Short Duration Income Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-28
C000139705 — Short Duration Income Portfolio. Intermediate Corporate Bond · $168.05M AUM · 0.84% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000139705 Fund Overview
Short Duration Income Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Lord Abbett Series Fund INC, categorised as Intermediate 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: Lord Abbett Series Fund INC
- Category: Intermediate Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $168.05M
- 1-year return: 3.7%
- SEC CIK: 0000855396
- SEC series ID: S000045029
- Share class ID: C000139705
C000139705 Investment Objective and Strategy
Short Duration Income Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Lord Abbett Series Fund INC.
Investment objective
The Funds investment objective is to seek a high level of income consistent with preservation of capital.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund invests in various types of short duration debt (or fixed income) securities. Under normal conditions, the Fund pursues its investment objective by investing at least 65% of its net assets in investment grade debt securities of various types. Such investments include: corporate debt securities of U.S. issuers; corporate debt securities of non-U.S. (including emerging market) issuers that are denominated in U.S. dollars; mortgage-backed, mortgage-related, and other asset-backed securities, including privately issued mortgage-related securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS); securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities; and inflation-linked investments. The Fund may invest in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which are U.S.
Government bonds whose principal automatically is adjusted for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), and other inflation-indexed securities issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury. The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in any one or a combination of the following types of fixed income securities and other instruments: high-yield debt securities (commonly referred to as lower-rated or junk bonds); debt securities of non-U.S. (including emerging market) issuers that are denominated in foreign currencies; loans, including bridge loans, novations, assignments, and participations; convertible securities, including convertible bonds and preferred stocks; and structured securities and other hybrid instruments, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).
The Fund will not invest more than 25% of its total assets in any industry (excluding securities of the U.S. Government, its agencies and instrumentalities); however, the Fund does not consider mortgage-related securities, including CMBS and other privately issued mortgage-related securities, as representing interests in any particular industry or group of industries. The Fund may invest substantially in CMBS, including lower-rated CMBS. The Fund seeks to manage interest rate risk through its management of the average duration of the securities it holds in its portfolio. Under normal conditions, the Fund will maintain its average dollar-weighted duration range between one and three years. The duration of a security takes into account the pattern of all expected payments of interest and principal on the security over time, including how these payments are affected by changes in interest rates.
The Fund may use derivatives to hedge against risk or to gain investment exposure. Currently, the Fund expects to invest in derivatives consisting principally of futures, forwards, options, and swaps. The Fund may use derivatives to seek to enhance returns, to attempt to hedge some of its investment risk, to manage portfolio duration, as a substitute for holding the underlying asset on which the derivative instrument is based, or for cash management purposes. For example, the Fund may invest in or sell short U.S. Treasury futures, securities index futures, other futures, and/or currency forwards to adjust the Funds exposure to the direction of interest rates, or for other portfolio management reasons. The portfolio management team buys and sells securities using a relative value-oriented investment process, meaning the portfolio management team generally seeks more investment exposure to securities believed to be undervalued and less investment exposure to securities believed to be overvalued.
The portfolio management team combines top-down and bottom-up analysis to construct its portfolio, using a blend of quantitative and fundamental research. As part of its top-down analysis, the portfolio management team evaluates global economic conditions, including monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy, as well as the political and geopolitical environment, in order to identify and assess opportunities and risks across different segments of the fixed income market. The portfolio management team employs bottom-up analysis to identify and select securities for investment by the Fund based on in-depth company, industry, and market research and analysis. The portfolio management team may actively rotate sector exposure based on its assessment of relative value. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of its portfolio securities.
The Fund may sell a security when the Fund believes the security is less likely to benefit from the current market and economic environment, or shows signs of deteriorating fundamentals, among other reasons. The Fund may deviate from the investment strategy described above for temporary defensive purposes. The Fund may miss certain investment opportunities if defensive strategies are used and thus may not achieve its investment objective.
C000139705 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Short Duration Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 1.86% |
| United States Treasury | 1.47% |
| Umbs, Tba | 1.45% |
| Signal Peak CLO, LLC | 0.57% |
| Citizens Auto Receivables Trust | 0.47% |
| Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl | 0.46% |
| Foundry Jv Holdco LLC | 0.45% |
| Carnival Corp. Ltd. | 0.43% |
| SFS Auto Receivables Securitization Trust | 0.42% |
| Vistra Operations Co. LLC | 0.41% |
C000139705 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Short Duration Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 63.0% |
| Securitized | 35.2% |
| Loans | 4.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.8% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
C000139705 Performance
Total returns for C000139705 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 0.9% |
| 1 year | 3.7% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 5.2% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 2.2% |
C000139705 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000139705, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 1.3%
C000139705 Costs and Fees
C000139705 costs about $84 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.84%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.84%
- Portfolio turnover: 153%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000139705 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Short Duration Income Portfolio had net inflows of $30.51M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | $2.84M |
| 2026-05 | $2.99M |
| 2026-04 | $3.68M |
| 2026-03 | −$195.31K |
| 2026-02 | $239.37K |
| 2026-01 | $98.15K |
C000139705 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Short Duration Income Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 1.86% |
| United States Treasury | 1.47% |
| Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl | 0.46% |
| Foundry Jv Holdco LLC | 0.45% |
| Carnival Corp. Ltd. | 0.43% |
| Vistra Operations Co. LLC | 0.41% |
| Continental Resources | 0.39% |
| Bayer US Finance Ii LLC | 0.38% |
| Romania Government International Bonds | 0.37% |
| Bank Of Ireland Group | 0.35% |
C000139705 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Short Duration Income Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-09
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-10
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-05
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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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.