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As of 12/09/2024Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
Watchlist
YTD Return
6.7%
1 yr return
9.3%
3 Yr Avg Return
2.3%
5 Yr Avg Return
4.6%
Net Assets
$1.91 B
Holdings in Top 10
91.2%
Expense Ratio 2.68%
Front Load N/A
Deferred Load N/A
Turnover 57.00%
Redemption Fee N/A
Standard (Taxable)
$10,000
IRA
N/A
Fund Type
Open End Mutual Fund
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As of 12/09/2024Price
Aum/Mkt Cap
YIELD
Exp Ratio
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The Fund invests in open-end investment companies (mutual funds) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that primarily invest in high-yield corporate bonds, also commonly known as junk bonds (HYCB Funds) or long-duration U.S. Treasury securities (Treasury Bond Funds). For the purposes of this prospectus, HYCB Funds and Treasury Bond Funds are collectively referred to as Underlying Bond Funds. The Fund considers high-yield corporate bonds to be those that are rated lower than Baa3 by Moodys Investors Service (Moodys) or lower than BBB- by Standard and Poors Rating Group (S&P).
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (defined as net assets plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in Underlying Bond Funds. The Adviser expects the Fund to be at least 80% invested in HYCB Funds under most market conditions. The Fund does not have maturity or duration limitations with respect to the holdings of the Underlying Bond Funds in which it invests.
The Advisers investment strategy is a tactical style that includes disciplines that attempt to limit downside risk (drawdown, meaning the magnitude of decline from highest price to the subsequent low) as well as to seek to enhance return through income and capital appreciation (total return). The current yield of the Fund is not a separate goal, and the monthly distribution yield will fluctuate.
The Adviser does not employ a passive buy and hold, strategy. As part of its integrated risk-management disciplines, the Adviser monitors each HYCB Fund holding daily and applies a trailing stop discipline (a form of sell signal) to each Underlying Fund within the Funds portfolio, based on the proprietary approach (Sell Disciplines) that the Funds portfolio managers have used with their separately managed accounts, in order to limit the impact on the overall Fund portfolio of any sustained decline in a given Asset Class or Underlying Fund. A trailing stop discipline is a type of stop loss calculation managed by the Adviser that rises each day as the price of the underlying security rises, and thus trails the price movement. Thus, when HYCB Fund declines in price enough to generate a Sell signal the Adviser will sell that HYCB Fund and invest the proceeds in one or more Treasury Bond Funds. Conversely, when prices of HYCB Funds begin trending upward sufficient to give Buy signals under that model, the Adviser will sell part or all of its holdings in Treasury Bond Funds and select and purchase one or more HYCB Funds and will continue to make such purchases with net cash inflows into the Fund.
The same type of buy and sell disciplines (with different parameters) are also applied to the Treasury Bond Funds when they are held. If both types of funds have given Sell signals, the proceeds will temporarily be held in cash (money-market mutual funds and/or ultra-short-term bond funds) until either HYCB Funds or Treasury Bond Funds give Buy signals.
The buy and sell disciplines described above are a proprietary approach (Buy and Sell Disciplines) that one of the Funds portfolio managers, Dr. Sleeper has used within related companies diversified separately managed accounts since 1987, in seeking to limit the impact on the overall Fund portfolio of any sustained decline in the high-yield corporate bond and Treasury bond markets.
The Buy and Sell Disciplines are not designed to attempt to buy at lows or to sell at highs, but to seek to participate in a substantial part of any sustained uptrend in the HYCB market, as well as to shift into the Treasury bond market during most of any sustained downtrend in the HYCB market, similarly seeking to participate in a substantial part of uptrends in that market. The Adviser employs a reactive approach as distinct from a predictive approach.
Period | STBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|
YTD | 6.7% | -11.1% | 18.9% | 55.57% |
1 Yr | 9.3% | -9.2% | 20.8% | 45.82% |
3 Yr | 2.3%* | -16.9% | 16.8% | 34.76% |
5 Yr | 4.6%* | -14.7% | 13.4% | 8.57% |
10 Yr | N/A* | -7.0% | 7.1% | N/A |
* Annualized
Period | STBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
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2023 | 1.9% | -12.0% | 8.9% | 65.69% |
2022 | -6.2% | -31.8% | 18.4% | 15.06% |
2021 | -1.6% | -16.2% | 25.7% | 53.61% |
2020 | 8.1% | -31.1% | 18.7% | 1.78% |
2019 | N/A | -6.1% | 15.3% | N/A |
Period | STBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|
YTD | 6.7% | -11.1% | 18.9% | 55.57% |
1 Yr | 9.3% | -9.2% | 20.8% | 45.82% |
3 Yr | 2.3%* | -16.9% | 16.8% | 34.76% |
5 Yr | 4.6%* | -14.7% | 13.4% | 8.57% |
10 Yr | N/A* | -7.0% | 7.1% | N/A |
* Annualized
Period | STBDX Return | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | 6.1% | -6.9% | 22.2% | 79.60% |
2022 | -5.0% | -31.8% | 21.1% | 25.52% |
2021 | 0.5% | -13.5% | 49.9% | 72.95% |
2020 | 15.0% | -28.6% | 24.1% | 1.43% |
2019 | N/A | -4.8% | 19.1% | N/A |
STBDX | Category Low | Category High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Net Assets | 1.91 B | 2.63 M | 143 B | 29.30% |
Number of Holdings | 32 | 4 | 9638 | 91.11% |
Net Assets in Top 10 | 1.74 B | -204 M | 89.4 B | 11.23% |
Weighting of Top 10 | 91.18% | 5.8% | 265.8% | 8.49% |
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stocks | 99.67% | -6.18% | 99.68% | 1.25% |
Cash | 0.33% | -94.66% | 99.97% | 88.14% |
Convertible Bonds | 0.21% | 0.00% | 33.50% | 74.68% |
Preferred Stocks | 0.00% | 0.00% | 21.58% | 91.42% |
Other | 0.00% | -75.22% | 147.15% | 85.18% |
Bonds | 0.00% | 0.00% | 199.60% | 99.06% |
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Energy | 44.10% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 28.12% |
Real Estate | 18.93% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 14.49% |
Basic Materials | 13.36% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 8.12% |
Technology | 10.68% | 0.00% | 28.30% | 20.58% |
Healthcare | 4.37% | 0.00% | 18.60% | 20.58% |
Communication Services | 3.45% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 32.17% |
Consumer Cyclical | 2.83% | 0.00% | 89.95% | 31.01% |
Industrials | 2.16% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 40.58% |
Consumer Defense | 0.10% | 0.00% | 99.97% | 35.65% |
Utilities | 0.02% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 48.70% |
Financial Services | 0.00% | 0.00% | 100.00% | 95.36% |
Weighting | Return Low | Return High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
US | 99.67% | -6.18% | 99.68% | 1.25% |
Non US | 0.00% | -0.30% | 17.73% | 85.02% |
STBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Expense Ratio | 2.68% | 0.03% | 34.13% | 10.11% |
Management Fee | 1.05% | 0.00% | 2.29% | 87.15% |
12b-1 Fee | 1.00% | 0.00% | 1.00% | 96.81% |
Administrative Fee | N/A | 0.00% | 0.70% | N/A |
STBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Front Load | N/A | 0.00% | 5.75% | N/A |
Deferred Load | N/A | 1.00% | 1.50% | 72.73% |
STBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Max Redemption Fee | N/A | 0.50% | 2.00% | N/A |
Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.
STBDX Fees (% of AUM) | Category Return Low | Category Return High | Rank in Category (%) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Turnover | 57.00% | 0.00% | 632.00% | 33.02% |
STBDX | Category Low | Category High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dividend Yield | 4.15% | 0.00% | 23.30% | 67.23% |
STBDX | Category Low | Category High | Category Mod | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dividend Distribution Frequency | Monthly | SemiAnnual | Monthly | Quarterly |
STBDX | Category Low | Category High | STBDX % Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Net Income Ratio | 2.27% | -1.55% | 11.51% | 72.58% |
STBDX | Category Low | Category High | Capital Mode | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Capital Gain Distribution Frequency | Annually | Annually | Annually |
Date | Amount | Type |
---|---|---|
Nov 27, 2024 | $0.092 | OrdinaryDividend |
Oct 30, 2024 | $0.096 | OrdinaryDividend |
Sep 27, 2024 | $0.112 | OrdinaryDividend |
Aug 29, 2024 | $0.086 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jul 30, 2024 | $0.090 | OrdinaryDividend |
Apr 29, 2024 | $0.087 | OrdinaryDividend |
Mar 27, 2024 | $0.125 | OrdinaryDividend |
Feb 28, 2024 | $0.084 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jan 30, 2024 | $0.004 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 28, 2023 | $0.200 | OrdinaryDividend |
Nov 29, 2023 | $0.015 | OrdinaryDividend |
Oct 30, 2023 | $0.121 | OrdinaryDividend |
Sep 28, 2023 | $0.121 | OrdinaryDividend |
Aug 30, 2023 | $0.084 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jul 28, 2023 | $0.081 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jun 29, 2023 | $0.123 | OrdinaryDividend |
May 30, 2023 | $0.078 | OrdinaryDividend |
Apr 27, 2023 | $0.025 | OrdinaryDividend |
Mar 30, 2023 | $0.067 | OrdinaryDividend |
Feb 27, 2023 | $0.110 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jan 30, 2023 | $0.006 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 29, 2022 | $0.224 | OrdinaryDividend |
Nov 29, 2022 | $0.047 | OrdinaryDividend |
Oct 28, 2022 | $0.014 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jan 28, 2022 | $0.016 | OrdinaryDividend |
Nov 29, 2021 | $0.027 | OrdinaryDividend |
Oct 28, 2021 | $0.024 | OrdinaryDividend |
Sep 29, 2021 | $0.094 | OrdinaryDividend |
Aug 30, 2021 | $0.043 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jul 29, 2021 | $0.042 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jun 29, 2021 | $0.106 | OrdinaryDividend |
May 27, 2021 | $0.045 | OrdinaryDividend |
Apr 29, 2021 | $0.039 | OrdinaryDividend |
Mar 30, 2021 | $0.090 | OrdinaryDividend |
Feb 25, 2021 | $0.052 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jan 28, 2021 | $0.035 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 30, 2020 | $1.238 | OrdinaryDividend |
Nov 27, 2020 | $0.035 | OrdinaryDividend |
Oct 29, 2020 | $0.025 | OrdinaryDividend |
Sep 29, 2020 | $0.057 | OrdinaryDividend |
Aug 28, 2020 | $0.040 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jun 29, 2020 | $0.125 | OrdinaryDividend |
May 28, 2020 | $0.049 | OrdinaryDividend |
Apr 29, 2020 | $0.048 | OrdinaryDividend |
Mar 30, 2020 | $0.013 | OrdinaryDividend |
Feb 27, 2020 | $0.045 | OrdinaryDividend |
Jan 30, 2020 | $0.031 | OrdinaryDividend |
Dec 27, 2019 | $0.136 | OrdinaryDividend |
Nov 27, 2019 | $0.094 | OrdinaryDividend |
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
Sep 02, 2019
2.75
2.8%
Dr. Kenneth L. Sleeper, MBA, PhD is Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Co-Portfolio Manager at Sierra Investment Management, the parent company of the Sierra Mutual Funds and Ocean Park Asset Management and has over 31 years of industry experience. He jointly oversees all aspects of the organization’s activities, including asset management, research, and client relationships. With an extensive background in statistical and computer applications, Ken previously focused on advanced risk management, developing and refining computerized techniques for reducing downside risk, before co-founding Sierra in 1987 with David C. Wright. Kenneth earned MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Southern California.
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
Jan 28, 2022
0.34
0.3%
Mr. Quan is Lead Portfolio Analyst at Sierra Investment Management, the parent company of the Sierra Mutual Funds and Ocean Park Asset Management. He joined Sierra in 1999 and is responsible for investment monitoring & analysis, securities screening execution & reporting, technical analysis and portfolio construction among other investment management and operational duties. Marshall earned his BS degree in Business Administration: Classical Management – Finance from Cal State University at Dominguez Hills.
Start Date
Tenure
Tenure Rank
Jan 28, 2022
0.34
0.3%
Doug oversees the operations of the Investment Management team and related trading, contributes to portfolio decisions, and supervises analytic research. Doug earned a BA in Economics at Washington State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. Doug has been active in investment management full-time since 1988.
Category Low | Category High | Category Average | Category Mode |
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0.08 | 28.19 | 5.71 | 3.19 |
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