PSFTX — PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments
Data updated: 2026-09-25
PSFTX — PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments. Intermediate Corporate Bond · $392.62M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
PSFTX Fund Overview
PSFTX — PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments is a US mutual fund managed by Pace Select Advisors Trust, categorised as Intermediate 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: Pace Select Advisors Trust
- Category: Intermediate Corporate Bond
- Assets under management: $392.62M
- Ticker: PSFTX
- SEC CIK: 0000930007
- SEC series ID: S000002698
- Share class ID: C000228104
PSFTX Investment Objective and Strategy
PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Pace Select Advisors Trust.
Investment objective
Total return consisting of income and capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
"Principal investments The fund invests in bonds of varying maturities, but normally limits its portfolio duration to within +/- 50% of the effective duration of the fund's benchmark index, Bloomberg Barclays US Government/Credit Index, as calculated by the investment advisor, which as of July 31, 2018 was approximately 6.35 years. Duration is a measure of the fund's exposure to interest rate riska longer duration means that changes in market interest rates are likely to have a larger effect on the value of the fund's portfolio. Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowing for investment purposes) in investment grade fixed income securities. Such investments may include US government bonds, bonds that are backed by mortgages and other assets, bonds (including convertible bonds) of US and foreign private issuers, foreign government bonds (including bonds issued by supranational and quasi-governmental entities), foreign currency exchange-related securities, loan participations and assignments, repurchase agreements, municipals, structured notes, and money market instruments (including commercial paper and certificates of deposit).
There are different types of US government securities, including those issued or guaranteed by the US government, its agencies and its instrumentalities, and they have different types of government support. Some are supported by the full faith and credit of the US, while others are supported by (1) the ability of the issuer to borrow from the US Treasury; (2) the credit of the issuing agency, instrumentality or government-sponsored entity; (3) pools of assets, such as mortgages; or (4) the US government in some other way. The fund also invests, to a limited extent, in bonds that are below investment grade. Securities rated below investment grade (or unrated bonds of equivalent quality) are commonly known as ""junk bonds."" The fund may invest in when-issued or delayed delivery bonds to increase its return, giving rise to a form of leverage.
The fund may invest in preferred securities. The fund may invest in ""to be announced"" or ""TBA"" securities, which are mortgage-backed securities that usually are traded on a forward commitment basis with an approximate principal amount and no defined maturity date, issued or guaranteed by US government agencies and instrumentalities. The fund also may engage in TBA and Treasury ""roll"" transactions. A TBA roll transaction is a strategy whereby the investment advisor decides to sell one TBA security and buy another TBA security due at a later date (Treasury roll transactions differ in that the underlying securities are US Treasury securities). The fund may, but is not required to, use exchange-traded or over-the-counter derivative instruments for risk management purposes or to attempt to increase total returns.
The derivatives in which the fund may invest include options (on securities and swap agreements), futures (on securities or interest rate futures), currency forward agreements, swap agreements (specifically, interest rate and credit default swaps) and structured notes. These derivatives may be used for risk management purposes, such as hedging the fund's security, index, currency, interest rate or other exposure, or otherwise managing the risk profile of the fund. In addition, the derivative instruments listed above may be used in place of direct investments; to obtain or adjust exposure to certain markets; or to establish net short positions in markets, currencies or securities. Options, interest rate futures and swaps may also be used to adjust the fund's portfolio duration. The fund's investment strategies may result in high portfolio turnover.
Management process The fund employs a ""manager of managers"" structure. UBS Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (""UBS AM""), the fund's manager and primary provider of investment advisory services, has the ultimate authority, subject to oversight by the fund's board, to oversee the fund's subadvisor(s) and recommend their hiring, termination and replacement, and to allocate assets among the fund's subadvisor(s). The relative value of each subadvisor's share of the fund's assets may change over time. UBS AM's investment process begins with subadvisor selection. UBS AM's portfolio management team constructs a list of potential subadvisors based on information primarily from internal sources and the team's collective knowledge of the industry, but also supplemented by external sources. The team then focuses its research on that list to identify a small number of the most attractive candidates.
This research includes analyzing the portfolio holdings and/or positioning of a subadvisor's investment strategy to understand whether the allocation of risk and the drivers of alpha are consistent with the subadvisor's investment philosophy and stated strengths. The most attractive sub-set of those subadvisors is then selected for in-depth, on-site due diligence meetings with representatives from the investment, operations and compliance groups within UBS AM. The due diligence information is then synthesized to select the most attractive candidate(s) for the fund, subject to the board's approval. In managing the fund and overseeing the fund's subadvisor(s), UBS AM views its research process as an ongoing one, as the team continually seeks to confirm a subadvisor's investment thesis over the appropriate investment horizon.
In general, UBS AM leverages its research and market knowledge to construct funds with exposure to various subadvisors that are expected, in combination, to produce the desired overall fund characteristics. UBS AM's ongoing monitoring and risk management process incorporates daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual responsibilities designed to monitor the drivers of fund risk and performance at the subadvisor level and at the overall fund level. Through this process, UBS AM may adjust a fund's positioning by altering its allocation weights across subadvisors within the fund and/or by changing the specific subadvisors within the fund. The main strategies of the subadvisors include: A strategy that focuses on those areas of the bond market that the subadvisor considers undervalued. An ""opportunistic fixed income"" strategy that employs a consistently applied, risk managed approach to portfolio management that leverages the subadvisor's proprietary fundamental research capabilities, decision making frameworks and quantitative risk management tools."
PSFTX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Umbs, Tba | 1.74% |
| State Street Global Advisors | 1.68% |
| United States Treasury | 1.67% |
| United States Treasury | 1.45% |
| United States Treasury | 1.44% |
| United States Treasury | 1.40% |
| United States Treasury | 1.34% |
| United States Treasury | 1.02% |
| Swiss Re Finance Lux | 0.86% |
| United States Treasury | 0.85% |
PSFTX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Fixed Income | 63.9% |
| Securitized | 30.2% |
| Loans | 8.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 3.7% |
| Equity | 1.9% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
PSFTX Performance
Total returns for PSFTX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | -0.3% |
| 1 year | 3.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 5.2% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 0.6% |
PSFTX Risk Information
Risk metrics for PSFTX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 3.5%
PSFTX Costs and Fees
PSFTX costs about $61 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.61%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.91%
- Portfolio turnover: 219%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.56 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
PSFTX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments had net outflows of $18.72M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$2.28M |
| 2026-03 | −$1.84M |
| 2026-02 | −$863.33K |
| 2026-01 | −$2.94M |
| 2025-12 | −$4.28M |
| 2025-11 | $470.90K |
PSFTX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 1.67% |
| United States Treasury | 1.45% |
| United States Treasury | 1.44% |
| United States Treasury | 1.40% |
| United States Treasury | 1.34% |
| United States Treasury | 1.02% |
| Swiss Re Finance Lux | 0.86% |
| United States Treasury | 0.85% |
| Sba Tower Trust | 0.80% |
| F&g Annuities & Life, Inc. | 0.71% |
PSFTX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official PACE Strategic Fixed Income Investments filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-11-25
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-11-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-11-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-30
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-10-14
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-10-15
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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.