MXGDX — Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund
Data updated: 2022-07-07
MXGDX — Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund. Short Total / Aggregate Bond · $6.44M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
MXGDX Fund Overview
MXGDX — Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Empower Funds, Inc., categorised as Short Total / Aggregate Bond. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Empower Funds, Inc.
- Category: Short Total / Aggregate Bond
- Assets under management: $6.44M
- 1-year return: -0.5%
- Ticker: MXGDX
- SEC CIK: 0000356476
- SEC series ID: S000061892
- Share class ID: C000204668
MXGDX Investment Objective and Strategy
Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Empower Funds, Inc..
Investment objective
The Fund seeks maximum total return that is consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in investment grade bonds. The Fund will select securities based on relative value, maturity, quality and sector. The Fund will maintain an actively managed portfolio of bonds selected from several categories, including U.S. Treasuries and agency securities, commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and corporate bonds. The Fund will maintain a dollar weighted average duration between one and three years based on the portfolio managers’ forecast for interest rates. The Fund may invest up to 20% its net assets in below investment grade quality (“high yield-high risk” or “junk”) bonds and bank loans.
For purposes of pursuing its investment goals, the Fund may, from time to time, enter into derivative contracts, including futures contracts on U.S. Treasury securities.
MXGDX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury Notes | 16.88% |
| Bank of Nova Scotia | 2.42% |
| American Express Company | 2.05% |
| Georgia-Pacific LLC | 2.04% |
| J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | 1.96% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1.95% |
| AbbVie Inc. | 1.94% |
| EMD Finance LLC | 1.93% |
| Metropolitan Life Global Funding I | 1.70% |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 1.70% |
MXGDX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 87.8% |
| Securitized | 2.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.6% |
| Loans | 0.2% |
MXGDX Performance
Total returns for MXGDX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | -0.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 1.5% |
MXGDX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MXGDX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 0.8%
MXGDX Costs and Fees
MXGDX costs about $85 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.85%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.95%
- Portfolio turnover: 193%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MXGDX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2021-10, Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund had net outflows of $1.10B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2021-10 | −$1.42M |
| 2021-09 | −$1.41M |
| 2021-08 | −$1.42M |
| 2021-07 | −$402.57K |
| 2021-06 | −$252.03K |
| 2021-05 | −$124.73K |
MXGDX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury Notes | 16.88% |
| Bank of Nova Scotia | 2.42% |
| American Express Company | 2.05% |
| Georgia-Pacific LLC | 2.04% |
| J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | 1.96% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1.95% |
| AbbVie Inc. | 1.94% |
| EMD Finance LLC | 1.93% |
| Metropolitan Life Global Funding I | 1.70% |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 1.70% |
MXGDX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Great-West Core Strategies: Short Duration Bond Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-08-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-09-09
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2019-09-06
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-12-10
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-09-15
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2021-06-22
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-07-07
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-07-06
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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.