ELDCX — MFS Limited Maturity Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-28
ELDCX — MFS Limited Maturity Fund. Intermediate Corporate Bond · $3.32B AUM · 1.48% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ELDCX Fund Overview
ELDCX — MFS Limited Maturity Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Mfs Series Trust IX, 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: Mfs Series Trust IX
- Category: Intermediate Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $3.32B
- 1-year return: -2.4%
- Ticker: ELDCX
- SEC CIK: 0000063075
- SEC series ID: S000002495
- Share class ID: C000006749
ELDCX Investment Objective and Strategy
MFS Limited Maturity Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mfs Series Trust IX.
Investment objective
The funds investment objective is to seek total return with an emphasis on current income, but also considering capital preservation.
Principal investment strategy
MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the funds investment adviser) normally invests the funds assets primarily in debt instruments. Debt instruments include U.S. Government securities, corporate bonds, foreign government securities, securitized instruments, and other obligations to repay money borrowed. The funds dollar-weighted average effective maturity will normally not exceed five years. MFS generally invests substantially all of the funds assets in investment grade quality debt instruments. MFS invests the funds assets in U.S. securities and U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities. MFS normally invests the funds assets across different industries, sectors, countries, and regions, but MFS may invest a significant percentage of the funds assets in issuers in a single industry, sector, country, or region.
While MFS may use derivatives for any investment purpose, to the extent MFS uses derivatives, MFS expects to use derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market, segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives include futures, forward contracts, options, structured securities, and swaps. MFS uses an active bottom-up investment approach to buying and selling investments for the fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual instruments and their issuers. Quantitative models that systematically evaluate instruments may also be considered. In structuring the fund, MFS also considers top-down factors.
ELDCX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MFS Limited Maturity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States of America | 8.59% |
| United States of America | 6.80% |
| United States of America | 4.94% |
| MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | 2.22% |
| United States of America | 1.50% |
| United States of America | 1.23% |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | 0.58% |
| Dryden 75 CLO Ltd. | 0.58% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.57% |
| SMBC Aviation Capital Finance DAC | 0.56% |
ELDCX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MFS Limited Maturity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 73.2% |
| Securitized | 24.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.2% |
| Real Estate | 0.1% |
ELDCX Performance
Total returns for ELDCX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -2.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.6% |
ELDCX Risk Information
Risk metrics for ELDCX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 1.1%
ELDCX Costs and Fees
ELDCX costs about $148 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.48%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.57%
- Portfolio turnover: 50%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.05 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ELDCX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-07, MFS Limited Maturity Fund had net inflows of $181.08M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-07 | $5.42M |
| 2026-06 | $10.72M |
| 2026-05 | −$12.00M |
| 2026-04 | $21.28M |
| 2026-03 | $12.40M |
| 2026-02 | $11.86M |
ELDCX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of MFS Limited Maturity Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States of America | 8.59% |
| United States of America | 6.80% |
| United States of America | 4.94% |
| United States of America | 1.50% |
| United States of America | 1.23% |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | 0.58% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.57% |
| SMBC Aviation Capital Finance DAC | 0.56% |
| Bacardi Ltd. | 0.55% |
| PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) | 0.54% |
ELDCX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MFS Limited Maturity Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-08-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-08-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-08-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-07-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-07-10
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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.