Virtus Seix Senior Loan ETF
$23.27+0.00 (+0.02%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.57%
- Fund size
- $288M
- 1Y return
- +5.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.99%
- Holdings
- 198
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net SEIX Grade
Score 55 of 100 sits in the C 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.BScore 65Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 32Category 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.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 37Category rank
Our read on SEIX
CMost funds in this corner of the bond market buy fixed-rate high-yield bonds and follow an index. SEIX does neither: an actively picked book of senior loans built around one job, a high level of current income, paid out monthly.
The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income.
Why people hold it
- Senior loans, not high-yield bonds. A different slice of corporate credit than the index trackers that dominate this category.
- Actively run, roughly 200 loans chosen by the Seix credit team rather than whatever a benchmark happens to hold.
- Cash lands monthly, which matches a mandate written around current income rather than price appreciation.
- Trading since 2019, mid-sized, and moderately traded day to day, so the strategy has a real operating history behind it.
Worth knowing
- 0.57% a year, above the 0.40% category norm and far above index trackers like SCYB at 0.03% or SPHY at 0.05%. Hand-picked loan credit carries a price tag.
- No declared index to measure against. Outcomes ride on the manager's loan selection, so the usual tracking yardstick doesn't apply.
- It is grouped with high-yield bond funds, so side-by-side comparisons line up the risk bucket, not the instrument being bought.
SEIX Holdings
- Other
- 198
- 13%
- Cash/Cash equivalents
Sectors
- Real Estate100.0%
Geography
- United States78.25%
- Luxembourg12.71%
- Ireland9.04%
SEIX 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 | SEIX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +4.6% |
| 1 month | +0.9% |
| 3 months | +2.2% |
| 1 year | +5.8% |
| 3 years | +7.1% |
| 5 years | +6.0% |
| 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 | SEIX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +4.6% | |
| 2025 | +5.1% | |
| 2024 | +8.4% | |
| 2023 | +12.5% | |
| 2022 | −1.8% | |
| 2021 | +5.5% | |
| 2020 | +3.2% |
SEIX in the news
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SEIX Dividends
- 6.99%
- $1.63
- $0.14 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.14 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.14 |
SEIX 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.
- 1.41
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.
- −6.7%
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.
- 0.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SEIX Cost
- The middle half of Bank Loan funds
- Median 0.62%
3 of the 11 Bank Loan funds charge less.