Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000261019 — Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund. Intermediate Corporate Bond · $865.82M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000261019 Fund Overview
Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Touchstone Funds Group Trust, 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: Touchstone Funds Group Trust
- Category: Intermediate Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $865.82M
- 1-year return: 4.4%
- SEC CIK: 0000914243
- SEC series ID: S000042224
- Share class ID: C000261019
C000261019 Investment Objective and Strategy
Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Touchstone Funds Group Trust.
Investment objective
The Touchstone Arbitrage Fund (the Fund) seeks to achieve positive absolute returns over the long-term regardless of market conditions.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund primarily invests, under normal market conditions, in equity securities of U.S. and foreign issuers. This is a non-fundamental investment policy that the Fund can change upon 60 days prior notice to shareholders. Equity securities include common stock and preferred stock. The Funds sub-advisor, Longfellow Investment Management Co., LLC (Longfellow or Sub-Advisor), seeks to purchase securities of companies that are involved in corporate reorganizations, such as publicly announced mergers, takeovers, tender offers, debt restructurings, minority purchases, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, and liquidations. Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy designed to profit from the successful completion of these types of transactions. Longfellow also participates in other forms of arbitrage. The Fund is permitted to hold long and short equity positions, foreign securities including foreign depositary receipts, restricted securities including 144A securities (securities issued pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933), and convertible securities.
The Fund invests in companies of any size in seeking to achieve its investment goal. In acting on merger arbitrage opportunities, Longfellow primarily buys securities of companies being acquired (the target company) in publicly announced transactions where the terms of the transaction have been largely defined and disclosed. Longfellow may engage in selling securities short when the terms of a proposed corporate reorganization require the exchange of common stock and/or other securities. In such a case, the common stock of the target company may be purchased and, at approximately the same time, some amount of the acquiring companys common stock and/or other securities may be sold short depending on the terms of the transaction. The Funds investment strategy is designed to capture the arbitrage spread represented by the difference between the market price of the securities of the target company and the value that is offered for these securities by the acquiring company.
Under normal market conditions, merger arbitrage investments are expected to represent 60% or more of the Funds assets under management. The Fund may engage in frequent and active trading of portfolio securities as a part of its principal investment strategy. Dependent upon the level of corporate restructuring activity, the market, or other conditions and as determined by Longfellow, in addition to equities, the Fund may invest in any combination of cash, cash equivalents and/or fixed-income securities, including investment-grade corporate bonds, non-investment-grade debt securities (also known as junk bonds), and convertible bonds. The Fund may also gain exposure to fixed-income securities through investments in other registered investment companies, specifically closed-end funds. The Fund is non-diversified and may invest a significant percentage of its assets in the securities of a single company.
C000261019 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Short-Term Investments Trust | 4.89% |
| Dreyfus Government Cash Management Funds | 2.07% |
| Onemain Finance Corp. | 1.10% |
| Enviva, Inc. | 1.03% |
| Venture Global Lng, Inc. | 0.93% |
| Ard Holdings SA | 0.85% |
| American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. | 0.82% |
| Madison Iaq LLC | 0.82% |
| Altice France Sas | 0.81% |
| Light And Wonder International, Inc. | 0.80% |
C000261019 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 81.0% |
| Loans | 8.1% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 7.0% |
| Equity | 4.5% |
| Securitized | 4.1% |
C000261019 Performance
Total returns for C000261019 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.7% |
| 1 year | 4.4% |
C000261019 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000261019, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 2.1%
C000261019 Costs and Fees
C000261019 costs about $59 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.59%
- Gross expense ratio: 698.97%
- Portfolio turnover: 47%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.53 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000261019 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund had net inflows of $81.37M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$3.00M |
| 2026-05 | $9.75M |
| 2026-04 | −$44.34M |
| 2026-03 | −$19.81M |
| 2026-02 | $12.39M |
| 2026-01 | $14.15M |
C000261019 Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Onemain Finance Corp. | 1.10% |
| Venture Global Lng, Inc. | 0.93% |
| American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. | 0.82% |
| Madison Iaq LLC | 0.82% |
| Altice France Sas | 0.81% |
| Light And Wonder International, Inc. | 0.80% |
| Western Midstream Operating LP | 0.78% |
| Itt Holdings LLC | 0.77% |
| Integer Holdings Corp. | 0.74% |
| Oneok, Inc. | 0.72% |
C000261019 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-01-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-05-19
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-02-14
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-10
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-12-11
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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.