Touchstone Strategic Income ETF
$24.94−0.17 (−0.68%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.82%
- Fund size
- $295M
- 1Y return
- +1.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.98%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.05
- 52W range
The ETF.net SIO Grade
Score 43 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.FScore 11Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 62Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 47Category rank
Our read on SIO
CAn actively run, go-anywhere income portfolio in an ETF wrapper: Touchstone's managers hunt yield across global fixed income and pay out monthly, in a corner of the market otherwise ruled by cheap index trackers.
The Fund seeks a high level of current income while emphasizing capital preservation. It invests primarily in income-producing fixed-income securities through an actively managed, yield-oriented strategy.
Why people hold it
- Unconstrained by design: a high-conviction, yield-oriented mandate that roams global fixed income instead of replicating the aggregate-bond index.
- Income lands monthly, and the stated objective pairs high current income with an emphasis on capital preservation.
- Plain 1940 Act ETF plumbing since its 2022 launch: daily holdings, intraday trading, 1099 tax reporting rather than a K-1.
Worth knowing
- The 0.88% fee sits far above the index giants in this cohort (BND, SPAB and SCHZ each run at 0.03%). Manager calls carry that whole load.
- Thinly traded and small next to the bond-ETF heavyweights, so the bid-ask spread is a real part of the cost of getting in and out.
- Active credit and duration positioning means the ride can look nothing like a plain aggregate-bond fund, in either direction.
SIO Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 31%
- UNITED STATES TREASURY NOTE/BOND
Sectors
- Health Care23.9%
- Industrials23.6%
- Financials22.8%
- Technology19.1%
- Energy10.7%
SIO 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 | SIO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.0% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.0% |
| 1 year | +1.7% |
| 3 years | +7.1% |
| 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 | SIO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.0% | |
| 2025 | +9.3% | |
| 2024 | +6.2% | |
| 2023 | +8.1% | |
| 2022 | −0.4% |
SIO in the news
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SIO Dividends
- 6.98%
- $1.75
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.12 |
SIO Risk
- 4.9%
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.
- 0.48
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.
- −7.6%
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.
- 0.84
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SIO Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
24 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.