ARSSX — Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund
Data updated: 2023-08-25
ARSSX — Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund. Bond · $7.52M AUM · 0.62% expense ratio · 6.9% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ARSSX Fund Overview
ARSSX — Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Investment Managers Series Trust, categorised as Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Investment Managers Series Trust
- Category: Bond
- Assets under management: $7.52M
- 1-year return: 6.9%
- Ticker: ARSSX
- SEC CIK: 0001318342
- SEC series ID: S000047916
- Share class ID: C000150505
ARSSX Investment Objective and Strategy
Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Investment Managers Series Trust.
Investment objective
"The investment objectives of the Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund (the ""Strategic Credit Fund"") are to seek income and capital appreciation."
Principal investment strategy
"Under normal circumstances, the Strategic Credit Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in debt securities. The types of debt securities in which the Fund may invest include, but are not limited to, corporate bonds, notes and debentures of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, and bank loans of U.S. and non-U.S. corporate issuers. The Strategic Credit Fund's investments in foreign securities include securities in both developed and emerging markets. The Strategic Credit Fund may invest in debt securities of any maturity and credit quality. Under normal market conditions, the Fund's Advisor, Aristotle Credit Partners, LLC, expects that the Fund will generally invest in investment grade corporate bonds as well as high yield bonds and in bank loans that are generally both rated in the ""B"" and ""BB"" quality tiers of the high yield categories by nationally recognized securities rating organizations at the time of purchase or, if unrated, determined by the Advisor to be of comparable credit quality.
However, the Strategic Credit Fund may also invest in corporate debt investments rated below ""B"". The Advisor believes these securities with these credit ratings provide the optimal risk-adjusted performance over a market cycle. Investment grade securities are those rated in the Baa3 or higher categories by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (""Moody's""), or in the BBB- or higher categories by Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw Hill Companies Inc. (""S&P""), or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (""Fitch"") or, if unrated by S&P, Moody's or Fitch, determined by the Advisor to be of comparable credit quality. High yield bonds, commonly referred to as ""junk bonds"" and bank loans, are generally rated below investment grade by Moody's, S&P, or Fitch. In pursuing the Strategic Credit Fund's investment objectives, the Advisor uses a disciplined investment approach that integrates a top-down macroeconomic environment assessment with a bottom-up fundamental credit analysis.
The Advisor seeks to identify and invest in securities of companies with stable or improving financial profiles."
ARSSX Performance
Total returns for ARSSX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 6.9% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 1.8% |
ARSSX Risk Information
Risk metrics for ARSSX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 6.7%
ARSSX Costs and Fees
ARSSX costs about $62 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.62%
- Gross expense ratio: 2.68%
- Portfolio turnover: 34%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.14 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ARSSX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-06, Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund had net inflows of $2.47M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-06 | $982.05K |
| 2023-05 | $94.92K |
| 2023-04 | $171.40K |
| 2023-03 | $94.65K |
| 2023-02 | $45.59K |
| 2023-01 | $38.06K |
ARSSX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
ARSSX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Aristotle Strategic Credit Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-04-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-02-21
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-03-15
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-03-10
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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.