Sterling Capital Enhanced Core Bond ETF
$24.03−0.24 (−0.99%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $604M
- 1Y return
- −0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.08%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.21
- 52W range
The ETF.net SCEC Grade
Score 58 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.DScore 36Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 98Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 35Category rank
Our read on SCEC
BA core bond fund that declines to take core bond rate risk. Sterling's active team stays anchored in investment-grade credit but holds average duration to 18 months or less, so yield swings hit the portfolio far more softly.
The Fund seeks enhanced core-bond exposure by actively allocating primarily to fixed-income securities, with investment-grade bonds as the main focus and limited below-investment-grade exposure. It maintains an average duration of 18 months or less.
Why people hold it
- The mandate caps average duration at 18 months or less, keeping price moves from shifting rates short and shallow versus longer core bond portfolios.
- Actively managed with investment-grade bonds doing the heavy lifting and only limited below-investment-grade exposure, so the yield reach stays a sleeve, not the whole bet.
- Pays monthly, and the portfolio it actually holds lines up closely with the strategy the prospectus describes.
- Sits in the upper half of a crowded 187-fund aggregate-bond group despite being one of its newest entrants.
Worth knowing
- At 0.39% it runs above the 0.36% category median, and index-tracking rivals like BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%. Active management is the line item you are paying for.
- Short duration cuts both ways: muted damage when yields rise, muted lift when they fall. This is not a stand-in for full aggregate-index duration.
- Launched in 2025, so the live record is short and the fund is still building scale next to the index giants in its group.
SCEC Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 16%
- T 4 1/4 08/15/54
SCEC 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 | SCEC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −1.5% |
| 1 year | −0.1% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | SCEC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.2% | |
| 2025 | +5.0% |
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SCEC Dividends
- 5.08%
- $1.23
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.10 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.09 |
SCEC Risk
- 3.2%
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.
- −0.42
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.
- −3.2%
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.
- 0.09
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SCEC Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
65 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.