EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio

C000090306 Fund Overview

EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Eq Advisors Trust, categorised as Short 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: Eq Advisors Trust
• Category: Short Treasury / Sovereign Bond
• Assets under management: $848.13M
• 1-year return: 2.8%
• SEC CIK: 0001027263
• SEC series ID: S000029400
• Share class ID: C000090306

C000090306 Investment Objective and Strategy

EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eq Advisors Trust.

Investment objective

Seeks to achieve a balance of current income and capital appreciation, consistent with a prudent level of risk.

Principal investment strategy

The Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in debt securities issued by the U.S. Government and its agencies and instrumentalities and financial instruments that derive their value from such securities. Debt securities represent an issuers obligation to repay a loan of money that generally pays interest to the holder. Bonds, notes and debentures are examples of debt securities. Futures (including a short position in a futures contract) and options contracts on debt securities and shares of other investment companies that invest substantially all of their assets in debt securities are examples of financial instruments that derive their value from debt securities. The Portfolio may also purchase corporate bonds, notes, asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and other mortgage-related securities, inflation-protected securities, loan participations, zero-coupon bonds, pay-in-kind securities, and preferred stock.

The Portfolio also may invest up to 10% of its total assets in foreign fixed-income securities in developed or emerging market countries. The Portfolio seeks to maintain an effective duration of up to two years under normal market conditions. Duration is a measure that relates the expected price volatility of a security to changes in interest rates. The duration of a debt security is the weighted average time to maturity, expressed in years, of the present value of all future cash flows, including coupon payments and principal repayments. In managing the Portfolio, the Sub-Adviser may use interest rate forecasting to guide the level of interest rate risk to accept at a given time. The Portfolio may moderately shorten its average duration when the Sub-Adviser expects interest rates to rise and modestly lengthen its average duration when the Sub-Adviser anticipates that interest rates will fall.

The Sub-Adviser selects securities for purchase or sale based on its assessment of the securities risk and return characteristics as well as the securities impact on the overall risk and return characteristics of the Portfolio. In making this assessment, the Sub-Adviser takes into account various factors, including the credit quality and sensitivity to interest rates of the securities under consideration and of the Portfolios other holdings. The Portfolio also may lend its portfolio securities to earn additional income.

C000090306 Holdings

Top 10 holdings of EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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C000090306 Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000090306 Performance

Total returns for C000090306 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000090306 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000090306, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 0.6%

C000090306 Costs and Fees

C000090306 costs about $77 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.77%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.82%
• Portfolio turnover: 41%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.16 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000090306 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio had net outflows of $7.91M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000090306 Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000090306 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official EQ/AB Short Duration Government Bond Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-11
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-10

Related Funds

Other Short Treasury / Sovereign Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund (VBISX)
• Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund (VSBSX)
• iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY)
• iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF (STIP)
• Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (SCHO)

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.