VSHFX — Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund

VSHFX Fund Overview

VSHFX — Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Virtus Opportunities Trust, categorised as United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US mutual fund
• Manager: Virtus Opportunities Trust
• Category: United States Multi-Cap / All-Cap Blend / Core Equity
• Assets under management: $38.86M
• 1-year return: -32.6%
• Ticker: VSHFX
• SEC CIK: 0001005020
• SEC series ID: S000075281
• Share class ID: C000234182

VSHFX Investment Objective and Strategy

Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Virtus Opportunities Trust.

Investment objective

The fund has an investment objective of seeking to maximize total return, which consists of income on its investments and capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The fund is intended to provide broad exposure to global credit markets. The fund, either directly or through the underlying funds (defined below), may invest in a broad variety of fixed income and other income producing securities and instruments (including derivatives), and will not be limited in terms of type of instrument, geography, credit rating or duration. The fund may invest all or a significant portion of its assets in Virtus Stone Harbor High Yield Bond Fund, Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Debt Income Fund, Virtus Stone Harbor Local Markets Fund and Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets Bond Debt Fund and/or one or more other affiliated funds managed substantially similarly to these funds (together, the underlying funds). The underlying funds listed above are described elsewhere in this Prospectus.

The fund is not required to invest in the underlying funds, and from time to time may not be invested in any underlying fund. The fund will consider the holdings of the underlying funds in which it invests when determining compliance with the 80% policy. In addition to investing in the underlying funds, the fund may invest directly in fixed income securities and in other instruments and transactions. References in this Prospectus to the fund may refer to actions undertaken by the Fund or by an underlying fund. The types of fixed income securities in which the fund may invest include, but are not limited to, government securities; corporate debt securities; mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities issued or guaranteed by various governmental and non-governmental entities; secured and unsecured senior and subordinated loans and loan participations, including mortgages; Rule 144A securities; municipal securities; debentures, notes (including structured notes and promissory notes), and derivatives related to these types of securities.

At any given time, the fund may be entirely or significantly invested in a particular type of fixed income security or underlying fund. The fund may invest in fixed income securities and derivative instruments rated below investment grade (or, if unrated, of comparable quality as determined by the subadviser). These types of securities and debt instruments are commonly referred to as high yield securities or junk bonds and may include, among other things, bonds, debentures, notes, equipment trust certificates, commercial paper, commercial loans, and other obligations of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. The fund may also invest in preferred securities. The fund may invest all or a substantial portion of its assets in securities issued by non-U.S. entities. The funds investments may be issued by any U.S.

or non-U.S. public- or private-sector entity. The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in investments that are economically tied to countries with emerging securities markets or whose performance is linked to those countries markets, economies or ability to repay loans, such as loans issued by corporations or other business organizations. An investment is economically tied to an emerging market country if it is principally traded on the countrys securities markets or if the issuer is organized or principally operates in the country, derives a majority of its income from its operations within the country or has a majority of its assets within the country. All or a significant portion of the funds investments may be denominated in non-U.S. currencies. The fund considers emerging market countries to include countries identified by the World Bank Group as being low income economies or which are included in a JPMorgan emerging market bond index.

The fund may invest in derivatives and other instruments for hedging purposes or to otherwise gain or reduce long or short exposure to securities, markets or currencies. Although the fund and the underlying funds are not limited in the types of derivatives that may be used, the fund currently expects that its derivatives investments will consist primarily of the following instruments and transactions: futures, options, swaps, including credit default swaps, and credit linked notes. The fund may use derivatives to a significant extent. Credit Quality. The fund may invest in securities of any credit rating (including unrated securities) and may invest without limit in higher risk, below-investment grade debt securities. Such securities may include those that are in default with respect to the payment of principal or interest.

Maturity and Duration. The subdviser normally maintains an average portfolio duration of between 2 and 7 years. However, the funds average duration may be outside this range, and the fund may invest in securities of any duration and maturity.

VSHFX Holdings

Top 10 holdings of Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

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VSHFX Portfolio Allocation

Asset-class allocation of Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

VSHFX Performance

Total returns for VSHFX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

VSHFX Risk Information

Risk metrics for VSHFX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 5.4%

VSHFX Costs and Fees

VSHFX costs about $95 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.95%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.64%
• Portfolio turnover: 99%
• Brokerage commissions: 1.23 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

VSHFX Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2023-11, Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund had net inflows of $13.74M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

VSHFX Debt Constituents

Largest debt holdings of Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.

VSHFX Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Virtus Stone Harbor Strategic Income Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-09-26
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-09-27
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-04-05
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2024-01-23
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-10-27
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-07-24
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-08-10
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-08-12

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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.