Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund
Data updated: 2020-09-25
C000136677 — Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund. Bond · $3.38M AUM · 0.67% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000136677 Fund Overview
Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Neuberger Berman Income Funds, 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: Neuberger Berman Income Funds
- Category: Bond
- Assets under management: $3.38M
- 1-year return: -1.9%
- SEC CIK: 0000723620
- SEC series ID: S000044035
- Share class ID: C000136677
C000136677 Investment Objective and Strategy
Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Neuberger Berman Income Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to maximize total return.
Principal investment strategy
To pursue its goal, the Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of U.S. and foreign bonds and other debt securities and other investments that provide investment exposure to such debt securities. The Fund seeks to achieve positive returns over the long term by investing in both long and short positions in a broad array of bonds and other debt securities and currencies around the world, including emerging markets. Short positions involve selling a security the Fund does not own in anticipation that the securitys price will decline. The Fund will not be constrained by management against an index. The Funds investments may include securities issued by domestic and foreign governments, supranational entities (e.g., World Bank, IMF), and corporate and trust entities or structures.
The Fund may invest in a broad array of bonds and other debt securities, including, without limitation: corporate bonds; securities issued by foreign governments; securities issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the U.S. government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities; inflation-linked debt securities; municipal securities; mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities; loans and related assignments and participations; restricted securities; and commercial paper. Securities in which the Fund may invest may be structured as fixed rate debt; floating rate debt; and debt that may not pay interest at the time of issuance. The Fund may also invest directly in foreign currencies or use derivatives that provide investment exposure to foreign currencies for hedging or other investment purposes.
The Fund may also invest in other investment companies, including funds in the Neuberger Berman fund family and unaffiliated investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs, and collectively, Underlying Funds), if the investment companies invest principally in the types of investments in which the Fund may invest directly. The Fund may use derivatives without limitation, primarily futures, options on futures, and options on interest rate swaps, otherwise known as swaptions, forward foreign currency contracts, and swaps, including total return swaps, credit default swaps and interest rate swaps. Any of these derivatives may be used in an effort to: enhance returns; manage or adjust the risk profile of the Fund or the risk of individual positions; replace more traditional direct investments; obtain exposure to certain markets; establish net short positions for individual markets, currencies or securities; adjust the duration of the Funds portfolio; hedge risk; or alter the Funds exposure to currencies, interest rates, sectors, and individual issuers.
The Portfolio Managers may choose not to hedge the Funds positions. The Fund may invest in debt securities across the credit spectrum, including investment grade securities, below investment grade securities (commonly known as junk bonds) and unrated securities. The Fund may invest without limit in below investment grade securities. The Fund considers debt securities to be below investment grade if, at the time of investment, they are rated below the four highest categories by at least one independent credit rating agency or, if unrated, are determined by the Portfolio Managers to be of comparable quality. The Fund may also invest without limit in foreign securities, including those of issuers in both developed and emerging market countries. Additionally, the Fund may invest in tender option bonds, convertible securities, contingent convertible securities, and preferred securities.
The Fund may also engage in when-issued and forward-settling securities (such as to-be-announced (TBA) mortgage-backed securities), which involve a commitment by the Fund to purchase securities that will be issued at a later date. The Fund may enter into a TBA agreement and roll over such agreement prior to the settlement date (e.g., mortgage dollar rolls) by selling the obligation to purchase the securities set forth in the agreement and entering into a new TBA agreement for future delivery of pools of mortgage-backed securities. The Fund may also hold cash and short-term securities, including cash equivalents and other debt obligations. The Fund may invest in bonds and other debt securities of any maturity and does not have a target average duration. In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading.
The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in bonds and other debt securities and other investments that provide investment exposure to such debt securities. The Fund will not alter this policy without providing shareholders at least 60 days notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding. Investment Philosophy and Process The Portfolio Management Team uses the following philosophy and process when choosing investments in any of the investment types identified in the Funds investment strategy. The Portfolio Management Teams investment philosophy is rooted in the belief that positive results can be achieved through a consistently applied, risk-managed approach to portfolio management that leverages its proprietary fundamental research capabilities, decision-making frameworks, and quantitative risk management tools.
The Portfolio Management Team employs an integrated investment process in managing the Fund. Portfolio Strategy: The Global Investment Strategy Team, which consists of the Portfolio Management Team and other senior investment professionals, establishes the investment profile for the Fund, which it monitors on an ongoing basis, including exposures to sectors (such as government, structured debt, credit, etc.) and duration/yield curve positioning, utilizing internally generated data that are produced by specialty sector investment teams making use of asset allocation tools. Strategy Implementation: Once the Global Investment Strategy Team establishes the investment profile for the Fund, the research teams and the Portfolio Management Team determine industry/sub-sector weightings and make securities selections within the types of securities that the Fund can purchase, such as investment grade securities, below investment grade securities, emerging market securities and non-U.S.
dollar denominated securities. When assessing whether to buy or sell a security, the teams utilize internally generated research and proprietary quantitatively driven tools and frameworks to a) establish an internal outlook, b) evaluate the markets outlook as it is reflected in asset prices, and c) contrast the two. The teams then use the information generated by this process to decide which securities the Fund will own. The teams will generally purchase securities if their internal outlook suggests a security is undervalued by the market and sell securities if their internal outlook suggests a security is overvalued by the market. The goal is to identify and evaluate investment opportunities that others may have missed. With respect to the Funds currency investments, the Portfolio Management Team employs a fundamentally driven approach based on numerous fundamental factors that assesses the relative value between currencies.
In particular, the Portfolio Management Team seeks to exploit opportunities in the currency markets by considering factors that consistently influence currency price dynamics, such as changes in price in various asset classes and sectors, interest rates, economic growth in a country, capital flows, distance from the Portfolio Management Teams estimate of the currencys value, policy impact on growth, and long term structural factors (e.g., demographic trends or trade balances of a country). The Funds currency investments are managed within a risk controlled framework that attempts to diversify among various currencies.
C000136677 Performance
Total returns for C000136677 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -1.9% |
C000136677 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000136677, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 17.8%
C000136677 Costs and Fees
C000136677 costs about $67 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.67%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.15%
- Portfolio turnover: 61%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.03 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000136677 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2020-07, Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund had net outflows of $68.16M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2020-07 | −$642.10K |
| 2020-06 | −$171.61K |
| 2020-05 | −$6.37M |
| 2020-04 | −$237.85K |
| 2020-03 | −$22.11M |
| 2020-02 | −$332.14K |
C000136677 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000136677 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Neuberger Berman Unconstrained Bond Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-03-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-03-20
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2018-12-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-09-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-06-15
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-03-30
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-01-10
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-01-14
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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.