Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund

C000194988 Fund Overview

Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Harbor Funds, 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: Harbor Funds
• Category: Corporate Bond
• Assets under management: $81.74M
• 1-year return: 4.3%
• SEC CIK: 0000793769
• SEC series ID: S000059533
• Share class ID: C000194988

C000194988 Investment Objective and Strategy

Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Harbor Funds.

Investment objective

The Fund seeks total return.

Principal investment strategy

"Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in a diversified portfolio of below investment-grade, high-risk, corporate bonds that are rated below Baa3 by Moody's or below BBB- by S&P or Fitch, commonly referred to as ""high yield"" or ""junk"" bonds. The Fund expects to invest in approximately 150 to 200 issuers. The Subadviser will generally, but not exclusively, draw from investment opportunities in developed economies in both North America and Europe; however, the Fund is limited to U.S. dollar denominated securities. The Subadviser's approach includes both bottom-up and top-down elements. While the strategy is grounded in credit-intensive bottom-up research, the Subadviser's views on credit conditions and relative values will also impact Fund positioning.

The Subadviser seeks to exploit credit inefficiencies, such as mispriced or misrated securities, by utilizing a rigorous investment discipline based on a comprehensive bottom-up analysis of creditworthiness. The Subadviser's research process focuses on companies that the Subadviser believes offer attractive yields and possess the ability to service their debt obligations. Through the credit research process, the Subadviser seeks to identify those high-yield issuers that it believes exhibit more favorable credit characteristics, relative to other high-yield issuers, such as the following: Predictable demand and stable cash flows Competitive positions in well-defined market niches Sustainable margins, profitability and growth Strong financial and managerial controls Proven management teams The Subadviser tends to eliminate from consideration issuers operating in industries whose participants, in the Subadviser's view, possess a limited ability to maintain a competitive advantage because of low entry barriers or an excessive reliance on technological innovation for growing cash flow.

The Subadviser's credit research also emphasizes downside risk protection, and incorporates a comprehensive assessment of bond covenant protections and the remedies available should an investment become impaired. The Subadviser's approach to portfolio management also has a top-down, flexible and opportunistic element that seeks to take into account current and anticipated market conditions to guide the Fund's exposures. As a result, the Fund is not limited to set exposures to particular credit ratings categories. The Fund will typically hold credits that range from BBB to CCC ratings, and up to 10% in unrated securities. When credit spreads are at historically wide levels and credit default rates appear to be headed lower, the Subadviser may seek out opportunities to take on greater credit risk by emphasizing single-B securities and by taking tactical advantage of the potential for spread tightening in CCC-rated securities.

In an environment of tight credit spreads and increasing default rates, the Subadviser may shift the rating allocation in favor of higher quality BB-rated securities in an effort to help insulate the Fund from potential price volatility. Duration/Maturity: Although duration may be one of the characteristics considered in security selection, the Fund does not focus on bonds with any particular duration or maturity and does not seek to maintain the maturity of the Fund's portfolio in any particular range. Credit Quality: The Fund invests primarily in below investment-grade debt securities, commonly referred to as ""high-yield"" or ""junk"" bonds, but may invest up to 20% of its net assets in investment-grade securities, including U.S. Treasury and U.S. government agency securities. Therefore, the Fund's average weighted portfolio quality varies from time to time, depending on the level of assets allocated to such securities.

The Subadviser does not seek to actively invest in defaulted securities."

C000194988 Performance

Total returns for C000194988 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000194988 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000194988, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.6%

C000194988 Costs and Fees

C000194988 costs about $98 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.98%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.07%
• Portfolio turnover: 94%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000194988 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2020-07, Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund had net inflows of $7.38M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000194988 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000194988 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Harbor High-Yield Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-03-19
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-03-19
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2018-06-15
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-09-25
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-06-22
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2020-03-26
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-01-14
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2019-01-14

Related Funds

Other Corporate Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPE)
• Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund (NPSAX)
• Spectrum Preferred and Capital Securities Income Fund (PNARX)
• Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF (VRP)
• First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPEI)

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.