Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund
Data updated: 2026-07-24
C000087841 — Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund. Corporate Bond · $6.06B AUM · 1.28% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000087841 Fund Overview
Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Nuveen Investment Trust V, 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: Nuveen Investment Trust V
- Category: Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $6.06B
- 1-year return: 26.0%
- SEC CIK: 0001380786
- SEC series ID: S000015514
- Share class ID: C000087841
C000087841 Investment Objective and Strategy
Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Nuveen Investment Trust V.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income and total return.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in preferred securities and other income producing securities. The Fund may invest in all types of preferred securities, including both traditional preferred securities and non-traditional preferred securities, and may invest in securities with dividends or interest rates that are fixed or floating. Traditional preferred securities are generally equity securities of the issuer that have priority over the issuers common shares as to the payment of dividends (i.e., the issuer cannot pay dividends on its common shares until the dividends on the preferred shares are current) and as to the payout of proceeds of a bankruptcy or other liquidation, but are subordinate to an issuers senior debt and junior debt as to both types of payments.
Non-traditional preferred securities include certain hybrid securities and other types of preferred securities that do not have the traditional features described above. Preferred securities that are hybrid securities possess varying combinations of features of both debt and traditional preferred securities and as such they may constitute senior debt, junior debt or preferred shares in an issuers capital structure. Preferred securities may also include certain forms of debt that have many characteristics of preferred shares, and that are regarded by the investment marketplace to be part of the broader preferred securities market. The Fund may also invest in income producing securities that are not preferred securities. These include contingent capital securities (sometimes referred to as CoCos), which are hybrid securities, issued primarily by non-U.S.
financial institutions, that have loss absorption mechanisms benefitting the issuer built into their terms. These loss absorption mechanisms may include automatic conversion into the issuers common stock or an automatic write down of the securitys principal amount upon the occurrence of a specified trigger or event. In addition, although the Fund will invest primarily in preferred securities and CoCos, it may invest up to 20% of its net assets, in the aggregate, in corporate debt securities, U.S. government securities (including securities issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities) and taxable municipal securities. The Fund normally invests at least 50% of its net assets in securities rated investment grade (BBB/Baa or higher) at the time of purchase by at least one independent rating agency and unrated securities judged to be of comparable quality by the Funds portfolio managers.
The Fund may invest up to 50% of its net assets in securities rated below investment grade (BB/Ba or lower) at the time of purchase, which are commonly referred to as high yield securities or junk bonds. The Fund may also invest in U.S. dollar-denominated securities issued by non-U.S. companies. The Fund may invest in securities that have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, but that may be resold to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 (Rule 144A securities). The Fund intends to invest at least 25% of its assets in the securities of companies principally engaged in financial services.
C000087841 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| State Str Navigator Secs L Tr | 4.09% |
| US 10YR NOTE (CBT)Sep26 | 3.57% |
| UBS Group AG | 2.25% |
| Barclays PLC | 1.76% |
| NatWest Group PLC | 1.61% |
| Banco Santander SA | 1.51% |
| Banco Santander SA | 1.50% |
| Sbl Holdings, Inc. | 1.50% |
| NatWest Group PLC | 1.48% |
| Bank of Montreal | 1.37% |
C000087841 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 89.8% |
| Equity | 9.6% |
| Real Estate | 5.5% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.2% |
C000087841 Performance
Total returns for C000087841 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 26.0% |
C000087841 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000087841, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.9%
C000087841 Costs and Fees
C000087841 costs about $128 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.28%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.28%
- Portfolio turnover: 28%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.26 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000087841 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-05, Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund had net inflows of $860.34M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | $2.88M |
| 2026-04 | $159.86M |
| 2026-03 | −$48.48M |
| 2026-02 | $187.14M |
| 2026-01 | $102.27M |
| 2025-12 | $98.15M |
C000087841 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| UBS Group AG | 2.25% |
| Barclays PLC | 1.76% |
| NatWest Group PLC | 1.61% |
| Banco Santander SA | 1.51% |
| Banco Santander SA | 1.50% |
| Sbl Holdings, Inc. | 1.50% |
| NatWest Group PLC | 1.48% |
| Bank of Montreal | 1.37% |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 1.32% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 1.26% |
C000087841 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-12-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-12-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-12-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-07-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-04-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-01-28
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-11-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-11-14
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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.