grade debt. As a non-diversified fund, it may concentrate a larger proportion of assets in one or more issuers than a diversified fund would.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| HWDAX | 1.00% |
| HWDCX | 1.74% |
| HWDIX | 0.72% |
| HWDRX | 1.34% |
| HWDSX | 1.04% |
| HWDTX | 0.73% |
| HWDYX | 0.72% |
| HWDVX | 0.62% |
| HWDFX | 0.62% |
Portfolio turnover 103.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 69.42% |
| Cash & short-term | 18.39% |
| Securitized | 11.81% |
| Loans | 0.83% |
| Stocks | 0.02% |
| Derivatives | -0.67% |
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.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: CANADA T-BILL, United States Treasury ×2, JAPAN TREASURY DISC BILL ×2, CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, QUEBEC T-BILL, Canada Government Bonds
Largest exited: CANADA T-BILL, JAPAN TREASURY DISC BILL ×4, United States Treasury ×2, Netherlands Government Bonds
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +2.53% | +11.19% | +7.47% | 2.83% | -3.75% | |
| +1.76% | +8.70% | +3.50% | 2.95% | -4.14% | |
| +2.90% | +12.24% | +9.03% | 2.89% | -3.56% | |
| +2.22% | +10.11% | +5.62% | 2.98% | -3.94% | |
| +2.49% | +11.07% | +7.24% | 2.92% | -3.74% | |
| +2.88% | +12.17% | +8.94% | 2.89% | -3.58% | |
| +2.88% | +12.14% | +8.96% | 2.83% | -3.56% | |
| +2.97% | +12.44% | +9.39% | 2.83% | -3.51% | |
| +2.89% | +12.38% | +9.40% | 2.80% | -3.62% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.90pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.18pp 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 | 88.1% |
| Floating rate | 11.7% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 0.2% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 1.9% |
| 1-3y | 26.4% |
| 3-5y | 18.5% |
| 5-10y | 25.6% |
| 10y+ | 27.6% |
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 about half 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 | 72% |
| Credit spreads | 28% |
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 | +1.07 yr |
| High yield | +0.44 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 | 0.09 yr | 2% |
| 1 yr | 0.35 yr | 9% |
| 5 yr | 0.70 yr | 18% |
| 10 yr | 1.81 yr | 46% |
| 30 yr | 0.94 yr | 24% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.29 yr | 20% |
| 5 yr | 0.46 yr | 31% |
| 10 yr | 0.55 yr | 36% |
| 30 yr | 0.19 yr | 12% |
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 | +0.09 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $3.8k | $2.2k |
| 1 yr | +0.35 | +0.19 | +0.11 | $82.9k | $48.3k |
| 5 yr | +0.70 | +0.27 | +0.19 | $121.4k | $84.9k |
| 10 yr | +1.81 | +0.45 | +0.09 | $202.4k | $42.3k |
| 30 yr | +0.94 | +0.15 | +0.04 | $65.2k | $18.6k |
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 3.89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | New Zealand Government Bonds0.25% · due 2028-05-15 | 4.43% | $197.74M | — |
| — | CZECH REPUBLIC3.50% · due 2035-05-30 | 3.45% | $154.14M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.50% · due 2029-05-31 | 3.15% | $140.41M | — |
| — | CANADA T-BILL | 3.03% | $135.18M | — |
| — | United States Treasury | 2.97% | $132.50M | — |
| — | JAPAN TREASURY DISC BILL | 2.61% | $116.55M | — |
| — | Canada Government Bonds3.50% · due 2029-09-01 | 2.58% | $115.27M | — |
| — | New Zealand Government Bonds3.00% · due 2029-04-20 | 2.31% | $103.28M | — |
| — | United States Treasury | 2.27% | $101.54M | — |
| — | Canada Government Bonds2.75% · due 2030-03-01 | 2.24% | $99.81M | — |
Top 10 positions are 29.05% of net assets, top 25 52.82%, across 450 issuers.
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