PLSSX — Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-25
PLSSX — Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund. Target Date / Glide Path Allocation · $787.05M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
PLSSX Fund Overview
PLSSX — Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Principal Funds, Inc., categorised as Target Date / Glide Path Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Principal Funds, Inc.
- Category: Target Date / Glide Path Allocation
- Assets under management: $787.05M
- 1-year return: 16.4%
- Ticker: PLSSX
- SEC CIK: 0000898745
- SEC series ID: S000007211
- Share class ID: C000019781
PLSSX Investment Objective and Strategy
Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Principal Funds, Inc..
Investment objective
The Fund seeks current income
Principal investment strategy
The Fund invests according to an asset allocation strategy designed for investors primarily seeking current income and secondarily capital appreciation. The Fund's asset allocation is designed for investors who are approximately 15 years beyond the normal retirement age of 65. The Fund is a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds of Principal Funds, Inc. (PFI). Its underlying funds consist of domestic and foreign equity funds, fixed-income funds, real asset funds, and other funds that aim to offer diversification beyond traditional equity and fixed-income securities. The diversification of the Fund is designed to moderate overall price volatility. The Fund may add, remove, or substitute underlying funds at any time. The Fund is managed with strategic or long-term asset class targets and target ranges.
There is a rebalancing strategy that aligns with the target weights to identify asset classes that are either overweight or underweight. The Fund may shift asset class targets in response to normal evaluative processes, the shortening time horizon of the Fund or changes in market forces or Fund circumstances. In selecting underlying funds and target weights, the Fund considers both quantitative measures (e.g., past performance, expected levels of risk and returns, expense levels, diversification and style consistency) and qualitative factors (e.g., organizational stability, investment experience, investment and risk management processes, and information, trading, and compliance systems). There are no minimum or maximum percentages of assets that the Fund must invest in a specific asset class or underlying fund.
The underlying funds invest in growth and value stocks of large market capitalization companies, fixed-income securities, domestic and foreign securities, securities denominated in foreign currencies, investment companies (including index funds), securitized products, U.S. government and U.S. government-sponsored securities, and derivatives. A derivative is a financial arrangement, the value of which is derived from, or based on, a traditional security, asset, or market index. The underlying funds principally use futures, options, swaps (including, for example, credit default, interest rate, and currency swaps) and forwards in order to gain exposure to a variety of securities or asset classes or attempt to reduce risk.
PLSSX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Core Fixed Income Fund | 33.84% |
| Short-Term Income Fund | 16.77% |
| LargeCap S&P 500 Index Fund | 9.14% |
| International Equity Fund | 8.93% |
| High Yield Fund | 6.47% |
| Inflation Protection Fund | 5.64% |
| Equity Income Fund | 2.63% |
| LargeCap Value Fund III | 2.60% |
| Global Emerging Markets Fund | 2.47% |
| LargeCap Growth Fund I | 2.22% |
PLSSX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.8% |
PLSSX Performance
Total returns for PLSSX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 16.4% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 0.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.3% |
PLSSX Risk Information
Risk metrics for PLSSX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 7.5%
PLSSX Costs and Fees
PLSSX costs about $89 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.89%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.89%
- Portfolio turnover: 24%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.00 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
PLSSX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund had net outflows of $91.66M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$26.80M |
| 2026-03 | −$16.50M |
| 2026-02 | −$11.44M |
| 2026-01 | $12.86M |
| 2025-12 | $9.40M |
| 2025-11 | −$6.15M |
PLSSX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
PLSSX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-02-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
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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.