American Century Short Duration Strategic Income ETF
$50.60−0.17 (−0.34%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.32%
- Fund size
- $302M
- 1Y return
- +2.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.71%
- Holdings
- 451
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.69
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDSI Grade
Score 65 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 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 55Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category 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.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on SDSI
BActive short-duration credit in an ETF wrapper. Managers roam investment-grade and high-yield corporates, government paper and securitized debt, US and overseas, chasing income while keeping rate sensitivity short.
The fund seeks current income and, secondarily, long-term capital appreciation. It uses active bond selection and tactical sector management across U.S. and non-U.S. markets.
Why people hold it
- Short by design. It measures itself against the Bloomberg U.S. 1-3 Year Government/Credit index, so it carries far less rate sensitivity than the intermediate aggregate funds that define this category.americancentury.com
- Go-anywhere toolkit: investment-grade and high-yield corporates, Treasuries and agency paper, mortgage- and asset-backed bonds, US and non-US, spread across roughly 400 positions.americancentury.com
- 0.32% a year undercuts the median fund in its bond cohort, unusual for active management, and holdings are disclosed daily rather than quarterly.americancentury.com
- Income is the stated first objective, with capital appreciation second, and the fund's policy is to pay distributions monthly.
Worth knowing
- Cheap for active, pricey next to index. BND, SCHZ and SPAB each charge 0.03%, so the managers' sector calls carry the whole burden of justifying the gap.
- The high-yield sleeve is where the extra income comes from, and it is also where credit stress shows up first. This is not a Treasury-only short bond fund.americancentury.com
- It trades lightly compared with the index heavyweights in its cohort, which tends to mean wider spreads. Limit orders matter more here than with a mega-fund.
SDSI Holdings
- Bonds
- 451
- 18%
- US TREASURY N/B 09/29 4.375
Sectors
- Communication90.0%
- Industrials7.5%
- Health Care2.5%
Geography
- United States99.34%
- France0.25%
- Belgium0.25%
- Canada0.17%
SDSI 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 | SDSI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.5% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | +0.3% |
| 1 year | +2.8% |
| 3 years | +5.6% |
| 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 | SDSI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.5% | |
| 2025 | +6.5% | |
| 2024 | +5.6% | |
| 2023 | +5.9% | |
| 2022 | +2.4% |
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SDSI Dividends
- 4.71%
- $2.39
- $0.19 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.18 |
| May 6, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.16 |
SDSI Risk
- 1.7%
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.
- 0.63
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.
- −1.3%
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.
- 0.28
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDSI Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
7 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.