Alliance Bernstein - AB Short Duration Income ETF
$34.98−0.06 (−0.17%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $194M
- 1Y return
- +1.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.55%
- Holdings
- 589
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDFI Grade
Score 64 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.AScore 82Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 70Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 61Category 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.CScore 42Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 25Category rank
Our read on SDFI
BA converted mutual fund, not an index clone: AB's bond team roams corporate, securitized and government debt while keeping duration on a short leash. It costs less than the typical fund in its cohort and pays monthly.
The fund is actively managed and invests across multiple bond sectors with a short-duration focus. It seeks attractive income while aiming to maximize risk-adjusted returns.
Why people hold it
- Active multi-sector mandate: managers pick across corporate, securitized and government bonds instead of copying one index.prnewswire.com
- At 0.30% a year, it sits below the median fee in its bond cohort.
- Average duration typically stays under three years, so rate swings move its price less than a core aggregate bond portfolio.alliancebernstein.comaaii.com
- Pays monthly, spread across roughly 600 bond positions.
Worth knowing
- You pay for the active call. Index anchors in the same cohort (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) charge 0.03%.
- Thinly traded and modest in size, so spreads can run wider than the category's volume leaders.
- Listed in June 2024 as a mutual fund conversion, so the ETF-era track record is short.prnewswire.com
SDFI Holdings
- Bonds
- 589
- 34%
- US 5YR NOTE (CBT) DEC26 XCBT 20261231
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States78.59%
- United Kingdom5.03%
- Brazil3.18%
- Canada2.62%
- France1.89%
- Ireland1.55%
- Australia1.31%
- Japan1.19%
- 4.64%
SDFI 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 | SDFI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.8% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 1 year | +1.9% |
| 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 | SDFI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.8% | |
| 2025 | +6.4% | |
| 2024 | +3.5% |
SDFI in the news
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SDFI Dividends
- 4.55%
- $1.59
- $0.13 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.13 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.13 |
SDFI Risk
- 1.8%
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.
- 0.46
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.
- −1.2%
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.
- 0.37
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDFI Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
5 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.