AEDQX — Emerging Markets Debt Fund, A Class

AEDQX Fund Overview

AEDQX — Emerging Markets Debt Fund, A Class is a US mutual fund managed by American Century International Bond Funds, categorised as Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: American Century International Bond Funds
• Category: Intermediate Treasury / Sovereign Bond
• Assets under management: $449.61M
• 1-year return: 8.1%
• Ticker: AEDQX
• SEC CIK: 0000880268
• SEC series ID: S000046096
• Share class ID: C000144191

AEDQX Investment Objective and Strategy

Emerging Markets Debt Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by American Century International Bond Funds.

Investment objective

The fund seeks total return.

Principal investment strategy

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income instruments of issuers that are economically tied to emerging markets. The fund will invest in debt instruments issued by foreign governments and corporations. Investments will typically be made in U.S. dollar denominated instruments, but may be denominated in local emerging markets currency as well. The fund considers an emerging market to be any country that is located outside the following developed countries list, which is subject to change: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In determining an issuers location, the portfolio managers may consider various factors including, among others, where the issuer is headquartered, where the issuers principal operations are located, where the issuers revenues are derived, where the principal trading market is located and the country in which the issuer was legally organized.

The weight given to each of these factors will vary depending on the circumstances in a given case. The fund may invest without limitation in both investment grade and high-yield (junk bonds) debt securities. An investment grade security is one that has been rated in one of the four highest categories used by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or determined by the investment advisor to be of comparable credit quality. A high-yield security is one that has been rated below the four highest categories used by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or determined by the investment advisor to be of similar quality. The average duration of the fund varies based on the portfolio managers forecast of interest rates and, under normal market conditions is not expected to exceed ten years.

Duration is an indication of the relative sensitivity of a securitys market value to changes in interest rates. The longer a securitys duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates. Duration is different from maturity in that it attempts to measure the interest rate sensitivity of a security, as opposed to its expected final maturity. In addition to the debt securities described above, the fund may also invest in bank loans. The fund also invests in derivative instruments. The fund may use foreign currency exchange contracts to shift its investment exposure from one currency into another, for hedging purposes or to enhance returns. The fund may invest in futures contracts, options and swap agreements to manage duration, credit exposure and country exposure. The fund may also invest in collateralized debt obligations, including collateralized loan obligations, mortgage- or asset-backed securities and other similarly structured investments.

The portfolio managers may engage in hedging of portfolio positions, which usually involves entering into a derivative transaction that has the opposite characteristics of the position being hedged. The net effect of these two positions is to reduce or eliminate the exposure created by the first position. To determine whether to buy or sell a security, the portfolio managers consider, among other things, various fund requirements and standards, along with economic conditions, alternative investments, interest rates and whether to alter geographic or currency exposure.

AEDQX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Emerging Markets Debt Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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AEDQX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Emerging Markets Debt Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

AEDQX Performance

Total returns for AEDQX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

AEDQX Risk Information

Risk metrics for AEDQX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.84%

AEDQX Costs and Fees

AEDQX costs about $117 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.17%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.17%
• Portfolio turnover: 105%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.34 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

AEDQX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-07, Emerging Markets Debt Fund had net outflows of $156.07M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

AEDQX Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Emerging Markets Debt Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

AEDQX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Emerging Markets Debt Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-07-31
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-07-31
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-30
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-14
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-08

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• Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund (VSIGX)
• iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (GOVT)
• iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEI)
• Fidelity SAI Inflation-Protected Bond Index Fund (FSPWX)

Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.