Hartford Strategic Income ETF
$34.08−0.32 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $1.2B
- 1Y return
- +1.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.64%
- Holdings
- 1099
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.32
- 52W range
The ETF.net HFSI Grade
Score 61 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.CScore 41Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 93Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 63Category rank
Our read on HFSI
BA Wellington-run bond fund that roams: high yield, bank loans, emerging-markets debt, rotating as the managers see fit. Benchmarked against the Agg, built nothing like it, and it pays income monthly.
The Fund seeks current income and long-term total return by investing primarily in domestic and foreign debt securities selected for attractive yield while considering total return.
Why people hold it
- Active sector rotation is the whole point. Wellington's sector specialists select across high yield, bank loans and emerging-markets debt, a different engine than an index fund stacked with Treasuries.hartfordfunds.com
- The portfolio does what the prospectus says: domestic and foreign debt picked for yield with total return in mind. Income lands monthly.
- Over a billion dollars in assets and steady daily volume, so getting in and out rarely means wrestling the spread.
- Among the stronger showings in a crowded aggregate-bond field, largely on how closely the holdings match the stated go-anywhere mandate.
Worth knowing
- 0.49% a year is real money next to the index staples: BND, SPAB and SCHZ each charge 0.03%. You are paying for a manager's judgment, not beta.
- Junk bonds, bank loans and emerging-markets debt carry credit risk Treasuries do not. Expect it to behave more like a credit sleeve than a core ballast holding.hartfordfunds.com
- It was the Hartford Sustainable Income ETF until 2024, when the name, objective and strategy all changed. Track record from before that reflects a different fund.hartfordfunds.com
HFSI Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,099
- 24%
- FNMA TBA 30 YR 5.5 SINGLE FAMILY MORTGAGE
Geography
- United States97.00%
- Mexico0.45%
- Poland0.30%
- Malaysia0.30%
- France0.27%
- Colombia0.25%
- Spain0.21%
- South Africa0.21%
- 1.02%
HFSI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | HFSI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.3% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +1.5% |
| 3 years | +8.2% |
| 5 years | +2.3% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | HFSI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.3% | |
| 2025 | +9.6% | |
| 2024 | +7.9% | |
| 2023 | +9.9% | |
| 2022 | −12.6% | |
| 2021 | −1.5% |
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HFSI Dividends
- 5.64%
- $1.94
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 28, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Apr 1, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.16 |
HFSI Risk
- 5.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −19.3%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.33
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HFSI Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
15 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.