LHISX — Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund
Data updated: 2026-07-22
LHISX — Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund. Long Municipal - National Bond · $29.18M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
LHISX Fund Overview
LHISX — Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Legg Mason Partners Income Trust, categorised as Long 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: Legg Mason Partners Income Trust
- Category: Long Municipal - National Bond
- Assets under management: $29.18M
- Ticker: LHISX
- SEC CIK: 0000764624
- SEC series ID: S000016629
- Share class ID: C000187790
LHISX Investment Objective and Strategy
Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Legg Mason Partners Income Trust.
Investment objective
The fund seeks to provide Massachusetts investors with as high a level of current income exempt from federal income tax and Massachusetts personal income taxes as is consistent with the preservation of principal.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in investment grade Massachusetts municipal securities or other investments with similar economic characteristics. Massachusetts municipal securities are securities the interest on which is exempt from regular federal income tax and Massachusetts state personal income taxes. The funds 80% policy may not be changed without a shareholder vote. Interest on Massachusetts municipal securities may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. Massachusetts municipal securities include debt obligations issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its political subdivisions, agencies and public authorities, certain other governmental issuers (such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam) and other qualifying issuers.
These securities include participation or other interests in municipal securities issued or backed by banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. Some municipal securities, such as general obligation issues, are backed by the issuers taxing authority, while other municipal securities, such as revenue issues, are backed only by revenues from certain facilities or other sources and not by the issuer itself. The fund focuses on investment grade bonds (that is, securities rated in the Baa/BBB categories or above or, if unrated, determined to be of comparable credit quality by the subadviser) but may invest up to 20% of its assets in below investment grade bonds (commonly known as high yield or junk bonds). The fund may invest in securities of any maturity. The fund focuses primarily on intermediate-term and long-term municipal securities, and will normally invest in securities which have remaining maturities at the time of purchase from one to more than thirty years.
The fund may also invest in securities of other open-end or closed-end investment companies, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), that invest primarily in municipal securities. Instead of, and/or in addition to, investing directly in particular securities, the fund may use instruments such as derivatives, including options, futures contracts and inverse floating rate instruments issued in tender option bond transactions, and other synthetic instruments that are intended to provide economic exposure to the securities or the issuer or to be used as a hedging technique. The fund may use one or more types of these instruments without limit, except that these instruments are taken into account when determining compliance with the funds 80% policy. For additional information regarding derivatives, see More on the funds investment strategies, investments and risksDerivatives in this Prospectus.
The fund may also engage in a variety of transactions using derivatives in order to change the investment characteristics of its portfolio (such as shortening or lengthening duration) and for other purposes. The fund may leverage its assets by investing proceeds received through tender option bond transactions, which is considered a form of borrowing. See More on the funds investment strategies, investments and risksTender option bonds in this Prospectus. The fund is classified as non-diversified, which means it may invest a larger percentage of its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.
LHISX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 6.48% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 6.17% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 5.49% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 5.05% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 4.71% |
| Plymouth (ma), City Of | 4.67% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 4.55% |
| Massachusetts Port Authority (ma) | 4.39% |
| Massachusetts (ma), Commonwealth Of | 4.02% |
| Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (ma) | 3.63% |
LHISX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 98.8% |
LHISX Performance
Total returns for LHISX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 1.9% |
| 1 year | 7.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 3.4% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 0.1% |
LHISX Risk Information
Risk metrics for LHISX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 4.3%
LHISX Costs and Fees
LHISX costs about $52 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.52%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.93%
- Portfolio turnover: 10%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.02 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
LHISX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-05, Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund had net outflows of $8.97M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | −$1.14M |
| 2026-04 | −$308.74K |
| 2026-03 | $343.09K |
| 2026-02 | $145.14K |
| 2026-01 | $498.06K |
| 2025-12 | −$4.79M |
LHISX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 6.48% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 6.17% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 5.49% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 5.05% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 4.71% |
| Plymouth (ma), City Of | 4.67% |
| Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (ma) | 4.55% |
| Massachusetts Port Authority (ma) | 4.39% |
| Massachusetts (ma), Commonwealth Of | 4.02% |
| Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (ma) | 3.63% |
LHISX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Western Asset Massachusetts Municipals Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-03-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-03-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-03-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-07-22
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-04-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-01-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-02-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-02-05
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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.