IYIBX — Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund
Data updated: 2023-08-29
IYIBX — Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund. Municipal - National Bond · $487.12M AUM · 1.62% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
IYIBX Fund Overview
IYIBX — Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Ivy Funds, categorised as Municipal - National 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: Municipal - National Bond
- Assets under management: $487.12M
- 1-year return: -0.6%
- Ticker: IYIBX
- SEC CIK: 0000883622
- SEC series ID: S000025600
- Share class ID: C000076688
IYIBX Investment Objective and Strategy
Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Ivy Funds.
Investment objective
To seek to provide a high level of current income that is not subject to Federal income tax.
Principal investment strategy
Ivy Municipal High Income Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of municipal bonds. Municipal bonds are obligations issued by or on behalf of states, territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam), the interest on which is excludable from gross income for Federal income tax purposes, although a significant portion of such interest may be an item of tax preference for purposes of the Federal alternative minimum tax (AMT) (Tax Preference Item). (Under 2017 legislation commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, corporations no longer are subject to the AMT for taxable years of the corporation beginning after December 31, 2017.) The Fund typically invests at least 65% of its total assets in medium- and lower-quality bonds that include bonds rated BBB+ or lower by S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc.
(S&P), or comparably rated by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO) or, if unrated, determined by IICO to be of comparable quality. Such investments include non-investment grade debt securities, commonly called high yield or junk bonds, which typically are rated BB+ or lower by S&P or comparably rated by another NRSRO or, if unrated, determined by IICO to be of comparable quality. The Fund may invest up to 100% of its total assets in non-investment grade bonds. Although IICO considers credit ratings in selecting investments for the Fund, IICO bases its investment decision for a particular instrument primarily on its own credit analysis and not on a NRSROs credit rating. IICO will consider, among other things, the issuers financial resources and operating history, its sensitivity to economic conditions and trends, its debt maturity schedules and borrowing requirements, and relative values based on anticipated cash flow, and interest and asset coverage.
IICOs view on interest rates largely determines the desired duration of the Funds holdings and how to structure the portfolio to achieve a duration target. In current market conditions, the Fund invests primarily in municipal bonds with remaining maturities of 10 to 30 years. The Fund may invest in higher-quality municipal bonds at times when yield spreads are narrow and IICO believes that the higher yields do not justify the increased risk, and/or when, in the opinion of IICO, there is a lack of medium- and lower-quality bonds in which to invest. After conducting a top-down (assessing the market environment) analysis of the municipal high income market, IICO uses a research-oriented, bottom-up (researching individual issuers) credit-by-credit investment approach. IICO considers a number of factors in selecting individual securities for the Funds portfolio, including the securitys current coupon, the maturity, relative value and market yield of the security, the creditworthiness of the particular issuer or of the private company involved, the sector in which the security is identified, the structure of the security, including whether it has a call feature, and the state in which the security is issued.
The Fund primarily invests in revenue bonds: revenue bonds are payable only from specific sources, such as the revenue from a particular project, a special tax, lease payments and/or appropriated funds. Revenue bonds include certain private activity bonds (PABs), which finance privately operated facilities. Revenue bonds also include housing bonds that finance pools of single-family home mortgages and student loan bonds that finance pools of student loans, as well as bonds that finance charter schools. Revenue bonds also include tobacco bonds that are issued by state-created special purpose entities as a means to securitize a states share of annual tobacco settlement revenues. The Fund may invest in PABs in general, in revenue bonds payable from revenues derived from similar projects, such as those in the health care, life care, education, transportation and special tax sectors, and in municipal bonds of issuers located in the same geographical area.
Generally, in determining whether to sell a security, IICO uses the same type of analysis that it uses when buying securities to determine whether the security continues to be a desired investment for the Fund, including consideration of the securitys current credit quality. Additionally, IICO may sell a security to reduce the Funds holding in that security, to take advantage of what it believes are more attractive investment opportunities or to raise cash.
IYIBX Performance
Total returns for IYIBX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -0.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -0.6% |
IYIBX Risk Information
Risk metrics for IYIBX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 0.0%
IYIBX Costs and Fees
IYIBX costs about $162 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.62%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.76%
- Portfolio turnover: 79%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
IYIBX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-06, Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund had net inflows of $494.30M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-06 | $16.38M |
| 2023-05 | $18.41M |
| 2023-04 | $22.96M |
| 2023-03 | $25.11M |
| 2023-02 | $25.77M |
| 2023-01 | $27.78M |
IYIBX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
IYIBX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Delaware Ivy Municipal High Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-07-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-07-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-07-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-02-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-06-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-06-14
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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.