- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Bonds
- Address
- 702 King Farm Boulevard Rockville MD Singapore 20850
- IPO Date
- Oct 19, 2016
- Business
- Guggenheim Total Return Bond Fund (GIBRX) is an open-end mutual fund managed by Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC that seeks total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of debt securities. The fund allocates at least 80% of its assets to fixed-income instruments of varying maturities and credit qualities, including investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities, U.S. Treasury securities, government bonds, preferred stock, and convertible securities; its portfolio features significant exposure to U.S. bonds (approximately 82%), non-U.S. bonds (14%), cash equivalents, and structured credit sectors such as corporate bonds (30%), asset-backed securities (23%), and government securities (16%). Available in multiple share classes including R6 (GIBRX, inception October 19, 2016), Institutional (GIBIX, inception November 30, 2011), Class A (GIBAX), Class C (GIBCX), and Class P (GIBLX), the fund benchmarks against the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and is domiciled in the United States with operations targeted at U.S. investors through financial intermediaries.
The fund is overseen by a team led by Chief Investment Officer Anne Walsh (since November 2011), Fixed Income CIO Steven Brown (since April 2016), Portfolio Manager Adam Bloch (since April 2016), and Portfolio Manager Evan Serdensky (since January 2023), drawing on Guggenheim's extensive research resources in corporate credit, macro rates, and structured products.
In recent developments, the fund has maintained a contractual fee waiver through February 1, 2026, reducing the net expense ratio for the R6 class to 0.49% (adjusted 0.42%), and continues to emphasize overweight positions in higher-quality securitized credit including non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities and agency mortgage-backed securities (increased to about 20% in 2024); it received a 4-star Morningstar rating overall for the R6 class as of September 30, 2025, among intermediate core-plus bond funds.