IIRRX — Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund

IIRRX Fund Overview

IIRRX — Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Ivy Funds, categorised as 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: Ivy Funds
• Category: Corporate Bond
• Assets under management: $12.42M
• 1-year return: -7.6%
• Ticker: IIRRX
• SEC CIK: 0000883622
• SEC series ID: S000057250
• Share class ID: C000182605

IIRRX Investment Objective and Strategy

Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Ivy Funds.

Investment objective

To seek investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the FTSE High Yield (Treasury Rate-Hedged) Index (Index).

Principal investment strategy

Ivy ProShares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in investments (including debt securities and derivatives) that should track the performance of the Index or in financial instruments that provide similar exposure. The Index is comprised of (a) long positions in U.S. dollar-denominated high yield corporate bonds rated below investment grade (High Yield Bonds) and (b) short positions in U.S. Treasury notes or bonds (Treasury Securities) of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration to the High Yield Bonds. The Index is published under the Bloomberg ticker symbol CFIIHYHG. By taking short Treasury Securities positions, the Index seeks to mitigate the negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates (interest rates) on the performance of such High Yield Bonds (conversely, limiting the positive impact of falling interest rates).

In entering these positions, the Index seeks to achieve an overall effective duration of zero. The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of High Yield Bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling Treasury interest rates. The Fund will invest in long High Yield Bond positions included in the Index, which are designed to represent the more liquid universe of high yield bonds offered within the United States. The issuers of High Yield Bonds, commonly referred to as junk bonds, have a greater risk of default not paying interest or principal in a timely manner. Eligible bonds include High Yield Bonds issued by companies domiciled in the U.S. and Canada that: (i) have a fixed rate (including callable bonds); (ii) have a maximum rating of Ba1/BB+ and a minimum rating of C by both Moodys Investors Service, Inc.

(Moodys) and S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc. (S&P); (iii) have a minimum of $1 billion of face amount outstanding; and (iv) have been issued within the past five years. All eligible issues must have at least one year remaining until maturity. No more than two issues from each issuer are allowed in the Index, and no more than 2% of the Index is allocated to any single issuer. The Index also may include Rule 144A securities (which generally are restricted securities that are available only to qualified investors pursuant to an exemption under the securities laws). The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced (including a reset of the interest rate hedge) on a monthly basis. In seeking to track the Index, the Fund also will invest in derivatives, which are financial instruments whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds, funds (including exchange-traded funds (ETFs)), interest rates or indexes.

The Fund primarily invests in derivatives as a substitute for obtaining short exposure in Treasury Securities, but also may do so to a limited extent to obtain High Yield Bond exposure. These derivatives principally include futures contracts and total return swaps. Futures contracts are standardized contracts traded on, or subject to the rules of, an exchange that call for the future delivery of a specified quantity and type of asset at a specified time and place or, alternatively, may call for cash settlement. Swap agreements are contracts entered into primarily with major global financial institutions for a specified period ranging from a day to more than one year. In a standard swap transaction that this Fund will be entering, one party agrees to pay the return earned or realized on particular predetermined investments or instruments in exchange for a predetermined floating rate.

The gross return to be exchanged or swapped with the floating amount between the parties is calculated with respect to a notional amount (e.g., the return on or change in value of a particular dollar amount invested in a basket of securities). The Fund may invest in derivatives in an amount up to 100% of the Funds total assets. Cash held by the Fund typically will be in money market instruments. Because the Index seeks to hedge against rising Treasury interest rates, the Index is designed to outperform a long-only portfolio of the same High Yield Bonds in a rising interest rate environment and underperform that portfolio in a falling or static interest rate environment. The Index may be more volatile than a long-only position in the same High Yield Bonds. Performance of the Index could be particularly poor in risk-averse, flight-to-quality environments when it is common for High Yield Bonds to decline in value and for interest rates to fall.

In addition, the performance of the Index, and by extension the Fund, depends on many factors beyond rising or falling interest rates, such as the perceived level of credit risk in the High Yield Bonds. These factors may be as or more important to the performance of the Index than the impact of interest rates. As such, there is no guarantee that the Index, and accordingly, the Fund, will have positive performance even in environments of sharply rising interest rates. The Fund invests in a combination of securities and derivatives that ProShare Advisors LLC (ProShare Advisors), the Funds investment subadviser, believes should track the performance of the Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in investments connoted by the Index (i.e., component securities of the Index and comparable securities that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities of the Index).

Under normal circumstances, the Fund also will invest at least 80% of its net assets in High Yield Bonds. ProShare Advisors follows a passive approach to investing that is designed to track the performance of the Index. ProShare Advisors does not invest the assets of the Fund in securities or financial instruments based on ProShare Advisors view of the investment merit of a particular security or company, nor does it conduct conventional investment research or analysis, or forecast market movement or trends, in managing the assets of the Fund. The Fund seeks to remain fully invested at all times in securities and/or financial instruments that, in combination, provide exposure to the Index without regard to market conditions, trends or direction, or the financial condition of a particular High Yield Bond issuer.

The Fund attempts to track the performance of the Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in investments that make up the Index or in financial instruments that provide similar exposure. The Fund may invest in or gain exposure to only a representative sample of the securities in the Index or securities not contained in the Index, or in financial instruments, which exposure is intended to have aggregate characteristics similar to those of the Index, including the general credit profile of the Index, and may invest in securities not contained in the Index. In seeking to match the general credit profile of the Index, ProShare Advisors will rely solely on credit ratings provided by Moodys and S&P. To the extent the Fund is overweight in a security that is perceived by the markets to have increased credit risk, the Funds performance will be adversely affected.

The Fund will concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as the Index is so concentrated. As of the close of business on November 30, 2017, the Index was concentrated in the industrials industry group. ProShares is a registered mark of ProShare Advisors and has been licensed by IICO solely for use in connection with the Fund.

IIRRX Performance

Total returns for IIRRX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

IIRRX Risk Information

Risk metrics for IIRRX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.9%

IIRRX Costs and Fees

IIRRX costs about $144 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 1.44%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.83%
• Portfolio turnover: 54%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.79 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

IIRRX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-06, Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund had net outflows of $5.18M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

IIRRX Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

IIRRX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Delaware Ivy Proshares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Index Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-01-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-01-28
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-02-21
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-08-26
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-05-19
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-02-23
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-12-27
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2020-12-09

Related Funds

Other Corporate Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPE)
• Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund (NPSAX)
• Spectrum Preferred and Capital Securities Income Fund (PNARX)
• Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF (VRP)
• First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPEI)

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.