Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund
Data updated: 2024-08-21
C000228999 — Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund. Alternative · $1.16M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000228999 Fund Overview
Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund is a US mutual fund managed by TCW Metropolitan West Funds, categorised as Alternative. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: TCW Metropolitan West Funds
- Category: Alternative
- Assets under management: $1.16M
- 1-year return: 7.3%
- SEC CIK: 0001028621
- SEC series ID: S000072617
- Share class ID: C000228999
C000228999 Investment Objective and Strategy
Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by TCW Metropolitan West Funds.
Investment objective
The Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund seeks to maximize total returns through a combination of current income and capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund pursues its objective by utilizing a flexible investment approach that, under normal circumstances, invests at least 80% of its net assets in investments across a range of investment opportunities related to income-generating credit securities, with an emphasis on higher volatility, lower-quality debt securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as junk bonds) by Moodys Investors Services, Inc. (Moodys), S&P Global rating (S&P) and Fitch Ratings, Inc. (Fitch), or unrated securities determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. The use of the term opportunistic in the Funds name means that it is not limited to any single type of investment strategy, sector or income-producing security. Income-generating credit securities may include defaulted securities that are not current with their interest, distribution, or dividend payments, but defaulted securities are not expected to constitute more than 15% of the Funds portfolio.
The portfolio management team evaluates each investment idea based on, among other factors, the teams view of its current income potential, risk level, capital appreciation potential, and how it fits within the Funds overall portfolio in determining whether to buy or sell investments. The Adviser allocates the Funds assets in response to, among other factors, changing market, financial, economic, and political factors and events that the Funds portfolio managers believe may affect the values of the Funds investments. The allocation of capital to sectors and securities within each sector in the Fund is driven primarily by the Advisers assessment of relative value offered by each sector and security, respectively. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in equity securities, including common and preferred stock; rights, warrants or options to purchase common or preferred stock; securities that may be converted into or exchanged for common or preferred stock, such as convertible preferred stock, convertible debt and Eurodollar convertible securities; equity securities of foreign companies listed on established exchanges in the U.S., including NASDAQ; American Depository Receipts (ADRs); and other securities, including structured securities, with equity characteristics.
In addition, the Fund may acquire and hold common stocks or other equity securities (or rights to acquire such securities) in unit offerings with fixed income securities, in connection with an amendment, waiver, conversion or exchange of fixed income securities, in connection with the bankruptcy or workout of a distressed fixed income security, or upon the exercise of a right or warrant obtained on account of a fixed income security. Investments in the Fund include various types of bonds and debt securities, including corporate bonds, notes, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities (including collateralized debt obligations, which in turn include collateralized bond obligations and collateralized loan obligations), bank loans, municipal securities, U.S. and non-U.S. money market securities, defaulted debt securities, private placements and restricted securities.
The Funds fixed income investments may have interest rates that are fixed, variable or floating. The Fund may invest in securities of any maturity, and there is no limit on the weighted average maturity of the Funds portfolio. The Fund does not have a duration target. The Fund may also invest in companies whose financial condition is uncertain, where the borrower has defaulted in the payment of interest or principal or in the performance of its covenants or agreements, or that may be involved in bankruptcy proceedings, reorganizations or financial restructurings. The Fund may invest in both investment grade and high yield fixed income securities (commonly known as junk bonds). The Fund may invest up to 100% of its total assets (measured at the time of investment) in securities rated below investment grade by Moodys Investors Service, Inc.
(Moodys), S&P Global Ratings (S&P) or Fitch Ratings, Inc. (Fitch), or, if unrated, determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets (measured at the time of investment) in asset-backed and mortgage-related securities rated below investment grade by Moodys, S&P or Fitch, or, if unrated, determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund may invest in foreign securities, and up to 20% of the Funds total assets may be invested in emerging markets and instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries. The Fund considers emerging market countries to include all of the countries in the J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI) Global Diversified, the J.P. Morgan Corporate Emerging Market Bond Index (CEMBI) Broad Diversified, the J.P.
Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM), the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. Instruments considered to be economically tied to emerging market countries are (i) those that are principally traded in an emerging market country, or (ii) those that are issued by: (a) an issuer organized under the laws of or maintaining a principal place of business in an emerging market country, (b) an issuer that derives or is expected to derive 50% or more of its total revenues, earnings or profits from business activity in an emerging market country, or that maintains or is expected to maintain 50% or more of its employees, assets, investments or operations in an emerging market country, or (c) a governmental or quasi-governmental entity of an emerging market country.
The emerging market fixed-income securities in which the Fund may invest are not subject to any minimum credit quality standards. The Fund normally limits its foreign currency exposure (from non-U.S. dollar-denominated securities or currencies) to 20% of its total assets. The Fund reserves the right to hedge its exposure to foreign currencies to reduce the risk of loss from fluctuations in currency exchange rates, but is under no obligation to do so under any circumstances. The Fund may sell securities and other instruments short provided that not more than 33 1/3 % of its net assets is held as collateral for those transactions. Derivatives are used in an effort to hedge investments, for risk management or to increase income or gains for the Fund. The types of derivative instruments in which the Fund will principally invest are currency and other futures, forward contracts, options, and swap agreements (typically interest rate swaps, index-linked swaps, total return swaps and credit default swaps).
The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its primary investment strategies.
C000228999 Holdings
Top 3 holdings of Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Fidelity Government Portfolio | 94.09% |
| MSILF Government Portfolio | 3.26% |
| Spectrum Brands, Inc. | 0.29% |
C000228999 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 97.4% |
| Fixed Income | 0.3% |
C000228999 Performance
Total returns for C000228999 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 7.3% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -0.7% |
C000228999 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000228999, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.8%
C000228999 Costs and Fees
C000228999 costs about $61 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.61%
- Gross expense ratio: 8.89%
- Portfolio turnover: 131%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.95 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000228999 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2024-06, Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund had net inflows of $775.61K, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2024-06 | −$283.75K |
| 2024-05 | $7.01K |
| 2024-04 | $952 |
| 2024-03 | $85.57K |
| 2024-02 | $65.01K |
| 2024-01 | −$108.79K |
C000228999 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Spectrum Brands, Inc. | 0.29% |
C000228999 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Metropolitan West Opportunistic High Income Credit Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-07-26
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2022-08-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-08-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-05-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-02-22
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-06-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-06-02
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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.