Alliance Bernstein - AB Short Duration High Yield ETF
$35.17−0.18 (−0.52%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.40%
- Fund size
- $962M
- 1Y return
- +3.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.97%
- Holdings
- 562
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.35
- 52W range
The ETF.net SYFI Grade
Score 69 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 70Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category 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.AScore 72Category 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.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on SYFI
BA converted mutual fund that takes high yield short: average duration stays under four years, the bonds are picked globally rather than tracked, and the income lands monthly.
The Fund seeks the highest available income without taking what the Adviser views as undue principal risk. It is actively managed and normally invests at least 80% of assets in below-investment-grade debt securities and related derivatives, while maintaining average duration below four years.
Why people hold it
- Keeps average duration below four years, so rate swings move it less than long-dated bond funds, while the income still comes from below-investment-grade credit.sec.gov
- Actively managed and global: roughly 600 positions picked by AB's credit team, not whatever a benchmark index happens to hold that month.
- The 0.40% fee sits right at the median for high yield bond ETFs, unusual for an active mandate in a group ruled by index trackers.
- Not a startup strategy: it converted from an AB mutual fund in 2024 and kept the predecessor's objective and record. etf.com named it Best New US Fixed Income ETF.alliancebernstein.comsec.gov
Worth knowing
- Index rivals are far cheaper: SCYB, SPHY and USHY each charge under a tenth of a percent. The 0.40% here buys the active short-duration mandate instead.
- Short duration trims rate sensitivity, not credit risk: at least 80% of assets sit in below-investment-grade debt and related derivatives.sec.gov
- It has traded on an exchange only since 2024, a shorter market history than the long-running index funds it sits beside.alliancebernsteinholdinglp.gcs-web.com
SYFI Holdings
- Bonds
- 562
- 13%
- EUR261119
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States79.60%
- Canada4.14%
- United Kingdom3.68%
- Ireland2.50%
- Italy1.84%
- Cayman Islands1.63%
- France1.47%
- Luxembourg1.15%
- 3.99%
SYFI 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 | SYFI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.3% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +3.4% |
| 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 | SYFI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.3% | |
| 2025 | +7.2% | |
| 2024 | +5.0% |
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SYFI Dividends
- 5.97%
- $2.11
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.18 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.18 |
SYFI Risk
- 2.4%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −4.5%
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.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SYFI Cost
- The middle half of International High Yield Bond funds
- Median 0.46%
2 of the 13 International High Yield Bond funds charge less.