FFLX — First Trust Flexible Income ETF

Data updated: 2026-09-28

FFLX — First Trust Flexible Income ETF. Bond · 0.65% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

FFLX Fund Overview

FFLX — First Trust Flexible Income ETF is a US ETF managed by First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII, categorised as Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

FFLX Investment Objective and Strategy

First Trust Flexible Income ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII.

Investment objective

The First Trust Flexible Income ETF (the "Fund" ) seeks to maximize current income.

Principal investment strategy

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will seek to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio of fixed income securities and instruments that generate income, including but not limited to corporate debt securities; bank loans; agency and non-agency residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities; asset-backed securities; collateralized loan obligations ( “CLOs” ); and preferred securities. Under normal market conditions, the Fund’s average portfolio duration will vary from between 0 to 8 years, although the Fund generally targets an average portfolio duration of 2 to 5 years. The Fund may invest in securities of any maturity, and there is no limit on the weighted average maturity of the Fund’s portfolio. The Fund’s investment advisor seeks to maximize the Fund's current income while pursuing attractive long-term total return by investing in a broad, diversified portfolio of fixed income securities and instruments that generate income, spanning the credit spectrum across various sectors, maturities, currencies, and geographies.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective through an active, opportunistic, and relative value-driven approach that emphasizes tactical allocations across duration management ( i.e., adjusting a portfolio’s sensitivity to interest rate changes), yield curve positioning ( i.e., allocating investments across maturities based on expected movements in the yield curve, which is a representation of the yields (interest rates) available on bonds of comparable credit quality across a range of maturities at a given point in time), sector weighting, credit quality, and individual security selection. The Fund's investment decisions are informed by a rigorous, multi-faceted process that integrates macroeconomic factors, quantitative analyses, and fundamental/technical drivers. The Fund's investment advisor oversees comprehensive risk allocation, including duration, yield curve positioning, sector weighting, and overall port

FFLX Costs and Fees

FFLX costs about $65 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

  • Net expense ratio: 0.65%
  • Gross expense ratio: 0.75%
  • Portfolio turnover: 130%

FFLX Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in First Trust Flexible Income ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

FFLX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official First Trust Flexible Income ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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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.