Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund

Data updated: 2022-11-28

C000046504 — Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund. Corporate Bond · $123.24M AUM · 1.74% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000046504 Fund Overview

Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Legg Mason Partners Income Trust, categorised as Corporate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

  • Type: US mutual fund
  • Manager: Legg Mason Partners Income Trust
  • Category: Corporate Bond
  • Assets under management: $123.24M
  • 1-year return: -20.8%
  • SEC CIK: 0000764624
  • SEC series ID: S000016648
  • Share class ID: C000046504

C000046504 Investment Objective and Strategy

Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Legg Mason Partners Income Trust.

Investment objective

The fund seeks to maximize total return.

Principal investment strategy

The fund invests primarily in high yield fixed income securities issued by U.S. and foreign companies and foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in high yield bonds. High yield bonds are rated below investment grade (that is, securities rated below the Baa/BBB categories, or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable credit quality by the subadviser) and are commonly referred to as high yield or junk bonds. Under normal circumstances, the fund will be invested in at least three countries (one of which may be the United States). The fund may invest without limit in foreign securities denominated either in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies and may invest up to 35% of its assets in sovereign debt issued by emerging market governmental issuers.

The funds investments may be of any maturity or duration. Instead of, and/or in addition to, investing directly in particular securities, the fund may use instruments such as derivatives, including options, swaps, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps (including buying and selling credit default swaps and options on credit default swaps), foreign currency futures, forwards and options, futures contracts and other synthetic instruments that are intended to provide economic exposure to the securities or the issuer or to be used as a hedging technique. The fund may use one or more types of these instruments without limit. For additional information regarding derivatives, see More on the funds investment strategies, investments and risksDerivatives in the Prospectus. These instruments are taken into account when determining compliance with the funds 80% policy.

The fund may also engage in a variety of transactions using derivatives in order to change the investment characteristics of its portfolio (such as shortening or lengthening duration) and for other purposes.

C000046504 Performance

Total returns for C000046504 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

PeriodTotal return
1 year-20.8%
3 years (annualised)-3.9%

C000046504 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000046504, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

  • 1-year volatility (annualised): 12.3%

C000046504 Costs and Fees

C000046504 costs about $174 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

  • Net expense ratio: 1.74%
  • Gross expense ratio: 1.74%
  • Portfolio turnover: 81%
  • Brokerage commissions: 0.21 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000046504 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-09, Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund had net inflows of $102.88M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

MonthNet flow
2022-09$11.09M
2022-08$15.25M
2022-07$18.95M
2022-06$4.90M
2022-05$5.93M
2022-04$13.59M

C000046504 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000046504 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Western Asset Global High Yield Bond Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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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.