DSHPX — BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-22
DSHPX — BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund. Intermediate Corporate Bond · $78.48M AUM · 0.70% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
DSHPX Fund Overview
DSHPX — BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by BNY Mellon Investment Funds VII, 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: BNY Mellon Investment Funds VII, Inc.
- Category: Intermediate Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $78.48M
- 1-year return: -5.0%
- Ticker: DSHPX
- SEC CIK: 0000889169
- SEC series ID: S000000297
- Share class ID: C000000728
DSHPX Investment Objective and Strategy
BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by BNY Mellon Investment Funds VII, Inc..
Investment objective
The fund seeks to maximize total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income.
Principal investment strategy
"To pur sue its goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in fixed-income securities of U.S. and foreign issuers rated investment grade or the unrated equiv alent as determined by The Dreyfus Corporation. These securities include: U.S. government bonds and notes, corpo rate bonds, municipal bonds, convertible securities, preferred stocks, inflation-indexed securities, asset-backed securities, mortgage-related securities (including CMOs), floating rate loans (limited to up to 20% of the fund's net assets) and other floating rate securities and foreign bonds. Typically, the fund's portfolio can be expected to have an average effective maturity and an average effective duration of three years or less. A bond's maturity is the length of time until the principal must be fully repaid with interest.
Average effective portfolio maturity is an average of the maturities of bonds held by the fund directly and the bonds underlying derivative instruments entered into by the fund, if any, adjusted to reflect provisions or market conditions that may cause a bond's principal to be repaid earlier than at its stated maturity. Duration is an indication of an investment's ""interest rate risk,"" or how sensitive a bond or the fund's portfolio may be to changes in interest rates. For additional yield, the fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in fixed-income securities rated below investment grade (""high yield"" or ""junk"" bonds) to as low as Caa/CCC or the unrated equivalent as determined by The Dreyfus Corporation. The fund will focus on U.S. securities, but may invest up to 30% of its total assets in fixed-income securities of foreign issuers (i.e., securities issued by companies organized under the laws of countries other than the U.S.
or securities issued by foreign governments), including those of issuers in emerging markets."
DSHPX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Dreyfus Institutional Preferred Government Plus Money Market Fund | 3.09% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 2.33% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.27% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.18% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.14% |
| Dreyfus Institutional Preferred Money Market Funds | 1.05% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 0.96% |
| Venture Global Plaquemines Lng LLC | 0.87% |
| Global Partners LP / Glp Finance Corp. | 0.85% |
| Wynn Macau Ltd. | 0.76% |
DSHPX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 67.8% |
| Securitized | 30.4% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 4.1% |
DSHPX Performance
Total returns for DSHPX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -5.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.4% |
DSHPX Risk Information
Risk metrics for DSHPX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 1.9%
DSHPX Costs and Fees
DSHPX costs about $70 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.70%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.08%
- Portfolio turnover: 127%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.29 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
DSHPX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund had net outflows of $5.72M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$6.23M |
| 2026-03 | −$449.37K |
| 2026-02 | $444.82K |
| 2026-01 | −$512.58K |
| 2025-12 | −$2.21M |
| 2025-11 | −$124.73K |
DSHPX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 2.33% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.27% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.18% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 1.14% |
| United States Of America - Bureau Of The Public Debt | 0.96% |
| Venture Global Plaquemines Lng LLC | 0.87% |
| Global Partners LP / Glp Finance Corp. | 0.85% |
| Wynn Macau Ltd. | 0.76% |
| Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. | 0.66% |
| Aes Corp. (the) | 0.64% |
DSHPX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official BNY Mellon Short Term Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-11-24
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-11-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-11-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-22
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-10-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-10-09
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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.