SCBLX — Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund

SCBLX Fund Overview

SCBLX — Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Asset Trust, categorised as Long 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: Virtus Asset Trust
• Category: Long Total / Aggregate Bond
• Assets under management: $78.08M
• Ticker: SCBLX
• SEC CIK: 0001018593
• SEC series ID: S000057031
• Share class ID: C000181190

SCBLX Investment Objective and Strategy

Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Virtus Asset Trust.

Investment objective

The fund has an investment objective of seeking to maximize long term total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation, consistent with capital preservation.

Principal investment strategy

The fund invests in various types of income-producing debt instruments including mortgage- and asset-backed securities, government and agency obligations, corporate obligations and floating rate loans. The fund may invest in debt obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, including emerging market debt. The funds investment in non-U.S. issuers may at times be significant. Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in fixed income securities. These securities will be chosen from the broad universe of available fixed income obligations rated investment grade, or unrated instruments that the subadviser believes are of comparable quality. There are no limits on the funds average-weighted maturity or on the remaining maturities of individual instruments in which the fund may invest.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in below investment grade, high yield debt obligations (sometimes referred to as junk bonds). The fund may also invest a portion of its assets in instruments that are restricted as to resale. As a result of its investment strategy, the funds portfolio turnover rate may be 100% or more. The subadviser anticipates that the funds modified-adjusted duration will mirror that of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, plus or minus 20%. For example, if the duration of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is 5 years, the funds duration may be 4 to 6 years. As of December 31, 2025,, the duration of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index was 5.98 years. Duration measures a bond or funds sensitivity to interest rate or other changes (such as changes in a bonds yield) and is expressed as a number of years.

The higher the number, the greater the risk. Under normal circumstances, for example, if a portfolio has a duration of 5 years, its value will change by 5% if yields change by 1%. Shorter duration bonds generally result in lower expected volatility. In selecting investments for purchase and sale, the subadviser generally selects a greater weighting in corporate obligations and mortgage-backed securities relative to the funds comparative benchmark, and a lower relative weighting in U.S. Treasury and government agency issues. In addition, to implement its investment strategy, the fund may buy or sell derivative instruments (such as foreign currency forward contracts, swaps, including credit default swaps, futures, credit linked notes, options, inverse floaters and warrants) to use as a substitute for a purchase or sale of a position in the underlying assets and/or as part of a strategy designed to reduce exposure to other risks, such as interest rate or credit risks.

The fund may also utilize Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) opportunistically. The fund may count the value of certain derivatives with investment grade fixed income characteristics towards its policy to invest, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities.

SCBLX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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SCBLX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

SCBLX Costs and Fees

SCBLX costs about $93 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.93%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.93%
• Portfolio turnover: 147%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.10 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

SCBLX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund had net outflows of $30.96M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

SCBLX Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

SCBLX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Virtus Seix Total Return Bond Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-20
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-23
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-24
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-29
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17

Related Funds

Other Long Total / Aggregate Bond funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• Dodge & Cox Income Fund (DODIX)
• Bond Fund Of America (ABNDX)
• Fidelity U.S. Bond Index Fund (FUBFX)
• Baird Aggregate Bond Fund (BAGIX)
• PGIM Total Return Bond Fund (PDBAX)

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.