SEC. File No. 811-23633
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
Registration Statement
Under
the Investment Company Act of 1940
Amendment No. 6
CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL FUND SERIES II
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
6455 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, California 92618-4518
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(213) 486-9200
Courtney R. Taylor
Capital Group Central Fund Series II
333 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, California 90071-1406
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Lea Anne Copenhefer
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
One Federal Street
Boston, MA 02110-1726
(Counsel for the Registrant)
Capital Group Registration Statement Part A August 1, 2025 |
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Class | M |
CCBFX |
Table of contents
Investment objective | 1 |
Fees and expenses of the fund | 1 |
Management | 2 |
Tax information | 2 |
Investment strategies and risks | 2 |
Management and organization | 10 |
Purchase and sale of shares | 12 |
How to sell shares | 13 |
Dividends and taxes | 15 |
Financial highlights | 16 |
This registration statement has been filed pursuant to Section 8(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”). However, shares of the fund are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act”), because the shares will be issued solely in private placement transactions that do not involve any “public offering” within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the 1933 Act. Investments in the fund may be made only by certain institutional investors, including investment companies and certain other investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. Shares of the fund are restricted securities and cannot be transferred or resold without registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption from registration under the 1933 Act. This registration statement does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any shares of the fund.
Investment objective The fund’s investment objective is to seek to provide maximum total return consistent with capital preservation and prudent risk management. While it has no present intention to do so, the fund’s board may change the fund’s investment objective without shareholder approval upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders. Shares of the fund are currently only available for investment by (a) other funds and investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates and (b) the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. Shares of the fund are not available to the public.
Fees and expenses of the fund This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund.
Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment) | |
Share class: | M |
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price) | none |
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a percentage of the amount redeemed) | none |
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on reinvested dividends | none |
Redemption or exchange fees | none |
Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment) | |
Share class: | M |
Management fees | none |
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees | none |
Other expenses | 0.0021% |
Total annual fund operating expenses | 0.0021 |
Portfolio turnover The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses, affect the fund’s investment results. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 205% of the average value of its portfolio.
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Management
Investment
adviser Capital Research and Management Company
Portfolio managers The individuals primarily
responsible for the portfolio management of the fund are:
Portfolio manager/ Fund title (if applicable) |
Portfolio manager in this fund since: |
Primary title with investment adviser |
Robert G. Caldwell | 2021 | Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors |
Karen Choi President | 2021 | Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors |
Scott Sykes | 2021 | Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors |
Tax information Dividends and capital gain distributions you receive from the fund are subject to federal income taxes and may also be subject to state and local taxes, unless you are tax-exempt or your account is tax-favored (in which case you may be taxed later, upon withdrawal of your investment from such account).
Investment strategies and risks Normally, at least 80% of the fund’s assets will be invested in corporate debt securities, which may be represented by derivatives (calculated at market value or, if applicable, fair value). This policy is subject to change only upon 60 days’ prior written notice to shareholders. In addition, under normal market conditions, the fund invests all of its assets in debt instruments rated Baa3 or better or BBB- or better by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the fund’s investment adviser or in debt instruments that are unrated but determined at the time of purchase to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser. However, the fund may invest in debt securities guaranteed or sponsored by the U.S. government, as well as debt issued by government-sponsored entities and federal agencies and instrumentalities that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, without regard to the quality rating assigned to the U.S. government by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization. Additionally, the fund may invest in money market instruments, cash and cash equivalents. The fund may also invest in derivatives instruments (but excluding any derivatives instruments that are rated below Baa3 or BBB- by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the fund's investment adviser or are unrated but determined at the time of purchase to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser). Though investment decisions regarding the fund’s portfolio may be informed by investment themes on a range of macroeconomic factors, the fund may invest in debt securities of any maturity or duration. Duration is a measure used to determine the sensitivity of a security’s price to changes in interest rates. For example, the price of a security with a duration of five years would be expected to fall approximately 5% if interest rates rose by one percentage point. The longer a security’s duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates.
The fund may invest significantly in debt securities tied economically to countries outside the United States, including developing countries. All securities held by the fund will be denominated in U.S. dollars.
The fund may invest in futures contracts and swaps, which are types of derivatives. A derivative is a financial contract, the value of which is based on the value of an underlying financial asset (such as a stock, bond or currency), a reference rate or a market index. For example, the fund may invest in futures contracts and interest rate swaps in order to seek to manage the fund’s sensitivity to interest rates, and in credit default swap indices, or
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CDSI, in order to assume exposure to a diversified portfolio of credits or to hedge against existing credit risks.
The fund may also hold cash or cash equivalents, including commercial paper and short-term securities issued by the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities. The percentage of the fund invested in such holdings varies and depends on various factors, including market conditions and purchases and redemptions of fund shares. The investment adviser may determine that it is appropriate to invest a substantial portion of the fund’s assets in such instruments in response to certain circumstances, such as periods of market turmoil. For temporary defensive purposes, the fund may invest without limitation in such instruments. A larger percentage of such holdings could moderate the fund’s investment results in a period of rising market prices. Alternatively, a larger percentage of such holdings could reduce the magnitude of the fund’s loss in a period of falling market prices and provide liquidity to make additional investments or to meet redemptions.
The fund’s daily cash balance may be invested in one or more money market or similar funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates (“Central Funds”). Shares of Central Funds are not offered to the public and are only purchased by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates and other funds, investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. Central Funds do not charge management fees. As a result, the fund does not bear additional management fees when investing in Central Funds, but the fund does bear its proportionate share of Central Fund expenses. The investment results of the portions of the fund’s assets invested in the Central Funds will be based upon the investment results of the Central Funds.
The fund relies on the professional judgment of its investment adviser to make decisions about the fund’s portfolio investments. The basic investment philosophy of the investment adviser is to seek to invest in attractively priced securities that, in its opinion, represent good, long-term investment opportunities. The investment adviser believes that an important way to accomplish this is through fundamental research, which may include analysis of credit quality, general economic conditions and various quantitative measures and, in the case of corporate obligations, meeting with company executives and employees, suppliers, customers and competitors. Securities may be sold when the investment adviser believes that they no longer represent relatively attractive investment opportunities.
The investment adviser may consider environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors that, depending on the facts and circumstances, are material to the value of an issuer or instrument. ESG factors may include, but are not limited to, environmental issues (e.g., water use, emission levels, waste, environmental remediation), social issues (e.g., human capital, health and safety, changing customer behavior) or governance issues (e.g., board composition, executive compensation, shareholder dilution).
The following are principal risks associated with investing in the fund. You may lose money by investing in the fund. The likelihood of loss may be greater if you invest for a shorter period of time.
Market conditions — The prices of, and the income generated by, the securities held by the fund may decline – sometimes rapidly or unpredictably – due to various factors, including events or conditions affecting the general economy or particular industries or companies; overall market changes; local, regional or global political, social or economic
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instability; governmental, governmental agency or central bank responses to economic conditions; levels of public debt and deficits; changes in inflation rates; and currency exchange rate, interest rate and commodity price fluctuations.
Economies and financial markets throughout the world are highly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, wars, terrorism, cybersecurity events, natural disasters, public health emergencies (such as the spread of infectious disease), bank failures and other circumstances in one country or region, including actions taken by governmental or quasi-governmental authorities in response to any of the foregoing, could have impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected by developments in other countries and regions.
Issuer risks — The prices of, and the income generated by, securities held by the fund may decline in response to various factors directly related to the issuers of such securities, including reduced demand for an issuer’s goods or services, poor management performance, major litigation, investigations or other controversies related to the issuer, changes in the issuer’s financial condition or credit rating, changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or its competitive environment and strategic initiatives such as mergers, acquisitions or dispositions and the market response to any such initiatives. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund’s portfolio managers invest in issuers based on their level of investment conviction. At times, the fund may invest more significantly in a single issuer, which could increase the risk of loss arising from the factors described above.
Investing in debt instruments — The prices of, and the income generated by, bonds and other debt securities held by the fund may be affected by factors such as the interest rates, maturities and credit quality of these securities.
Rising interest rates will generally cause the prices of bonds and other debt securities to fall. Also, when interest rates rise, issuers of debt securities that may be prepaid at any time, such as mortgage- or other asset-backed securities, are less likely to refinance existing debt securities, causing the average life of such securities to extend. A general change in interest rates may cause investors to sell debt securities on a large scale, which could also adversely affect the price and liquidity of debt securities and could also result in increased redemptions from the fund. Falling interest rates may cause an issuer to redeem, call or refinance a debt security before its stated maturity, which may result in the fund having to reinvest the proceeds in lower yielding securities. Longer maturity debt securities generally have greater sensitivity to changes in interest rates and may be subject to greater price fluctuations than shorter maturity debt securities.
Bonds and other debt securities are also subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that the credit strength of an issuer or guarantor will weaken or be perceived to be weaker, and/or an issuer of a debt security will fail to make timely payments of principal or interest and the security will go into default. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could cause the value of the fund’s shares to decrease. Lower quality debt
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securities generally have higher rates of interest and may be subject to greater price fluctuations than higher quality debt securities. Credit risk is gauged, in part, by the credit ratings of the debt securities in which the fund invests. However, ratings are only the opinions of the rating agencies issuing them and are not guarantees as to credit quality or an evaluation of market risk. The fund’s investment adviser relies on its own credit analysts to research issuers and issues in assessing credit and default risks.
Investing in securities backed by the U.S. government — U.S. government securities are subject to market risk, interest rate risk and credit risk. Securities backed by the U.S. Treasury or the full faith and credit of the U.S. government are guaranteed only as to the timely payment of interest and principal when held to maturity. Accordingly, the current market values for these securities will fluctuate with changes in interest rates and the credit rating of the U.S. government. Notwithstanding that these securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, circumstances could arise that would prevent or delay the payment of interest or principal on these securities, which could adversely affect their value and cause the fund to suffer losses. Such an event could lead to significant disruptions in U.S. and global markets.
Securities issued by U.S. government-sponsored entities and federal agencies and instrumentalities that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government.
Investing in derivatives — The use of derivatives involves a variety of risks, which may be different from, or greater than, the risks associated with investing in traditional securities, such as stocks and bonds. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with, and may be more sensitive to market events than, the underlying asset, rate or index, and a derivative instrument may cause the fund to lose significantly more than its initial investment. Derivatives may be difficult to value, difficult for the fund to buy or sell at an opportune time or price and difficult, or even impossible, to terminate or otherwise offset. The fund’s use of derivatives may result in losses to the fund, and investing in derivatives may reduce the fund’s returns and increase the fund’s price volatility. The fund’s counterparty to a derivative transaction (including, if applicable, the fund’s clearing broker, the derivatives exchange or the clearinghouse) may be unable or unwilling to honor its financial obligations in respect of the transaction. In certain cases, the fund may be hindered or delayed in exercising remedies against or closing out derivative instruments with a counterparty, which may result in additional losses. Derivatives are also subject to operational risk (such as documentation issues, settlement issues and systems failures) and legal risk (such as insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, and issues with the legality or enforceability of a contract).
Liquidity risk — Certain fund holdings may be or may become difficult or impossible to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. Liquidity may be impacted by the lack of an active market for a holding, legal or contractual restrictions on resale, or the reduced number and capacity of market participants to make a market in such holding. Market prices for less liquid or illiquid holdings may be volatile or difficult to determine, and reduced liquidity may have an adverse impact on the market price of such holdings. Additionally, the sale of less liquid or illiquid holdings may involve substantial delays (including delays in settlement) and additional costs and the fund may be unable to sell such holdings when necessary to meet its liquidity needs or to try to limit losses, or may be forced to sell at a loss.
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Investing outside the United States — Securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States or with significant operations or revenues outside the United States, and securities tied economically to countries outside the United States, may lose value because of adverse political, social, economic or market developments (including social instability, regional conflicts, terrorism and war) in the countries or regions in which the issuers are domiciled, operate or generate revenue or to which the securities are tied economically. These securities may also lose value due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and/or currencies of other countries. Issuers of these securities may be more susceptible to actions of foreign governments, such as nationalization, currency blockage or the imposition of price controls, sanctions, or punitive taxes, each of which could adversely impact the value of these securities. Securities markets in certain countries may be more volatile and/or less liquid than those in the United States. Investments outside the United States may also be subject to different regulatory, legal, accounting, auditing, financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements, and may be more difficult to value, than those in the United States. In addition, the value of investments outside the United States may be reduced by foreign taxes, including foreign withholding taxes on interest and dividends. Further, there may be increased risks of delayed settlement of securities purchased or sold by the fund, which could impact the liquidity of the fund’s portfolio. The risks of investing outside the United States may be heightened in connection with investments in emerging markets.
Investing in emerging markets — Investing in emerging markets may involve risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in the securities markets of developed countries. For instance, emerging market countries tend to have less developed political, economic and legal systems than those in developed countries. Accordingly, the governments of these countries may be less stable and more likely to intervene in the market economy, for example, by imposing capital controls, nationalizing a company or industry, placing restrictions on foreign ownership and on withdrawing sale proceeds of securities from the country, and/or imposing punitive taxes that could adversely affect the prices of securities. Information regarding issuers in emerging markets may be limited, incomplete or inaccurate, and such issuers may not be subject to regulatory, accounting, auditing, and financial reporting and recordkeeping standards comparable to those to which issuers in more developed markets are subject. The fund’s rights with respect to its investments in emerging markets, if any, will generally be governed by local law, which may make it difficult or impossible for the fund to pursue legal remedies or to obtain and enforce judgments in local courts. In addition, the economies of these countries may be dependent on relatively few industries, may have limited access to capital and may be more susceptible to changes in local and global trade conditions and downturns in the world economy. Securities markets in these countries can also be relatively small and have substantially lower trading volumes. As a result, securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid, more vulnerable to market manipulation, and more difficult to value, than securities issued in countries with more developed economies and/or markets. Less certainty with respect to security valuations may lead to additional challenges and risks in calculating the fund’s net asset value. Additionally, emerging markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by banks, agents and depositories that are less established than those in developed countries.
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Management — The investment adviser to the fund actively manages the fund’s investments. Consequently, the fund is subject to the risk that the methods and analyses, including models, tools and data, employed by the investment adviser in this process may be flawed or incorrect and may not produce the desired results. This could cause the fund to lose value or its investment results to lag relevant benchmarks or other funds with similar objectives.
The following are additional risks associated with investing in the fund.
Interest rate risk — The values and liquidity of the securities held by the fund may be affected by changing interest rates. For example, the values of these securities may decline when interest rates rise and increase when interest rates fall. Longer maturity debt securities generally have greater sensitivity to changes in interest rates and may be subject to greater price fluctuations than shorter maturity debt securities. The fund may invest in variable and floating rate securities. When the fund holds variable or floating rate securities, a decrease in market interest rates will adversely affect the income received from such securities and the net asset value of the fund’s shares. Although the values of such securities are generally less sensitive to interest rate changes than those of other debt securities, the value of variable and floating rate securities may decline if their interest rates do not rise as quickly, or as much, as market interest rates. Conversely, floating rate securities will not generally increase in value if interest rates decline. During periods of extremely low short-term interest rates, the fund may not be able to maintain a positive yield or total return and, in relatively low interest rate environments, there are heightened risks associated with rising interest rates.
Investing in futures contracts — In addition to the risks generally associated with investing in derivative instruments, futures contracts are subject to the creditworthiness of the clearing organizations, exchanges and futures commission merchants with which the fund transacts. Additionally, although futures require only a small initial investment in the form of a deposit of initial margin, the amount of a potential loss on a futures contract could greatly exceed the initial amount invested. While futures contracts are generally liquid instruments, under certain market conditions futures may be deemed to be illiquid. For example, the fund may be temporarily prohibited from closing out its position in a futures contract if intraday price change limits or limits on trading volume imposed by the applicable futures exchange are triggered. If the fund is unable to close out a position on a futures contract, the fund would remain subject to the risk of adverse price movements until the fund is able to close out the futures position. The ability of the fund to successfully utilize futures contracts may depend in part upon the ability of the fund’s investment adviser to accurately forecast interest rates and other economic factors and to assess and predict the impact of such economic factors on the futures in which the fund invests. If the investment adviser incorrectly forecasts economic developments or incorrectly predicts the impact of such developments on the futures in which it invests, the fund could suffer losses.
Investing in swaps — Swaps, including interest rate swaps and credit default swap indices, or CDSIs, are subject to many of the risks generally associated with investing in derivative instruments. Additionally, although swaps require no initial investment or only a small initial investment in the form of a deposit of initial margin, the amount of a potential loss on a swap could greatly exceed the initial amount invested. The use of swaps involves the risk that the investment adviser will not accurately predict anticipated changes in interest rates or other economic factors, which may result in losses to the fund. If the fund
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enters into a bilaterally negotiated swap, the counterparty may fail to perform in accordance with the terms of the swap. If a counterparty defaults on its obligations under a swap, the fund may lose any amount it expected to receive from the counterparty, potentially including amounts in excess of the fund’s initial investment. Certain swaps are subject to mandatory central clearing or may be eligible for voluntary central clearing. Although clearing interposes a central clearinghouse as the ultimate counterparty to each participant’s swap, central clearing will not eliminate (but may decrease) counterparty risk relative to uncleared bilateral swaps. Some swaps, such as CDSIs, may be dependent on both the individual credit of the fund’s counterparty and on the credit of one or more issuers of any underlying assets. If the fund does not correctly evaluate the creditworthiness of its counterparty and, where applicable, of issuers of any underlying reference assets, the fund’s investment in a swap may result in losses to the fund.
Portfolio turnover — The fund may engage in frequent and active trading of its portfolio securities. Higher portfolio turnover may involve correspondingly greater transaction costs in the form of dealer spreads, brokerage commissions and other transaction costs on the sale of securities and on reinvestment in other securities. The sale of portfolio securities may also result in the realization of net capital gains, which are taxable when distributed to shareholders, unless the shareholder is exempt from taxation or his or her account is tax-favored. These costs and tax effects may adversely affect the fund’s returns to shareholders. The fund’s portfolio turnover rate may vary from year to year, as well as within a year.
Exposure to country, region, industry or sector — Subject to the fund’s investment limitations, the fund may have significant exposure to a particular country, region, industry or sector. Such exposure may cause the fund to be more impacted by risks relating to and developments affecting the country, region, industry or sector, and thus its net asset value may be more volatile, than a fund without such levels of exposure. For example, if the fund has significant exposure in a particular country, then social, economic, regulatory or other issues that negatively affect that country may have a greater impact on the fund than on a fund that is more geographically diversified.
Large shareholder transactions risk — The fund may experience adverse effects when shareholders, including other funds or accounts advised by the investment adviser, purchase or redeem, individually or in the aggregate, large amounts of shares relative to the size of the fund. For example, when the investment adviser changes allocations in other funds and accounts it manages, such changes may result in shareholder transactions in the fund that are large relative to the size of the fund. Such large shareholder redemptions may cause the fund to sell portfolio securities at times when it would not otherwise do so, which may negatively impact the fund’s net asset value and liquidity. Similarly, large fund share purchases may adversely affect the fund’s performance to the extent that the fund is delayed in investing new cash and is required to maintain a larger cash position than it ordinarily would. These transactions may also accelerate the realization of taxable income to shareholders if such sales of investments resulted in gains, and may also increase transaction costs. In addition, a large redemption could result in the fund’s current expenses being allocated over a smaller asset base, leading to an increase in the fund’s expense ratio. These risks are heightened when the fund is small.
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Cybersecurity breaches — The fund may be subject to operational and information security risks through breaches in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity breaches can result from deliberate attacks or unintentional events, including “ransomware” attacks, the injection of computer viruses or malicious software code, the use of vulnerabilities in code to gain unauthorized access to digital information systems, networks or devices, or external attacks such as denial-of-service attacks on the investment adviser’s or an affiliate’s website that could render the fund’s network services unavailable to intended end-users. These breaches may, among other things, lead to the unauthorized release of confidential information, misuse of the fund’s assets or sensitive information, the disruption of the fund’s operational capacity, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business, or the destruction of the fund’s physical infrastructure, equipment or operating systems. These events could cause the fund to violate applicable privacy and other laws and could subject the fund to reputational damage, additional costs associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss. The fund may also be subject to additional risks if its third-party service providers, such as the fund’s investment adviser, transfer agent, custodian, administrators and other financial intermediaries, experience similar cybersecurity breaches and potential outcomes. Cybersecurity risks may also impact issuers of securities in which the fund invests, which may cause the fund’s investments in such issuers to lose value.
In addition to the investment strategies described above, the fund has other investment practices that are described in Part B of the fund’s registration statement, which includes a description of other risks related to the fund’s investment strategies and other investment practices. The fund’s investment results will depend on the ability of the fund’s investment adviser to navigate the risks discussed above as well as those described in Part B of the fund’s registration statement.
Portfolio holdings A description of the fund’s policies and procedures regarding disclosure of information about its portfolio holdings is available in Part B of the fund’s registration statement.
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Management and organization
Investment adviser Capital Research and Management Company, an experienced investment management organization founded in 1931, serves as the investment adviser to the fund and other funds, including the American Funds. Capital Research and Management Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, Inc. and is located at 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California 90071. Capital Research and Management Company manages the investment portfolio and business affairs of the fund. The fund does not pay any management fee to its investment adviser. A more detailed description of the Investment Advisory and Service Agreement between the fund and the investment adviser is included in Part B of the fund’s registration statement. A discussion regarding the basis for the approval of the fund’s Investment Advisory and Service Agreement by the fund’s board of trustees is contained in the fund’s Form N-CSR for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025.
Capital Research and Management Company manages equity assets through three equity investment divisions and fixed income assets through its fixed income investment division, Capital Fixed Income Investors. The three equity investment divisions — Capital International Investors, Capital Research Global Investors and Capital World Investors — make investment decisions independently of one another.
The equity investment divisions may, in the future, be incorporated as wholly owned subsidiaries of Capital Research and Management Company. In that event, Capital Research and Management Company would continue to be the investment adviser, and day-to-day investment management of equity assets would continue to be carried out through one or more of these subsidiaries. Although not currently contemplated, Capital Research and Management Company could incorporate its fixed income investment division in the future and engage it to provide day-to-day investment management of fixed income assets. Capital Research and Management Company and each of the funds it advises have received an exemptive order from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that allows Capital Research and Management Company to use, upon approval of the fund’s board, its management subsidiaries and affiliates to provide day-to-day investment management services to the fund, including making changes to the management subsidiaries and affiliates providing such services. There is no assurance that Capital Research and Management Company will incorporate its investment divisions or exercise any authority granted to it under the exemptive order.
Fund expenses The fund bears expenses incurred in connection with the day-to-day fund operations, including, but not limited, to expenses associated with the audit and custodian services provided to the fund.
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The Capital SystemTM Capital Research and Management Company uses a system of multiple portfolio managers in managing mutual fund assets. Under this approach, the portfolio of a fund is divided into segments managed by individual managers. In addition, Capital Research and Management Company’s investment analysts may make investment decisions with respect to a portion of a fund’s portfolio. Investment decisions are subject to a fund’s objective(s), policies and restrictions and the oversight of the appropriate investment-related committees of Capital Research and Management Company and its investment divisions.
Certain senior members of Capital Fixed Income Investors, the investment adviser’s fixed income investment division, serve on the Portfolio Strategy Group. The group utilizes a research-driven process with input from the investment adviser’s analysts, portfolio managers and economists to define investment themes on a range of macroeconomic factors, including duration, yield curve and sector allocation. The investment decisions made by the fund’s portfolio managers are informed by the investment themes discussed by the group.
The table below shows the investment experience and role in management of the fund for each of the fund’s primary portfolio managers.
Portfolio manager | Investment experience |
Portfolio manager in this fund since: |
Role
in management of the fund |
Robert G. Caldwell | Investment professional since 2001 (all with Capital Research and Management Company or affiliate) | 2021 | Serves as a fixed income portfolio manager |
Karen Choi | Investment professional since 1996 (with Capital Research and Management Company or affiliate since 2007) | 2021 | Serves as a fixed income portfolio manager |
Scott Sykes | Investment professional since 2002 (with Capital Research and Management Company or affiliate since 2005) | 2021 | Serves as a fixed income portfolio manager |
Information regarding the portfolio managers’ compensation, their ownership of securities in the fund and other accounts they manage is available in Part B of the fund’s registration statement.
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Purchase and sale of shares
Purchase of Class M shares Class M shares are available for purchase only by (a) other funds and investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates and (b) the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. Shares of the fund are not available to the public. The fund may accept securities in-kind in exchange for shares of the fund in accordance with the fund’s policy and procedures relating to in-kind purchase transactions.
Valuing shares The net asset value of each share class of the fund is the value of a single share of that class. The net asset value per share is calculated once daily as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, normally 4 p.m. New York time, each day the New York Stock Exchange is open. If the New York Stock Exchange makes a scheduled (e.g., the day after Thanksgiving) or an unscheduled close prior to 4 p.m. New York time, the net asset value of the fund will be determined at approximately the time the New York Stock Exchange closes on that day. If on such a day market quotations and prices from third-party pricing services are not based as of the time of the early close of the New York Stock Exchange but are as of a later time (up to approximately 4 p.m. New York time), for example because the market remains open after the close of the New York Stock Exchange, those later market quotations and prices will be used in determining the fund’s net asset value.
Equity securities are valued primarily on the basis of market quotations, and debt securities are valued primarily on the basis of prices from third-party pricing services due to the lack of market quotations. Futures contracts are valued primarily on the basis of settlement prices. The fund’s portfolio investments are valued in accordance with procedures for making fair value determinations if market quotations are not readily available, including procedures to determine the representativeness of third-party vendor prices, or in the event market quotations or third-party vendor prices are not considered reliable. For example, if events occur between the close of markets outside the United States and the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange that, in the opinion of the investment adviser, materially affect the value of any of the fund’s equity securities that trade principally in those international markets, those securities will be valued in accordance with fair value procedures. Similarly, fair value procedures will be employed if an issuer defaults on its debt securities and there is no market for its securities. Use of these procedures is intended to result in more appropriate net asset values and, where applicable, to reduce potential arbitrage opportunities otherwise available to short-term investors.
Because the fund may hold securities that are listed primarily on foreign exchanges that trade on weekends or days when the fund does not price its shares, the values of securities held in the fund may change on days when you will not be able to purchase or redeem fund shares.
Your shares will be purchased at the net asset value or sold at the net asset value next determined after American Funds Service Company receives your request, provided that your request contains all information and legal documentation necessary to process the transaction. Orders in good order received after the New York Stock Exchange closes (scheduled or unscheduled) will be processed at the net asset value (plus any applicable sales charge) calculated on the following business day.
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Distributor Capital Client Group, Inc. serves as the distributor (“distributor”) of the fund shares. The distributor does not receive any compensation from the fund for the distribution services.
How to sell shares
You may sell (redeem) shares by notifying American Funds Services Company.
The fund typically expects to remit redemption proceeds one business day following receipt and acceptance of a redemption order. However, payment may take longer than one business day and may take up to seven days as generally permitted by the 1940 Act. Under the 1940 Act, the fund may be permitted to pay redemption proceeds beyond seven days under certain limited circumstances.
Under normal conditions, the fund typically expects to meet shareholder redemptions by monitoring the fund’s portfolio and redemption activities and by regularly holding a reserve of highly liquid assets, such as cash or cash equivalents. The fund may use additional methods to meet shareholder redemptions, if they become necessary. These methods may include, but are not limited to, the sale of portfolio assets, the use of overdraft protection afforded by the fund’s custodian bank, borrowing from a line of credit or from other funds advised by the investment adviser or its affiliates, and making payment with fund securities or other fund assets rather than in cash (as further discussed in the following paragraph).
Although payment of redemptions normally will be in cash, the fund’s declaration of trust permits payment of the redemption price wholly or partly with portfolio securities or other fund assets under conditions and circumstances determined by the fund’s board of trustees. On the same redemption date, some shareholders may be paid in whole or in part in securities (which may differ among those shareholders), while other shareholders may be paid entirely in cash. In general, in-kind redemptions to affiliated shareholders will as closely as practicable represent the affiliated shareholder’s pro rata share of the fund’s securities, subject to certain exceptions. Securities distributed in-kind to unaffiliated shareholders will be selected by the investment adviser in a manner the investment adviser deems to be fair and reasonable to the fund’s shareholders. The disposal of the securities received in-kind may be subject to brokerage costs and, until sold, such securities remain subject to market risk and liquidity risk, including the risk that such securities are or become difficult to sell. If the fund pays your redemption with illiquid or less liquid securities, you will bear the risk of not being able to sell such securities.
Shares of the fund are not transferrable.
Frequent trading of fund shares The fund and the distributor reserve the right to reject any purchase order for any reason. Frequent trading of fund shares may lead to increased costs to the fund and less efficient management of the fund’s portfolio, potentially resulting in dilution of the value of the shares held by long-term shareholders. The investment adviser anticipates that fund shares may be purchased and sold frequently. Accordingly, the board has not adopted policies and procedures designed to detect and deter excessive trading of fund shares.
Derivative actions The fund’s declaration of trust provides a process for the bringing of derivative actions by shareholders. No shareholder may maintain a derivative action on behalf of the fund unless holders of at least 20% of the outstanding shares of the fund
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join in bringing such action. Prior to bringing a derivative action, a demand by the complaining shareholder must first be made on the trustees. Following receipt of the demand, the trustees must be afforded a reasonable amount of time to consider and investigate the demand. The trustees will be entitled to retain counsel or other advisers in considering the merits of the request and, the trustees may require an undertaking by the shareholders making such request to reimburse the fund for the expense of any such advisers in the event that the trustees determine not to bring such action. The fund’s declaration of trust does not limit claims under federal securities laws that cannot be so limited.
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Dividends and taxes
Dividends and distributions The fund declares daily dividends from net investment income and distributes the accrued dividends, which may fluctuate, to you each month. Generally, dividends begin accruing on the day payment for shares is received by the fund or American Funds Service Company.
Capital gains, if any, are usually distributed in December. When a capital gain is distributed, the net asset value per share is reduced by the amount of the payment.
Dividends declared and paid by the fund will be automatically reinvested to purchase additional shares of this fund.
Taxes on dividends and distributions For federal tax purposes, dividends and distributions of short-term capital gains are taxable as ordinary income. If you are an individual and meet certain holding period requirements with respect to your fund shares, you may be eligible for reduced tax rates on “qualified dividend income,” if any, distributed by the fund to you. The fund’s distributions of net long-term capital gains are taxable as long-term capital gains. Any dividends or capital gain distributions you receive from the fund will normally be taxable to you when made, regardless of whether you reinvest dividends or capital gain distributions or receive them in cash.
Taxes on transactions Your redemptions, including exchanges, may result in a capital gain or loss for federal tax purposes. A capital gain or loss on your investment is the difference between the cost of your shares, including any sales charges, and the amount you receive when you sell them.
Exchanges within a tax-favored retirement plan account will not result in a capital gain or loss for federal or state income tax purposes. With limited exceptions, distributions from a retirement plan account are taxable as ordinary income.
Shareholder fees Fees and expenses borne directly by the fund normally have the effect of reducing a shareholder’s taxable income on distributions.
Please see your tax advisor for more information.
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Financial highlights The Financial Highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s results for the past five fiscal years (or, if shorter, the period of operations). Certain information reflects financial results for a single share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned or lost on an investment in the fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and capital gain distributions). The information in the Financial Highlights table has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose current report, along with the fund’s financial statements, is included in the Part B of the registration statement, which is available upon request.
Income (loss) from investment operations1 |
Dividends and distributions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Year ended | Net asset value, beginning of year |
Net investment income (loss) |
Net gains (losses) on securities (both realized and unrealized) |
Total from investment operations |
Dividends (from net investment income) |
Distributions (from capital gains) |
Total dividends and distributions |
Net asset value, end of year |
Total return | Net assets, end of year (in millions) |
Ratio of expenses to average net assets2 |
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5/31/2025 | $8.24 | $.40 | $.07 | $.47 | $(.39 | ) | $— | $(.39 | ) | $8.32 | 5.77 | % | $10,593 | — | %3 | 4.73 | % | |||||||
5/31/2024 | 8.29 | .36 | (.06 | ) | .30 | (.35 | ) | — | (.35 | ) | 8.24 | 3.74 | 11,049 | — | 3 | 4.42 | ||||||||
5/31/2023 | 8.69 | .29 | (.40 | ) | (.11 | ) | (.29 | ) | — | (.29 | ) | 8.29 | (1.23 | ) | 11,514 | — | 3 | 3.54 | ||||||
5/31/2022 | 10.00 | .25 | (1.23 | ) | (.98 | ) | (.24 | ) | (.09 | ) | (.33 | ) | 8.69 | (10.08 | ) | 14,294 | — | 3 | 2.57 | |||||
5/31/20214, 5 | 10.00 | — | 6 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 10.00 | .00 | — | 7 | — | — | 3, 8 |
Year ended May 31, | |||||
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 4,5 | |
Portfolio turnover rate for all share classes9 | 205% | 151% | 132% | 94% | —%10 |
1 Based on average shares outstanding.
2 Ratios do not include expenses of any Central Funds. The fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any Central Funds.
3 Amount less than .01%.
4 Based on operations for a period that is less than a full year.
5 Class M shares began investment operations on April 23, 2021.
6 Amount less than $.01.
7 Amount less than $1 million.
8 Not annualized.
9 Rates do not include the fund’s portfolio activity with respect to any Central Funds.
10 There was no turnover.
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MFGEPRX-137-0825 Litho in USA CGD/AFD/10691 Investment Company File No. 811-23633 |
Capital Group Central Fund Series II
(Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund)
Part B
Registration Statement
August 1, 2025
This document is not a prospectus but Part B of the registration statement of Capital Group Central Fund Series II (Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund) (the “fund”) which should be read in conjunction with Part A of the fund’s registration statement dated August 1, 2025. You may obtain Part A and Part B of the registration statement by calling American Funds Service Company® at (800) 421-4225 or by writing to the fund at the following address:
Capital Group Central Fund Series II
(Capital
Group Central Corporate Bond Fund)
Attention: Secretary
6455 Irvine
Center Drive
Irvine, California 92618
Class M | CCBFX |
Table of Contents
Item | Page no. |
Certain investment limitations and guidelines | 2 |
Description of certain securities, investment techniques and risks | 3 |
Fund policies | 30 |
Management of the fund | 32 |
Execution of portfolio transactions | 51 |
Disclosure of portfolio holdings | 55 |
Price of shares | 57 |
Taxes and distributions | 59 |
Purchase and exchange of shares | 62 |
Selling shares | 63 |
Shareholder account services and privileges | 64 |
General information | 65 |
Appendix | 68 |
Investment
portfolio
Financial statements
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Certain investment limitations and guidelines
The following limitations and guidelines are considered at the time of purchase, under normal circumstances, and are based on a percentage of the fund’s net assets unless otherwise noted. This summary is not intended to reflect all of the fund’s investment limitations.
· The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in corporate debt securities. For purposes of this investment guideline, corporate debt securities may be represented by derivative instruments.
· Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest 100% of its assets in (i) debt instruments (including bonds, mortgage- and other asset-backed securities) rated Baa3 or better or BBB- or better by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the fund’s investment adviser or unrated but determined to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser at time of purchase; (ii) debt securities guaranteed or sponsored by the U.S. government without regard to the quality rating assigned to the U.S. government by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization; (iii) cash and cash equivalents (including shares of money market or similar funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates); and (iv) derivatives instruments (but excluding any derivatives instruments that are rated below Baa3 or BBB- by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the fund's investment adviser or are unrated but determined at the time of purchase to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser).
· The fund may invest significantly in debt securities tied economically to countries outside the United States, including developing countries. All securities held by the fund will be denominated in U.S. dollars.
· The fund currently intends to consider the ratings from Moody’s Investors Service, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings. If agency ratings of a security differ, the security will be considered to have received the highest of these ratings, consistent with the fund’s investment policies.
· For purposes of determining whether an investment is made in a particular country or geographic region, the fund’s investment adviser will generally look to the domicile of the issuer in the case of equity securities or to the country to which the security is tied economically in the case of debt securities. In doing so, the fund’s investment adviser will generally look to the determination of MSCI Inc. (MSCI) for equity securities and Bloomberg for debt securities. In certain limited circumstances (including when relevant data is unavailable or the nature of a holding warrants special considerations), the adviser may also take into account additional factors, as applicable, including where the issuer’s securities are listed; where the issuer is legally organized, maintains principal corporate offices, conducts its principal operations, generates revenues and/or has credit risk exposure; and the source of guarantees, if any, of such securities.
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The fund may experience difficulty liquidating certain portfolio securities during significant market declines or periods of heavy redemptions.
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Description of certain securities, investment techniques and risks
The descriptions below are intended to supplement the material in Part A of the fund’s registration statement under “Investment strategies and risks.”
Market conditions – The value of, and the income generated by, the securities in which the fund invests may decline, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably, due to factors affecting certain issuers, particular industries or sectors, or the overall markets. Rapid or unexpected changes in market conditions could cause the fund to liquidate holdings at inopportune times or at a loss or depressed value. The value of a particular holding may decrease due to developments related to that issuer, but also due to general market conditions, including real or perceived economic developments such as changes in interest rates, credit quality, inflation, or currency rates or generally adverse investor sentiment. The value of a holding may also decline due to factors that negatively affect a particular industry or sector, such as labor shortages, increased production costs, or competitive conditions.
Global economies and financial markets are highly interconnected, and conditions and events in one country, region or financial market may adversely impact issuers in a different country, region or financial market. Furthermore, local, regional and global events such as war, acts of terrorism, trading and tariff arrangements, social unrest, natural disasters, the spread of infectious illness or other public health threats, or bank failures could also adversely impact issuers, markets and economies, including in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. The fund could be negatively impacted if the value of a portfolio holding were harmed by such conditions or events.
Significant market disruptions, such as those caused by pandemics, natural or environmental disasters, war, acts of terrorism, bank failures or other events, can adversely affect local and global markets and normal market operations. Market disruptions may exacerbate political, social, and economic risks. Additionally, market disruptions may result in increased market volatility; regulatory trading halts; closure of domestic or foreign exchanges, markets, or governments; or market participants operating pursuant to business continuity plans for indeterminate periods of time. Such events can be highly disruptive to economies and markets and significantly impact individual companies, sectors, industries, markets, currencies, interest and inflation rates, credit ratings, investor sentiment, and other factors affecting the value of the fund’s investments and operation of the fund. These events could disrupt businesses that are integral to the fund’s operations or impair the ability of employees of fund service providers to perform essential tasks on behalf of the fund.
Governmental and quasi-governmental authorities may take a number of actions designed to support local and global economies and the financial markets in response to economic disruptions. Such actions may include a variety of significant fiscal and monetary policy changes, including, for example, direct capital infusions into companies, new monetary programs and significantly lower interest rates. These actions have resulted in significant expansion of public debt and may result in greater market risk. Additionally, an unexpected or quick reversal of these policies, or the ineffectiveness of these policies, could negatively impact overall investor sentiment and further increase volatility in securities markets.
Debt instruments — Debt securities, also known as “fixed income securities,” are used by issuers to borrow money. Bonds, notes, debentures, asset-backed securities (including those backed by mortgages), and loan participations and assignments are common types of debt securities. Generally, issuers pay investors periodic interest and repay the amount borrowed either periodically during the life of the security and/or at maturity. Some debt securities, such as zero coupon bonds, do not pay current interest, but are purchased at a discount from their face values and their values accrete over time to face value at maturity. Some debt securities bear interest at rates that are not fixed, but that vary with changes in specified market rates or indices. The market prices of debt securities fluctuate depending on such factors as interest rates, credit quality and maturity. In general, market prices of
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debt securities decline when interest rates rise and increase when interest rates fall. These fluctuations will generally be greater for longer-term debt securities than for shorter-term debt securities. Prices of these securities can also be affected by financial contracts held by the issuer or third parties (such as derivatives) relating to the security or other assets or indices. Borrowers that are in bankruptcy or restructuring may never pay off their indebtedness, or they may pay only a small fraction of the amount owed. Direct indebtedness of countries, particularly emerging markets, also involves a risk that the governmental entities responsible for the repayment of the debt may be unable, or unwilling, to pay interest and repay principal when due.
Lower rated debt securities, rated Ba1/BB+ or below by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, are described by the rating agencies as speculative and involve greater risk of default or price changes due to changes in the issuer’s creditworthiness than higher rated debt securities, or they may already be in default. Such securities are sometimes referred to as “junk bonds” or high yield bonds. The market prices of these securities may fluctuate more than higher quality securities and may decline significantly in periods of general economic difficulty. It may be more difficult to dispose of, and to determine the value of, lower rated debt securities. Investment grade bonds in the ratings categories A or Baa/BBB also may be more susceptible to changes in market or economic conditions than bonds rated in the highest rating categories.
Certain additional risk factors relating to debt securities are discussed below:
Sensitivity to interest rate and economic changes — Debt securities may be sensitive to economic changes, political and corporate developments, and interest rate changes. In addition, during an economic downturn or a period of rising interest rates, issuers that are highly leveraged may experience increased financial stress that could adversely affect their ability to meet projected business goals, to obtain additional financing and to service their principal and interest payment obligations. Periods of economic change and uncertainty also can be expected to result in increased volatility of market prices and yields of certain debt securities and derivative instruments. As discussed under “Market conditions” above in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement, governments and quasi-governmental authorities may take actions to support local and global economies and financial markets during periods of economic crisis, including direct capital infusions into companies, new monetary programs and significantly lower interest rates. Such actions may expose fixed income markets to heightened volatility and may reduce liquidity for certain investments, which could cause the value of the fund’s portfolio to decline.
Payment expectations — Debt securities may contain redemption or call provisions. If an issuer exercises these provisions in a lower interest rate market, the fund may have to replace the security with a lower yielding security, resulting in decreased income to investors. If the issuer of a debt security defaults on its obligations to pay interest or principal or is the subject of bankruptcy proceedings, the fund may incur losses or expenses in seeking recovery of amounts owed to it.
Liquidity and valuation — There may be little trading in the secondary market for particular debt securities, which may affect adversely the fund’s ability to value accurately or dispose of such debt securities. Adverse publicity and investor perceptions, whether or not based on fundamental analysis, may decrease the value and/or liquidity of debt securities.
Credit ratings for debt securities provided by rating agencies reflect an evaluation of the safety of principal and interest payments, not market value risk. The rating of an issuer is a rating agency’s view of past and future potential developments related to the issuer and may not necessarily reflect actual outcomes. There can be a lag between the time of developments relating to an issuer and the time a
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rating is assigned and updated. The investment adviser considers these ratings of securities as one of many criteria in making its investment decisions.
Bond rating agencies may assign modifiers (such as +/–) to ratings categories to signify the relative position of a credit within the rating category. Investment policies that are based on ratings categories should be read to include any security within that category, without giving consideration to the modifier except where otherwise provided. See the appendix to this Part B of the fund’s registration statement for more information about credit ratings.
Pass-through securities — The fund may invest in various debt obligations backed by pools of mortgages, corporate loans or other assets including, but not limited to, residential mortgage loans, home equity loans, mortgages on commercial buildings, consumer loans and equipment leases. Principal and interest payments made on the underlying asset pools backing these obligations are typically passed through to investors, net of any fees paid to any insurer or any guarantor of the securities. Pass-through securities may have either fixed or adjustable coupons. The risks of an investment in these obligations depend in part on the type of the collateral securing the obligations and the class of the instrument in which the fund invests. These securities include:
Mortgage-backed securities — These securities may be issued by U.S. government agencies and government-sponsored entities, such as Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by private entities. The payment of interest and principal on mortgage-backed obligations issued by U.S. government agencies may be guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government (in the case of Ginnie Mae), or may be guaranteed by the issuer (in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). However, these guarantees do not apply to the market prices and yields of these securities, which vary with changes in interest rates.
Mortgage-backed securities issued by private entities are structured similarly to those issued by U.S. government agencies. However, these securities and the underlying mortgages are not guaranteed by any government agencies and the underlying mortgages are not subject to the same underwriting requirements. These securities generally are structured with one or more types of credit enhancements such as insurance or letters of credit issued by private companies. Borrowers on the underlying mortgages are usually permitted to prepay their underlying mortgages. Prepayments can alter the effective maturity of these instruments. In addition, delinquencies, losses or defaults by borrowers can adversely affect the prices and volatility of these securities. Such delinquencies and losses can be exacerbated by declining or flattening housing and property values. This, along with other outside pressures, such as bankruptcies and financial difficulties experienced by mortgage loan originators, decreased investor demand for mortgage loans and mortgage-related securities and increased investor demand for yield, can adversely affect the value and liquidity of mortgage-backed securities.
Adjustable rate mortgage-backed securities — Adjustable rate mortgage-backed securities (“ARMS”) have interest rates that reset at periodic intervals. Acquiring ARMS permits the fund to participate in increases in prevailing current interest rates through periodic adjustments in the coupons of mortgages underlying the pool on which ARMS are based. Such ARMS generally have higher current yield and lower price fluctuations than is the case with more traditional fixed income debt securities of comparable rating and maturity. In addition, when prepayments of principal are made on the underlying mortgages during periods of rising interest rates, the fund can reinvest the proceeds of such prepayments at rates higher than those at which they were previously invested. Mortgages underlying most ARMS, however, have limits on the allowable annual or lifetime increases that can be made in the interest rate that the mortgagor pays. Therefore, if current interest rates rise above such limits over the period of the limitation, the fund, when holding an ARMS, does not benefit from further increases in interest rates. Moreover, when interest rates are in excess of coupon rates (i.e., the rates being paid by mortgagors) of the mortgages, ARMS behave more like fixed income
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securities and less like adjustable rate securities and are subject to the risks associated with fixed income securities. In addition, during periods of rising interest rates, increases in the coupon rate of adjustable rate mortgages generally lag current market interest rates slightly, thereby creating the potential for capital depreciation on such securities.
Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) — CMOs are also backed by a pool of mortgages or mortgage loans, which are divided into two or more separate bond issues. CMOs issued by U.S. government agencies are backed by agency mortgages, while privately issued CMOs may be backed by either government agency mortgages or private mortgages. Payments of principal and interest are passed through to each bond issue at varying schedules resulting in bonds with different coupons, effective maturities and sensitivities to interest rates. Some CMOs may be structured in a way that when interest rates change, the impact of changing prepayment rates on the effective maturities of certain issues of these securities is magnified. CMOs may be less liquid or may exhibit greater price volatility than other types of mortgage or asset-backed securities.
Commercial mortgage-backed securities — These securities are backed by mortgages on commercial property, such as hotels, office buildings, retail stores, hospitals and other commercial buildings. These securities may have a lower prepayment uncertainty than other mortgage-related securities because commercial mortgage loans generally prohibit or impose penalties on prepayments of principal. In addition, commercial mortgage-related securities often are structured with some form of credit enhancement to protect against potential losses on the underlying mortgage loans. Many of the risks of investing in commercial mortgage-backed securities reflect the risks of investing in the real estate securing the underlying mortgage loans, including the effects of local and other economic conditions on real estate markets, the ability of tenants to make rental payments and the ability of a property to attract and retain tenants. Commercial mortgage-backed securities may be less liquid or exhibit greater price volatility than other types of mortgage or asset-backed securities and may be more difficult to value.
Asset-backed securities — These securities are backed by other assets such as credit card, automobile or consumer loan receivables, retail installment loans or participations in pools of leases. Credit support for these securities may be based on the underlying assets and/or provided through credit enhancements by a third party. The values of these securities are sensitive to changes in the credit quality of the underlying collateral, the credit strength of the credit enhancement, changes in interest rates and at times the financial condition of the issuer. Obligors of the underlying assets also may make prepayments that can change effective maturities of the asset-backed securities. These securities may be less liquid and more difficult to value than other securities.
Collateralized bond obligations (CBOs) and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) — A CBO is a trust typically backed by a diversified pool of fixed-income securities, which may include high risk, lower rated securities. A CLO is a trust typically collateralized by a pool of loans, which may include, among others, senior secured loans, senior unsecured loans, and subordinate corporate loans, including lower rated loans. CBOs and CLOs may charge management fees and administrative expenses.
For both CBOs and CLOs, the cash flows from the trust are split into two or more portions, called tranches, varying in risk and yield. The riskiest and highest yielding portion is the “equity” tranche which bears the bulk of any default by the bonds or loans in the trust and is constructed to protect the other, more senior tranches from default. Since they are partially protected from defaults, the more senior tranches typically have higher ratings and lower yields than the underlying securities in the trust and can be rated investment grade. Despite the protection from the equity tranche, the more senior tranches can still experience
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substantial losses due to actual defaults of the underlying assets, increased sensitivity to defaults due to impairment of the collateral or the more junior tranches, market anticipation of defaults, as well as potential general aversions to CBO or CLO securities as a class. Normally, these securities are privately offered and sold, and thus, are not registered under the securities laws. CBOs and CLOs may be less liquid, may exhibit greater price volatility and may be more difficult to value than other securities.
Securities with equity and debt characteristics — Certain securities have a combination of equity and debt characteristics. Such securities may at times behave more like equity than debt or vice versa.
Preferred stock — Preferred stock represents an equity interest in an issuer that generally entitles the holder to receive, in preference to common stockholders and the holders of certain other stocks, dividends and a fixed share of the proceeds resulting from a liquidation of the issuer. Preferred stocks may pay fixed or adjustable rates of return, and preferred stock dividends may be cumulative or non-cumulative and participating or non-participating. Cumulative dividend provisions require all or a portion of prior unpaid dividends to be paid before dividends can be paid to the issuer’s common stockholders, while prior unpaid dividends on non-cumulative preferred stock are forfeited. Participating preferred stock may be entitled to a dividend exceeding the issuer’s declared dividend in certain cases, while non-participating preferred stock is entitled only to the stipulated dividend. Preferred stock is subject to issuer-specific and market risks applicable generally to equity securities. As with debt securities, the prices and yields of preferred stocks often move with changes in interest rates and the issuer’s credit quality. Additionally, a company’s preferred stock typically pays dividends only after the company makes required payments to holders of its bonds and other debt. Accordingly, the price of preferred stock will usually react more strongly than bonds and other debt to actual or perceived changes in the issuing company’s financial condition or prospects. Preferred stock of smaller companies may be more vulnerable to adverse developments than preferred stock of larger companies.
Convertible securities — A convertible security is a debt obligation, preferred stock or other security that may be converted, within a specified period of time and at a stated conversion rate, into common stock or other equity securities of the same or a different issuer. The conversion may occur automatically upon the occurrence of a predetermined event or at the option of either the issuer or the security holder. Under certain circumstances, a convertible security may also be called for redemption or conversion by the issuer after a particular date and at predetermined price specified upon issue. If a convertible security held by the fund is called for redemption or conversion, the fund could be required to tender the security for redemption, convert it into the underlying common stock, or sell it to a third party.
The holder of a convertible security is generally entitled to participate in the capital appreciation resulting from a market price increase in the issuer’s common stock and to receive interest paid or accrued until the convertible security matures or is redeemed, converted or exchanged. Before conversion, convertible securities have characteristics similar to non-convertible debt or preferred securities, as applicable. Convertible securities rank senior to common stock in an issuer’s capital structure and, therefore, normally entail less risk than the issuer’s common stock. However, convertible securities may also be subordinate to any senior debt obligations of the issuer, and, therefore, an issuer’s convertible securities may entail more risk than such senior debt obligations. Convertible securities usually offer lower interest or dividend yields than non-convertible debt securities of similar credit quality because of the potential for capital appreciation. In addition, convertible securities are often lower-rated securities.
Because of the conversion feature, the price of a convertible security will normally fluctuate in some proportion to changes in the price of the underlying asset, and, accordingly, convertible
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securities are subject to risks relating to the activities of the issuer and/or general market and economic conditions. The income component of a convertible security may cushion the security against declines in the price of the underlying asset but may also cause the price of the security to fluctuate based upon changes in interest rates and the credit quality of the issuer. As with a straight fixed income security, the price of a convertible security tends to increase when interest rates decline and decrease when interest rates rise. Like the price of a common stock, the price of a convertible security also tends to increase as the price of the underlying stock rises and to decrease as the price of the underlying stock declines.
Hybrid securities — A hybrid security is a type of security that also has equity and debt characteristics. Like equities, which have no final maturity, a hybrid security may be perpetual. On the other hand, like debt securities, a hybrid security may be callable at the option of the issuer on a date specified at issue. Additionally, like common equities, which may stop paying dividends at virtually any time without violating any contractual terms or conditions, hybrids typically allow for issuers to withhold payment of interest until a later date or to suspend coupon payments entirely without triggering an event of default. Hybrid securities are normally at the bottom of an issuer’s debt capital structure because holders of an issuer’s hybrid securities are structurally subordinated to the issuer’s senior creditors. In bankruptcy, hybrid security holders should only get paid after all senior creditors of the issuer have been paid but before any disbursements are made to the issuer’s equity holders. Accordingly, hybrid securities may be more sensitive to economic changes than more senior debt securities. Such securities may also be viewed as more equity-like by the market when the issuer or its parent company experiences financial difficulties.
Contingent convertible securities, which are also known as contingent capital securities, are a form of hybrid security that are intended to either convert into equity or have their principal written down upon the occurrence of certain trigger events. One type of contingent convertible security has characteristics designed to absorb losses, by providing that the liquidation value of the security may be adjusted downward to below the original par value or written off entirely under certain circumstances. For instance, if losses have eroded the issuer’s capital level below a specified threshold, the liquidation value of the security may be reduced in whole or in part. The write-down of the security’s par value may occur automatically and would not entitle holders to institute bankruptcy proceedings against the issuer. In addition, an automatic write-down could result in a reduced income rate if the dividend or interest payment associated with the security is based on the security’s par value. Such securities may, but are not required to, provide for circumstances under which the liquidation value of the security may be adjusted back up to par, such as an improvement in capitalization or earnings. Another type of contingent convertible security provides for mandatory conversion of the security into common shares of the issuer under certain circumstances. The mandatory conversion might relate, for example, to the issuer’s failure to maintain a capital minimum. Since the common stock of the issuer may not pay a dividend, investors in such instruments could experience reduced yields (or no yields at all) and conversion would deepen the subordination of the investor, effectively worsening the investor’s standing in the case of the issuer’s insolvency. An automatic write-down or conversion event with respect to a contingent convertible security will typically be triggered by a reduction in the issuer’s capital level, but may also be triggered by regulatory actions, such as a change in regulatory capital requirements, or by other factors.
Obligations backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government — U.S. government obligations include the following types of securities:
U.S. Treasury securities — U.S. Treasury securities include direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury, such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds. For these securities, the payment of principal and interest is unconditionally guaranteed by the U.S. government, and thus they are of high credit quality.
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Federal agency securities — The securities of certain U.S. government agencies and government-sponsored entities are guaranteed as to the timely payment of principal and interest by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Such agencies and entities include, but are not limited to, the Federal Financing Bank (“FFB”), the Government National Mortgage Association (“Ginnie Mae”), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”), the Export-Import Bank of the United States (“Exim Bank”), the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”), the Commodity Credit Corporation (“CCC”) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”).
Such securities are subject to variations in market value due to fluctuations in interest rates and in government policies, among other things, but, if held to maturity, are expected to be paid in full (either at maturity or thereafter). However, from time to time, a high national debt level, and uncertainty regarding negotiations to increase the U.S. government’s debt ceiling and periodic legislation to fund the government, could increase the risk that the U.S. government may default on its obligations and/or lead to a downgrade of the credit rating of the U.S. government. Such an event could adversely affect the value of investments in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, cause the fund to suffer losses and lead to significant disruptions in U.S. and global markets. Regulatory or market changes or conditions could increase demand for U.S. government securities and affect the availability of such instruments for investment and the fund's ability to pursue its investment strategies.
Other federal agency obligations — Additional federal agency securities are neither direct obligations of, nor guaranteed by, the U.S. government. These obligations include securities issued by certain U.S. government agencies and government-sponsored entities. However, they generally involve some form of federal sponsorship: some operate under a congressional charter; some are backed by collateral consisting of “full faith and credit” obligations as described above; some are supported by the issuer’s right to borrow from the Treasury; and others are supported only by the credit of the issuing government agency or entity. These agencies and entities include, but are not limited to: the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Federal Farm Credit Bank System.
In 2008, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were placed into conservatorship by their new regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”). Simultaneously, the U.S. Treasury made a commitment of indefinite duration to maintain the positive net worth of both firms. As conservator, the FHFA has the authority to repudiate any contract either firm has entered into prior to the FHFA’s appointment as conservator (or receiver should either firm go into default) if the FHFA, in its sole discretion determines that performance of the contract is burdensome and repudiation would promote the orderly administration of Fannie Mae’s or Freddie Mac’s affairs. While the FHFA has indicated that it does not intend to repudiate the guaranty obligations of either entity, doing so could adversely affect holders of their mortgage-backed securities. For example, if a contract were repudiated, the liability for any direct compensatory damages would accrue to the entity’s conservatorship estate and could only be satisfied to the extent the estate had available assets. As a result, if interest payments on Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities held by the fund were reduced because underlying borrowers failed to make payments or such payments were not advanced by a loan servicer, the fund’s only recourse might be against the conservatorship estate, which might not have sufficient assets to offset any shortfalls.
The FHFA, in its capacity as conservator, has the power to transfer or sell any asset or liability of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The FHFA has indicated it has no current intention to do this; however, should it do so a holder of a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgage-backed security would have to rely on another party for satisfaction of the guaranty obligations and would be exposed to the credit risk of that party.
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Certain rights provided to holders of mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac under their operative documents may not be enforceable against the FHFA, or enforcement may be delayed during the course of the conservatorship or any future receivership. For example, the operative documents may provide that upon the occurrence of an event of default by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, holders of a requisite percentage of the mortgage-backed security may replace the entity as trustee. However, under the Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008, holders may not enforce this right if the event of default arises solely because a conservator or receiver has been appointed.
Investing outside the United States — Securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States or with significant operations or revenues outside the United States, and securities tied economically to countries outside the United States, may lose value because of adverse political, social, economic or market developments (including social instability, regional conflicts, terrorism and war) in the countries or regions in which the issuers are domiciled, operate or generate revenue or to which the securities are tied economically. These issuers may also be more susceptible to actions of foreign governments such as the imposition of price controls, sanctions, or punitive taxes that could adversely impact the value of these securities. To the extent the fund invests in securities that are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, these securities may also lose value due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and/or currencies of other countries. Securities markets in certain countries may be more volatile or less liquid than those in the United States. Investments outside the United States may also be subject to different accounting practices and different regulatory, legal, auditing, financial reporting and recordkeeping standards and practices, and may be more difficult to value, than those in the United States. In addition, the value of investments outside the United States may be reduced by foreign taxes, including foreign withholding taxes on interest and dividends. Further, there may be increased risks of delayed settlement of securities purchased or sold by the fund, which could impact the liquidity of the fund’s portfolio. The risks of investing outside the United States may be heightened in connection with investments in emerging markets.
Additional costs could be incurred in connection with the fund’s investment activities outside the United States. Brokerage commissions may be higher outside the United States, and the fund will bear certain expenses in connection with its currency transactions. Furthermore, increased custodian costs may be associated with maintaining assets in certain jurisdictions.
Investing in emerging markets — Investing in emerging markets may involve risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in the securities markets of developed countries. For instance, emerging market countries tend to have less developed political, economic and legal systems than those in developed countries. Accordingly, the governments of these countries may be less stable and more likely to intervene in the market economy, for example, by imposing capital controls, nationalizing a company or industry, placing restrictions on foreign ownership and on withdrawing sale proceeds of securities from the country, and/or imposing punitive taxes that could adversely affect the prices of securities. Information regarding issuers in emerging markets may be limited, incomplete or inaccurate, and such issuers may not be subject to regulatory, accounting, auditing, and financial reporting and recordkeeping standards comparable to those to which issuers in more developed markets are subject. The fund’s rights with respect to its investments in emerging markets, if any, will generally be governed by local law, which may make it difficult or impossible for the fund to pursue legal remedies or to obtain and enforce judgments in local courts. In addition, the economies of these countries may be dependent on relatively few industries, may have limited access to capital and may be more susceptible to changes in local and global trade conditions and downturns in the world economy. Securities markets in these countries can also be relatively small and have substantially lower trading volumes. As a result, securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid, more vulnerable to market manipulation, and more difficult to value, than securities issued in countries with more developed economies and/or markets. Less certainty with respect to security valuations may lead to additional challenges and risks in calculating the fund’s net asset value. Additionally, emerging markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing
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and settling of trades and the holding of securities by banks, agents and depositories that are less established than those in developed countries.
In countries where direct foreign investment is limited or prohibited, the fund may invest in operating companies based in such countries through an offshore intermediary entity that, based on contractual agreements, seeks to replicate the rights and obligations of direct equity ownership in such operating company. Because the contractual arrangements do not in fact bestow the fund with actual equity ownership in the operating company, these investment structures may limit the fund’s rights as an investor and create significant additional risks. For example, local government authorities may determine that such structures do not comply with applicable laws and regulations, including those relating to restrictions on foreign ownership. In such event, the intermediary entity and/or the operating company may be subject to penalties, revocation of business and operating licenses or forfeiture of foreign ownership interests, and the fund’s economic interests in the underlying operating company and its rights as an investor may not be recognized, resulting in a loss to the fund and its shareholders. In addition, exerting control through contractual arrangements may be less effective than direct equity ownership, and a company may incur substantial costs to enforce the terms of such arrangements, including those relating to the distribution of the funds among the entities. These special investment structures may also be disregarded for tax purposes by local tax authorities, resulting in increased tax liabilities, and the fund’s control over – and distributions due from – such structures may be jeopardized if the individuals who hold the equity interest in such structures breach the terms of the agreements. While these structures may be widely used to circumvent limits on foreign ownership in certain jurisdictions, there is no assurance that they will be upheld by local regulatory authorities or that disputes regarding the same will be resolved consistently.
Although there is no universally accepted definition, the investment adviser generally considers an emerging market to be a market that is in the earlier stages of its industrialization cycle with a low per capita gross domestic product (“GDP”) and a low market capitalization to GDP ratio relative to those in the United States and the European Union, and would include markets commonly referred to as “frontier markets.” For example, the investment adviser currently expects that most countries not designated as developed markets by MSCI Inc. (“MSCI”) will be treated as emerging markets for equity securities, and that most countries designated as emerging markets by J.P. Morgan or, if not available, Bloomberg will be treated as emerging markets for debt securities.
Certain risk factors related to emerging markets
Currency fluctuations — Certain emerging markets’ currencies have experienced and in the future may experience significant declines against the U.S. dollar. For example, if the U.S. dollar appreciates against foreign currencies, the value of the fund’s emerging markets securities holdings would generally depreciate and vice versa. Further, the fund may lose money due to losses and other expenses incurred in converting various currencies to purchase and sell securities valued in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, as well as from currency restrictions, exchange control regulation, governmental restrictions that limit or otherwise delay the fund's ability to convert or repatriate currencies and currency devaluations.
Government regulation — Certain emerging markets lack uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting and disclosure standards, have less governmental supervision of financial markets than in the United States, and may not honor legal rights or protections enjoyed by investors in the United States. Certain governments may be more unstable and present greater risks of nationalization or restrictions on foreign ownership of local companies. Repatriation of investment income, capital and the proceeds of sales by foreign investors may require governmental registration and/or approval in some emerging markets. While the fund will only invest in markets where these restrictions are considered acceptable by the investment adviser, a country could impose new or additional repatriation restrictions after the fund’s investment. If this happened, the fund’s response might include, among other things, applying
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to the appropriate authorities for a waiver of the restrictions or engaging in transactions in other markets designed to offset the risks of decline in that country. Such restrictions will be considered in relation to the fund’s liquidity needs and other factors. Further, some attractive equity securities may not be available to the fund if foreign shareholders already hold the maximum amount legally permissible.
While government involvement in the private sector varies in degree among emerging markets, such involvement may in some cases include government ownership of companies in certain sectors, wage and price controls or imposition of trade barriers and other protectionist measures. With respect to any emerging market, there is no guarantee that some future economic or political crisis will not lead to price controls, forced mergers of companies, expropriation, or creation of government monopolies to the possible detriment of the fund’s investments.
Fluctuations in inflation rates — Rapid fluctuations in inflation rates may have negative impacts on the economies and securities markets of certain emerging market countries.
Less developed securities markets — Emerging markets may be less well-developed and regulated than other markets. These markets have lower trading volumes than the securities markets of more developed countries and may be unable to respond effectively to increases in trading volume. Consequently, these markets may be substantially less liquid than those of more developed countries, and the securities of issuers located in these markets may have limited marketability. These factors may make prompt liquidation of substantial portfolio holdings difficult or impossible at times.
Settlement risks — Settlement systems in emerging markets are generally less well organized than those of developed markets. Supervisory authorities may also be unable to apply standards comparable to those in developed markets. Thus, there may be risks that settlement may be delayed and that cash or securities belonging to the fund may be in jeopardy because of failures of or defects in the systems. In particular, market practice may require that payment be made before receipt of the security being purchased or that delivery of a security be made before payment is received. In such cases, default by a broker or bank (the “counterparty”) through which the transaction is effected might cause the fund to suffer a loss. The fund will seek, where possible, to use counterparties whose financial status is such that this risk is reduced. However, there can be no certainty that the fund will be successful in eliminating this risk, particularly as counterparties operating in emerging markets frequently lack the standing or financial resources of those in developed countries. There may also be a danger that, because of uncertainties in the operation of settlement systems in individual markets, competing claims may arise with respect to securities held by or to be transferred to the fund.
Limited market information — The fund may encounter problems assessing investment opportunities in certain emerging markets in light of limitations on available information and different accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards. For example, due to jurisdictional limitations, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”), which regulates auditors of U.S. reporting companies, may be unable to inspect the audit work and practices of PCAOB-registered auditing firms in certain emerging markets. As a result, there is greater risk that financial records and information relating to an issuer’s operations in emerging markets will be incomplete or misleading, which may negatively impact the fund’s investments in such company. When faced with limited market information, the fund’s investment adviser will seek alternative sources of information, and to the extent the investment adviser is not satisfied with the sufficiency or accuracy of the information obtained with respect to a particular market or security, the fund will not invest in such market or security.
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Taxation — Taxation of dividends, interest and capital gains received by the fund varies among emerging markets and, in some cases, is comparatively high. In addition, emerging markets typically have less well-defined tax laws and procedures and such laws may permit retroactive taxation so that the fund could become subject in the future to local tax liability that it had not reasonably anticipated in conducting its investment activities or valuing its assets.
Fraudulent securities — Securities purchased by the fund may subsequently be found to be fraudulent or counterfeit, resulting in a loss to the fund.
Remedies — Emerging markets may offer less protection to investors than U.S. markets and, in the event of investor harm, there may be substantially less recourse available to the fund and its shareholders. In addition, as a matter of law or practicality, the fund and its shareholders - as well as U.S. regulators - may encounter substantial difficulties in obtaining and enforcing judgments and other actions against non-U.S. individuals and companies.
Real estate investment trusts — Real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), which primarily invest in real estate or real estate-related loans, may issue equity or debt securities. Equity REITs own real estate properties, while mortgage REITs hold construction, development and/or long-term mortgage loans. The values of REITs may be affected by changes in the value of the underlying property of the trusts, the creditworthiness of the issuer, property taxes, interest rates, tax laws and regulatory requirements, such as those relating to the environment. Both types of REITs are dependent upon management skill and the cash flows generated by their holdings, the real estate market in general and the possibility of failing to qualify for any applicable pass-through tax treatment or failing to maintain any applicable exemptive status afforded under relevant laws.
Indirect exposure to cryptocurrencies – Cryptocurrencies are currencies which exist in a digital form and may act as a store of wealth, a medium of exchange or an investment asset. There are thousands of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin. Although the fund has no current intention of directly investing in cryptocurrencies, some issuers have begun to accept cryptocurrency for payment of services, use cryptocurrencies as reserve assets or invest in cryptocurrencies, and the fund may invest in securities of such issuers. The fund may also invest in securities of issuers which provide cryptocurrency-related services.
Cryptocurrencies are subject to fluctuations in value. Cryptocurrencies are not backed by any government, corporation or other identified body. Rather, the value of a cryptocurrency is determined by other factors, such as the perceived future prospects or the supply and demand for such cryptocurrency in the global market for the trading of cryptocurrency. Such trading markets are unregulated and may be more exposed to operational or technical issues as well as fraud or manipulation in comparison to established, regulated exchanges for securities, derivatives and traditional currencies. The value of a cryptocurrency may decline precipitously (including to zero) for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, regulatory changes, a loss of confidence in its network or a change in user preference to other cryptocurrencies. An issuer that owns cryptocurrencies may experience custody issues, and may lose its cryptocurrency holdings through theft, hacking, or technical glitches in the applicable blockchain. The fund may experience losses as a result of the decline in value of its securities of issuers that own cryptocurrencies or which provide cryptocurrency-related services. If an issuer that owns cryptocurrencies intends to pay a dividend using such holdings or to otherwise make a distribution of such holdings to its stockholders, such dividends or distributions may face regulatory, operational and technical issues.
Factors affecting the further development of cryptocurrency include, but are not limited to: continued worldwide growth of, or possible cessation of or reversal in, the adoption and use of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets; the developing regulatory environment relating to cryptocurrencies, including the characterization of cryptocurrencies as currencies, commodities, or securities, the tax treatment of
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cryptocurrencies, and government and quasi-government regulation or restrictions on, or regulation of access to and operation of, cryptocurrency networks and the exchanges on which cryptocurrencies trade, including anti-money laundering regulations and requirements; perceptions regarding the environmental impact of a cryptocurrency; changes in consumer demographics and public preferences; general economic conditions; maintenance and development of open-source software protocols; the availability and popularity of other forms or methods of buying and selling goods and services; the use of the networks supporting digital assets, such as those for developing smart contracts and distributed applications; and general risks tied to the use of information technologies, including cyber risks. A hack or failure of one cryptocurrency may lead to a loss in confidence in, and thus decreased usage and/or value of, other cryptocurrencies.
Inflation-linked bonds — The fund may invest in inflation-linked bonds issued by governments, their agencies or instrumentalities and corporations.
The principal amount of an inflation-linked bond is adjusted in response to changes in the level of an inflation index, such as the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (“CPURNSA”). If the index measuring inflation falls, the principal value or coupon of these securities will be adjusted downward. Consequently, the interest payable on these securities will be reduced. Also, if the principal value of these securities is adjusted according to the rate of inflation, the adjusted principal value repaid at maturity may be less than the original principal. In the case of U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (“TIPS”), currently the only inflation-linked security that is issued by the U.S. Treasury, the principal amounts are adjusted daily based upon changes in the rate of inflation (as currently represented by the non-seasonally adjusted CPURNSA, calculated with a three-month lag). TIPS may pay interest semi-annually, equal to a fixed percentage of the inflation-adjusted principal amount. The interest rate on these bonds is fixed at issuance, but over the life of the bond this interest may be paid on an increasing or decreasing principal amount that has been adjusted for inflation. The current market value of TIPS is not guaranteed and will fluctuate. However, the U.S. government guarantees that, at maturity, principal will be repaid at the higher of the original face value of the security (in the event of deflation) or the inflation adjusted value.
Other non-U.S. sovereign governments also issue inflation-linked securities that are tied to their own local consumer price indexes and that offer similar deflationary protection. In certain of these non-U.S. jurisdictions, the repayment of the original bond principal upon the maturity of an inflation-linked bond is not guaranteed, allowing for the amount of the bond repaid at maturity to be less than par. Corporations also periodically issue inflation-linked securities tied to CPURNSA or similar inflationary indexes. While TIPS and non-U.S. sovereign inflation-linked securities are currently the largest part of the inflation-linked market, the fund may invest in corporate inflation-linked securities.
The value of inflation-linked securities is expected to change in response to the changes in real interest rates. Real interest rates, in turn, are tied to the relationship between nominal interest rates and the rate of inflation. If inflation were to rise at a faster rate than nominal interest rates, real interest rates would decline, leading to an increase in value of the inflation-linked securities. In contrast, if nominal interest rates were to increase at a faster rate than inflation, real interest rates might rise, leading to a decrease in value of inflation-linked securities. There can be no assurance, however, that the value of inflation-linked securities will be directly correlated to the changes in interest rates. If interest rates rise due to reasons other than inflation, investors in these securities may not be protected to the extent that the increase is not reflected in the security’s inflation measure.
The interest rate for inflation-linked bonds is fixed at issuance as a percentage of this adjustable principal. Accordingly, the actual interest income may both rise and fall as the principal amount of the bonds adjusts in response to movements of the consumer price index. For example, typically interest income would rise during a period of inflation and fall during a period of deflation.
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The market for inflation-linked securities may be less developed or liquid, and more volatile, than certain other securities markets. There is a limited number of inflation-linked securities currently available for the fund to purchase, making the market less liquid and more volatile than the U.S. Treasury and agency markets.
Forward commitment, when issued and delayed delivery transactions — The fund may enter into commitments to purchase or sell securities at a future date. When the fund agrees to purchase such securities, it assumes the risk of any decline in value of the security from the date of the agreement. If the other party to such a transaction fails to deliver or pay for the securities, the fund could miss a favorable price or yield opportunity, or could experience a loss.
The fund may enter into roll transactions, such as a mortgage dollar roll where the fund sells mortgage-backed securities for delivery in the current month and simultaneously contracts to repurchase substantially similar (same type, coupon, and maturity) securities on a specified future date, at a pre-determined price. During the period between the sale and repurchase (the “roll period”), the fund forgoes principal and interest paid on the mortgage-backed securities. The fund is compensated by the difference between the current sales price and the lower forward price for the future purchase (often referred to as the “drop”), if any, as well as by the interest earned on the cash proceeds of the initial sale. The fund could suffer a loss if the contracting party fails to perform the future transaction and the fund is therefore unable to buy back the mortgage-backed securities it initially sold. The fund also takes the risk that the mortgage-backed securities that it repurchases at a later date will have less favorable market characteristics than the securities originally sold (e.g., greater prepayment risk). These transactions are accounted for as purchase and sale transactions, which contribute to the fund’s portfolio turnover rate.
With to be announced (“TBA”) transactions, the particular securities (i.e., specified mortgage pools) to be delivered or received are not identified at the trade date, but are “to be announced” at a later settlement date. However, securities to be delivered must meet specified criteria, including face value, coupon rate and maturity, and be within industry-accepted “good delivery” standards.
The fund will not use these transactions for the purpose of leveraging. Although these transactions will not be entered into for leveraging purposes, the fund temporarily could be in a leveraged position (because it may have an amount greater than its net assets subject to market risk). Should market values of the fund’s portfolio securities decline while the fund is in a leveraged position, greater depreciation of its net assets would likely occur than if it were not in such a position. After a transaction is entered into, the fund may still dispose of or renegotiate the transaction. Additionally, prior to receiving delivery of securities as part of a transaction, the fund may sell such securities.
Under the SEC’s rule applicable to the fund’s use of derivatives, when issued, forward-settling and nonstandard settlement cycle securities, as well as TBAs and roll transactions, will be treated as derivatives unless the fund intends to physically settle these transactions and the transactions will settle within 35 days of their respective trade dates.
Repurchase agreements — The fund may enter into repurchase agreements, or “repos”, under which the fund buys a security and obtains a simultaneous commitment from the seller to repurchase the security at a specified time and price. Because the security purchased constitutes collateral for the repurchase obligation, a repo may be considered a loan by the fund that is collateralized by the security purchased. Repos permit the fund to maintain liquidity and earn income over periods of time as short as overnight.
The seller must maintain with a custodian collateral equal to at least the repurchase price, including accrued interest. In tri-party repos and centrally cleared or “sponsored” repos, a third-party custodian, either a clearing bank in the case of tri-party repos or a central clearing counterparty in the case of
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centrally cleared repos, facilitates repo clearing and settlement, including by providing collateral management services. In bilateral repos, the parties themselves are responsible for settling transactions.
The fund will only enter into repos involving securities of the type in which it could otherwise invest. If the seller under the repo defaults, the fund may incur a loss if the value of the collateral securing the repo has declined and may incur disposition costs and delays in connection with liquidating the collateral. If bankruptcy proceedings are commenced with respect to the seller, realization of the collateral by the fund may be delayed or limited.
Cash and cash equivalents — The fund may hold cash or invest in cash equivalents. Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to: (a) shares of money market or similar funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates; (b) shares of other money market funds; (c) commercial paper; (d) short-term bank obligations (for example, certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances (time drafts on a commercial bank where the bank accepts an irrevocable obligation to pay at maturity)) or bank notes; (e) savings association and savings bank obligations (for example, bank notes and certificates of deposit issued by savings banks or savings associations); (f) securities of the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities that mature, or that may be redeemed, in one year or less; and (g) higher quality corporate bonds and notes that mature, or that may be redeemed, in one year or less.
Commercial paper — The fund may purchase commercial paper. Commercial paper refers to short-term promissory notes issued by a corporation to finance its current operations. Such securities normally have maturities of thirteen months or less and, though commercial paper is often unsecured, commercial paper may be supported by letters of credit, surety bonds or other forms of collateral. Maturing commercial paper issuances are usually repaid by the issuer from the proceeds of new commercial paper issuances. As a result, investment in commercial paper is subject to rollover risk, or the risk that the issuer cannot issue enough new commercial paper to satisfy its outstanding commercial paper. Like all fixed income securities, commercial paper prices are susceptible to fluctuations in interest rates. If interest rates rise, commercial paper prices will decline and vice versa. However, the short-term nature of a commercial paper investment makes it less susceptible to volatility than many other fixed income securities because interest rate risk typically increases as maturity lengths increase. Commercial paper tends to yield smaller returns than longer-term corporate debt because securities with shorter maturities typically have lower effective yields than those with longer maturities. As with all fixed income securities, there is a chance that the issuer will default on its commercial paper obligations and commercial paper may become illiquid or suffer from reduced liquidity in these or other situations.
Commercial paper in which the fund may invest includes commercial paper issued in reliance on the exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”). Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper has substantially the same price and liquidity characteristics as commercial paper generally, except that the resale of Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper is limited to institutional investors who agree that they are purchasing the paper for investment purposes and not with a view to public distribution. Technically, such a restriction on resale renders Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper a restricted security under the 1933 Act. In practice, however, Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper typically can be resold as easily as any other unrestricted security held by the fund. Accordingly, Section 4(a)(2) commercial paper has been generally determined to be liquid under procedures adopted by the fund’s board of trustees.
Variable and floating rate obligations — The interest rates payable on certain securities and other instruments in which the fund may invest may not be fixed but may fluctuate based upon changes in market interest rates or credit ratings. Variable and floating rate obligations bear coupon rates that are adjusted at designated intervals, based on the then current market interest rates or credit ratings. The rate adjustment features tend to limit the extent to which the market value of the obligations will fluctuate. When the fund holds variable or floating rate securities, a decrease in market interest rates
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will adversely affect the income received from such securities and the net asset value of the fund’s shares.
Loan assignments and participations — The fund may invest in loans or other forms of indebtedness that represent interests in amounts owed by corporations or other borrowers (collectively “borrowers”). The investment adviser defines debt securities to include investments in loans, such as loan assignments and participations. Loans may be originated by the borrower in order to address its working capital needs, as a result of a reorganization of the borrower’s assets and liabilities (recapitalizations), to merge with or acquire another company (mergers and acquisitions), to take control of another company (leveraged buy-outs), to provide temporary financing (bridge loans), or for other corporate purposes. Most corporate loans are variable or floating rate obligations.
Some loans may be secured in whole or in part by assets or other collateral. In other cases, loans may be unsecured or may become undersecured by declines in the value of assets or other collateral securing such loan. The greater the value of the assets securing the loan the more the lender is protected against loss in the case of nonpayment of principal or interest. Loans made to highly leveraged borrowers may be especially vulnerable to adverse changes in economic or market conditions and may involve a greater risk of default.
Some loans may represent revolving credit facilities or delayed funding loans, in which a lender agrees to make loans up to a maximum amount upon demand by the borrower during a specified term. These commitments may have the effect of requiring the fund to increase its investment in a company at a time when it might not otherwise decide to do so (including at a time when the company’s financial condition makes it unlikely that such amounts will be repaid).
Some loans may represent debtor-in-possession financings (commonly known as “DIP financings”). DIP financings are arranged when an entity seeks the protections of the bankruptcy court under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. These financings allow the entity to continue its business operations while reorganizing under Chapter 11. Such financings constitute senior liens on unencumbered collateral (i.e., collateral not subject to other creditors’ claims). There is a risk that the entity will not emerge from Chapter 11 and will be forced to liquidate its assets under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In the event of liquidation, the fund’s only recourse will be against the collateral securing the DIP financing.
The investment adviser generally makes investment decisions based on publicly available information, but may rely on non-public information if necessary. Borrowers may offer to provide lenders with material, non-public information regarding a specific loan or the borrower in general. The investment adviser generally chooses not to receive this information. As a result, the investment adviser may be at a disadvantage compared to other investors that may receive such information. The investment adviser’s decision not to receive material, non-public information may impact the investment adviser’s ability to assess a borrower’s requests for amendments or waivers of provisions in the loan agreement. However, the investment adviser may on a case-by-case basis decide to receive such information when it deems prudent. In these situations the investment adviser may be restricted from trading the loan or buying or selling other debt and equity securities of the borrower while it is in possession of such material, non-public information, even if such loan or other security is declining in value.
The fund normally acquires loan obligations through an assignment from another lender, but also may acquire loan obligations by purchasing participation interests from lenders or other holders of the interests. When the fund purchases assignments, it acquires direct contractual rights against the borrower on the loan. The fund acquires the right to receive principal and interest payments directly from the borrower and to enforce its rights as a lender directly against the borrower. However, because assignments are arranged through private negotiations between potential assignees and potential assignors, the rights and obligations acquired by a fund as the purchaser of an assignment
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may differ from, and be more limited than, those held by the assigning lender. Loan assignments are often administered by a financial institution that acts as agent for the holders of the loan, and the fund may be required to receive approval from the agent and/or borrower prior to the purchase of a loan. Risks may also arise due to the inability of the agent to meet its obligations under the loan agreement.
Loan participations are loans or other direct debt instruments that are interests in amounts owed by the borrower to another party. They may represent amounts owed to lenders or lending syndicates, to suppliers of goods or services, or to other parties. The fund will have the right to receive payments of principal, interest and any fees to which it is entitled only from the lender selling the participation and only upon receipt by the lender of the payments from the borrower. In connection with purchasing participations, the fund generally will have no right to enforce compliance by the borrower with the terms of the loan agreement relating to the loan, nor any rights of set-off against the borrower. In addition, the fund may not directly benefit from any collateral supporting the loan in which it has purchased the participation and the fund will have to rely on the agent bank or other financial intermediary to apply appropriate credit remedies. As a result, the fund will be subject to the credit risk of both the borrower and the lender that is selling the participation. In the event of the insolvency of the lender selling a participation, a fund may be treated as a general creditor of the lender and may not benefit from any set-off between the lender and the borrower.
Loan assignments and participations are generally subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale and are not currently listed on any securities exchange or automatic quotation system. Risks may arise due to delayed settlements of loan assignments and participations. The investment adviser expects that most loan assignments and participations purchased for the fund will trade on a secondary market. However, although secondary markets for investments in loans are growing among institutional investors, a limited number of investors may be interested in a specific loan. It is possible that loan participations, in particular, could be sold only to a limited number of institutional investors. If there is no active secondary market for a particular loan, it may be difficult for the investment adviser to sell the fund’s interest in such loan at a price that is acceptable to it and to obtain pricing information on such loan.
Investments in loan participations and assignments present the possibility that the fund could be held liable as a co-lender under emerging legal theories of lender liability. In addition, if the loan is foreclosed, the fund could be part owner of any collateral and could bear the costs and liabilities of owning and disposing of the collateral. In addition, some loan participations and assignments may not be rated by major rating agencies and may not be protected by securities laws.
Unfunded commitment agreements — The fund may enter into unfunded commitment agreements to make certain investments, including unsettled bank loan purchase transactions. Under the SEC’s rule applicable to the fund’s use of derivatives, unfunded commitment agreements are not derivatives transactions. The fund will only enter into such unfunded commitment agreements if the fund reasonably believes, at the time it enters into such agreement, that it will have sufficient cash and cash equivalents to meet its obligations with respect to all of its unfunded commitment agreements as they come due.
Restricted or illiquid securities — The fund may purchase securities subject to restrictions on resale. Restricted securities may only be sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), or in a registered public offering. Restricted securities held by the fund are often eligible for resale under Rule 144A, an exemption under the 1933 Act allowing for resales to “Qualified Institutional Buyers.” Where registration is required, the holder of a registered security may be obligated to pay all or part of the registration expense and a considerable period may elapse between the time it decides to seek registration and the time it may be permitted to sell a security under an effective registration statement. Difficulty in selling such securities may result in a loss to the fund or cause it to incur additional administrative costs.
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Some fund holdings (including some restricted securities) may be deemed illiquid if the fund expects that a reasonable portion of the holding cannot be sold in seven calendar days or less without the sale significantly changing the market value of the investment. The determination of whether a holding is considered illiquid is made by the fund’s adviser under a liquidity risk management program adopted by the fund’s board and administered by the fund’s adviser. The fund may incur significant additional costs in disposing of illiquid securities.
Maturity — There are no restrictions on the maturity composition of the portfolio. The fund invests in debt securities with a wide range of maturities. Under normal market conditions, longer term securities yield more than shorter term securities, but are subject to greater price fluctuations.
Derivatives — In pursuing its investment objective(s), the fund may invest in derivative instruments. A derivative is a financial instrument, the value of which depends on, or is otherwise derived from, another underlying variable. Most often, the variable underlying a derivative is the price of a traded asset, such as a traditional cash security (e.g., a stock or bond), a currency or a commodity; however, the value of a derivative can be dependent on almost any variable, from the level of an index or a specified rate to the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of a credit event with respect to a specified reference asset. The fund may take positions in futures contracts and options on futures contracts and swaps, each of which is a derivative instrument described in greater detail below.
Derivative instruments may be distinguished by the manner in which they trade: some are standardized instruments that trade on an organized exchange while others are individually negotiated and traded in the over-the-counter (“OTC”) market. Derivatives also range broadly in complexity, from simple derivatives to more complex instruments. As a general matter, however, all derivatives — regardless of the manner in which they trade or their relative complexities — entail certain risks, some of which are different from, and potentially greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in traditional cash securities.
As is the case with traditional cash securities, derivative instruments are generally subject to counterparty credit risk; however, in some cases, derivatives may pose counterparty risks greater than those posed by cash securities. The use of derivatives involves the risk that a loss may be sustained by the fund as a result of the failure of the fund’s counterparty to make required payments or otherwise to comply with its contractual obligations. For some derivatives, though, the value of — and, in effect, the return on — the instrument may be dependent on both the individual credit of the fund’s counterparty and on the credit of one or more issuers of any underlying assets. If the fund does not correctly evaluate the creditworthiness of its counterparty and, where applicable, of issuers of any underlying reference assets, the fund’s investment in a derivative instrument may result in losses. Further, if a fund’s counterparty were to default on its obligations, the fund’s contractual remedies against such counterparty may be subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws, which could affect the fund’s rights as a creditor and delay or impede the fund’s ability to receive the net amount of payments that it is contractually entitled to receive. Derivative instruments are subject to additional risks, including operational risk (such as documentation issues, settlement issues and systems failures) and legal risk (such as insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, and issues with the legality or enforceability of a contract).
The value of some derivative instruments in which the fund invests may be particularly sensitive to changes in prevailing interest rates, currency exchange rates or other market conditions. Like the fund’s other investments, the ability of the fund to successfully utilize such derivative instruments may depend in part upon the ability of the fund’s investment adviser to accurately forecast interest rates and other economic factors. The success of the fund’s derivative investment strategy will also depend on the investment adviser’s ability to assess and predict the impact of market or economic developments on the derivative instruments in which the fund invests, in some cases without having had the benefit of observing the performance of a derivative under all possible market conditions. If the investment adviser incorrectly forecasts such factors and has taken positions in derivative
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instruments contrary to prevailing market trends, or if the investment adviser incorrectly predicts the impact of developments on a derivative instrument, the fund could suffer losses.
Certain derivatives may also be subject to liquidity and valuation risks. The potential lack of a liquid secondary market for a derivative (and, particularly, for an OTC derivative, including swaps and OTC options) may cause difficulty in valuing or selling the instrument. If a derivative transaction is particularly large or if the relevant market is illiquid, as is often the case with many privately-negotiated OTC derivatives, the fund may not be able to initiate a transaction or to liquidate a position at an advantageous time or price. Particularly when there is no liquid secondary market for the fund’s derivative positions, the fund may encounter difficulty in valuing such illiquid positions. The value of a derivative instrument does not always correlate perfectly with its underlying asset, rate or index, and many derivatives, and OTC derivatives in particular, are complex and often valued subjectively. Improper valuations can result in increased cash payment requirements to counterparties or a loss of value to the fund.
Because certain derivative instruments may obligate the fund to make one or more potential future payments, which could significantly exceed the value of the fund’s initial investments in such instruments, derivative instruments may also have a leveraging effect on the fund’s portfolio. Certain derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, irrespective of the size of the fund’s investment in the instrument. When a fund leverages its portfolio, investments in that fund will tend to be more volatile, resulting in larger gains or losses in response to market changes.
The fund’s compliance with the SEC’s rule applicable to the fund’s use of derivatives may limit the ability of the fund to use derivatives as part of its investment strategy. The rule requires that a fund that uses derivatives in more than a limited manner, which is currently the case for the fund, adopt a derivatives risk management program, appoint a derivatives risk manager and comply with an outer limit on leverage based on value at risk, or “VaR”. VaR is an estimate of an instrument’s or portfolio’s potential losses over a given time horizon (i.e., 20 trading days) and at a specified confidence level (i.e., 99%). VaR will not provide, and is not intended to provide, an estimate of an instrument’s or portfolio’s maximum potential loss amount. For example, a VaR of 5% with a specified confidence level of 99% would mean that a VaR model estimates that 99% of the time a fund would not be expected to lose more than 5% of its total assets over the given time period. However, 1% of the time, the fund would be expected to lose more than 5% of its total assets, and in such a scenario the VaR model does not provide an estimate of the extent of this potential loss. The derivatives rule may not be effective in limiting the fund’s risk of loss, as measurements of VaR rely on historical data and may not accurately measure the degree of risk reflected in the fund’s derivatives or other investments. A fund is generally required to satisfy the rule’s outer limit on leverage by limiting the fund’s VaR to 200% of the VaR of a designated reference portfolio that does not utilize derivatives each business day. If a fund does not have an appropriate designated reference portfolio in light of the fund’s investments, investment objectives and strategy, a fund must satisfy the rule’s outer limit on leverage by limiting the fund’s VaR to 20% of the value of the fund’s net assets each business day.
Options — The fund may invest in option contracts, including options on futures and options on currencies, as described in more detail under “Futures and Options on Futures” and “Currency Transactions,” respectively. An option contract is a contract that gives the holder of the option, in return for a premium payment, the right to buy from (in the case of a call) or sell to (in the case of a put) the writer of the option the reference instrument underlying the option (or the cash value of the instrument underlying the option) at a specified exercise price. The writer of an option on a security has the obligation, upon exercise of the option, to cash settle or deliver the underlying currency or instrument upon payment of the exercise price (in the case of a call) or to cash settle or take delivery of the underlying currency or instrument and pay the exercise price (in the case of a put).
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By purchasing a put option, the fund obtains the right (but not the obligation) to sell the currency or instrument underlying the option (or to deliver the cash value of the instrument underlying the option) at a specified exercise price, which is also referred to as the strike price. In return for this right, the fund pays the current market price, or the option premium, for the option. The fund may terminate its position in a put option by allowing the option to expire or by exercising the option. If the option is allowed to expire, the fund will lose the entire amount of the option premium paid. If the option is exercised, the fund completes the sale of the underlying instrument (or cash settles) at the strike price. The fund may also terminate a put option position by entering into opposing close-out transactions in advance of the option expiration date.
As a buyer of a put option, the fund can expect to realize a gain if the price of the underlying currency or instrument falls substantially. However, if the price of the underlying currency or instrument does not fall enough to offset the cost of purchasing the option, the fund can expect to suffer a loss, albeit a loss limited to the amount of the option premium plus any applicable transaction costs.
The features of call options are essentially the same as those of put options, except that the purchaser of a call option obtains the right (but not the obligation) to purchase, rather than sell, the underlying currency or instrument (or cash settle) at the specified strike price. The buyer of a call option typically attempts to participate in potential price increases of the underlying currency or instrument with risk limited to the cost of the option if the price of the underlying currency or instrument falls. At the same time, the call option buyer can expect to suffer a loss if the price of the underlying currency or instrument does not rise sufficiently to offset the cost of the option.
The writer of a put or call option takes the opposite side of the transaction from the option purchaser. In return for receipt of the option premium, the writer assumes the obligation to pay or receive the strike price for the option’s underlying currency or instrument if the other party to the option chooses to exercise it. The writer may seek to terminate a position in a put option before exercise by entering into opposing close-out transactions in advance of the option expiration date. If the market for the relevant put option is not liquid, however, the writer must be prepared to pay the strike price while the option is outstanding, regardless of price changes.
If the price of the underlying currency or instrument rises, a put writer would generally expect to profit, although its gain would be limited to the amount of the premium it received. If the price of the underlying currency or instrument remains the same over time, it is likely that the writer would also profit because it should be able to close out the option at a lower price. This is because an option’s value decreases with time as the currency or instrument approaches its expiration date. If the price of the underlying currency or instrument falls, the put writer would expect to suffer a loss. This loss should be less than the loss from purchasing the underlying currency or instrument directly, however, because the premium received for writing the option should mitigate the effects of the decline.
Writing a call option obligates the writer to, upon exercise of the option, deliver the option’s underlying currency or instrument in return for the strike price or to make a net cash settlement payment, as applicable. The characteristics of writing call options are similar to those of writing put options, except that writing call options is generally a profitable strategy if prices remain the same or fall. The potential gain for the option seller in such a transaction would be capped at the premium received.
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Several risks are associated with transactions in options on currencies, securities and other instruments (referred to as the “underlying instruments”). For example, there may be significant differences between the underlying instruments and options markets that could result in an imperfect correlation between these markets, which could cause a given transaction not to achieve its objectives. When a put or call option on a particular underlying instrument is purchased to hedge against price movements in a related underlying instrument, for example, the price to close out the put or call option may move more or less than the price of the related underlying instrument.
Options prices can diverge from the prices of their underlying instruments for a number of reasons. Options prices are affected by such factors as current and anticipated short-term interest rates, changes in the volatility of the underlying instrument, and the time remaining until expiration of the contract, which may not affect security prices in the same way. Imperfect correlation may also result from differing levels of demand in the options markets and the markets for the underlying instruments, from structural differences in how options and underlying instruments are traded, or from imposition of daily price fluctuation limits or trading halts. The fund may purchase or sell options contracts with a greater or lesser value than the underlying instruments it wishes to hedge or intends to purchase in order to attempt to compensate for differences in volatility between the contract and the underlying instruments, although this may not be successful. If price changes in the fund’s options positions are less correlated with its other investments, the positions may fail to produce anticipated gains or result in losses that are not offset by gains in other investments.
There is no assurance that a liquid market will exist for any particular options contract at any particular time. Options may have relatively low trading volumes and liquidity if their strike prices are not close to the current prices of the underlying instruments. In addition, exchanges may establish daily price fluctuation limits for exchange-traded options contracts and may halt trading if a contract’s price moves upward or downward more than the limit in a given day. On volatile trading days when the price fluctuation limit is reached or a trading halt is imposed, it may be impossible to enter into new positions or to close out existing positions. If the market for a contract is not liquid because of price fluctuation limits or otherwise, it could prevent prompt liquidation of unfavorable positions and could potentially require the fund to hold a position until delivery or expiration regardless of changes in its value.
Combined positions involve purchasing and writing options in combination with each other, or in combination with futures or forward contracts, in order to adjust the risk and return profile of the fund’s overall position. For example, purchasing a put option and writing a call option on the same underlying instrument could construct a combined position with risk and return characteristics similar to selling a futures contract (but with leverage embedded). Another possible combined position would involve writing a call option at one strike price and buying a call option at a lower strike price to reduce the risk of the written call option in the event of a substantial price increase. Because such combined options positions involve multiple trades, they result in higher transaction costs and may be more difficult to open and close out.
Futures and options on futures — The fund may enter into futures contracts and options on futures contracts to seek to manage the fund’s interest rate sensitivity by increasing or decreasing the duration of the fund or a portion of the fund’s portfolio. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a security or other financial instrument (the “reference asset”) for a set price on a future date. An option on a futures contract gives the holder of the option the right to buy or sell a position in a futures contract from or to the writer of the option, at a specified price on or before the specified expiration date. Futures contracts and options on futures contracts are standardized, exchange-traded contracts, and, when such contracts are bought or sold, the fund will incur brokerage fees and will be required to maintain margin deposits.
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Unlike when the fund purchases or sells a security, such as a stock or bond, no price is paid or received by the fund upon the purchase or sale of a futures contract. When the fund enters into a futures contract, the fund is required to deposit with its futures broker, known as a futures commission merchant (“FCM”), a specified amount of liquid assets in a segregated account in the name of the FCM at the applicable derivatives clearinghouse or exchange. This amount, known as initial margin, is set by the futures exchange on which the contract is traded and may be significantly modified during the term of the contract. The initial margin is in the nature of a performance bond or good faith deposit on the futures contract, which is returned to the fund upon termination of the contract, assuming all contractual obligations have been satisfied. Additionally, on a daily basis, the fund pays or receives cash, or variation margin, equal to the daily change in value of the futures contract. Variation margin does not represent a borrowing or loan by the fund but is instead a settlement between the fund and the FCM of the amount one party would owe the other if the futures contract expired. In computing daily net asset value, the fund will mark-to-market its open futures positions. A fund is also required to deposit and maintain margin with an FCM with respect to put and call options on futures contracts written by the fund. Such margin deposits will vary depending on the nature of the underlying futures contract (and related initial margin requirements), the current market value of the option, and other futures positions held by the fund. In the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of an FCM that holds margin on behalf of the fund, the fund may be entitled to return of margin owed to it only in proportion to the amount received by the FCM’s other customers, potentially resulting in losses to the fund. An event of bankruptcy or insolvency at a clearinghouse or exchange holding initial margin could also result in losses for the fund.
When the fund invests in futures contracts and options on futures contracts and deposits margin with an FCM, the fund becomes subject to so-called “fellow customer” risk – that is, the risk that one or more customers of the FCM will default on their obligations and that the resulting losses will be so great that the FCM will default on its obligations and margin posted by one customer, such as the fund, will be used to cover a loss caused by a different defaulting customer. Applicable Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) rules generally prohibit the use of one customer’s funds to meet the obligations of another customer and limit the ability of an FCM to use margin posed by non-defaulting customers to satisfy losses caused by defaulting customers. As a general matter, an FCM is required to use its own funds to meet a defaulting customer’s obligations. While a customer’s loss would likely need to be substantial before non-defaulting customers would be exposed to loss on account of fellow customer risk, applicable CFTC rules nevertheless permit the commingling of margin and do not limit the mutualization of customer losses from investment losses, custodial failures, fraud or other causes. If the loss is so great that, notwithstanding the application of an FCM’s own funds, there is a shortfall in the amount of customer funds required to be held in segregation, the FCM could default and be placed into bankruptcy. Under these circumstances, bankruptcy law provides that non-defaulting customers will share pro rata in any shortfall. A shortfall in customer segregated funds may also make the transfer of the accounts of non-defaulting customers to another FCM more difficult.
Although certain futures contracts, by their terms, require actual future delivery of and payment for the reference asset, in practice, most futures contracts are usually closed out before the delivery date by offsetting purchases or sales of matching futures contracts. Closing out an open futures contract purchase or sale is effected by entering into an offsetting futures contract sale or purchase, respectively, for the same aggregate amount of the identical reference asset and the same delivery date. If the offsetting purchase price is less than the original sale price (in each case taking into account transaction costs, including brokerage fees), the fund realizes a gain; if it is more, the fund realizes a loss. Conversely, if the offsetting sale price is more than the original purchase price (in each case taking into account transaction costs, including brokerage fees), the fund realizes a gain; if it is less, the fund realizes a loss.
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The fund may purchase and write call and put options on futures. A futures option gives the holder the right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a long position (call) or short position (put) in a futures contract at a specified exercise price at any time during the period of the option. Upon exercise of a call option, the holder acquires a long position in the futures contract, and the writer is assigned the opposite short position. The opposite is true in the case of a put option. A call option is “in the money” if the value of the futures contract that is the subject of the option exceeds the exercise price. A put option is “in the money” if the exercise price exceeds the value of the futures contract that is the subject of the option. See also “Options” above for a general description of investment techniques and risks relating to options.
The value of a futures contract tends to increase and decrease in tandem with the value of its underlying reference asset. Purchasing futures contracts will, therefore, tend to increase the fund’s exposure to positive and negative price fluctuations in the reference asset, much as if the fund had purchased the reference asset directly. When the fund sells a futures contract, by contrast, the value of its futures position will tend to move in a direction contrary to the market for the reference asset. Accordingly, selling futures contracts will tend to offset both positive and negative market price changes, much as if the reference asset had been sold.
There is no assurance that a liquid market will exist for any particular futures or futures options contract at any particular time. Futures exchanges may establish daily price fluctuation limits for futures contracts and may halt trading if a contract’s price moves upward or downward more than the limit in a given day. On volatile trading days, when the price fluctuation limit is reached and a trading halt is imposed, it may be impossible to enter into new positions or close out existing positions. If the market for a futures contract is not liquid because of price fluctuation limits or other market conditions, the fund may be prevented from promptly liquidating unfavorable futures positions and the fund could be required to continue to hold a position until delivery or expiration regardless of changes in its value, potentially subjecting the fund to substantial losses. Additionally, the fund may not be able to take other actions or enter into other transactions to limit or reduce its exposure to the position. Under such circumstances, the fund would remain obligated to meet margin requirements until the position is cleared. As a result, the fund’s access to other assets posted as margin for its futures positions could also be impaired.
Although futures exchanges generally operate similarly in the United States and abroad, foreign futures exchanges may follow trading, settlement and margin procedures that are different than those followed by futures exchanges in the United States. Futures and futures options contracts traded outside the United States may not involve a clearing mechanism or related guarantees and may involve greater risk of loss than U.S.-traded contracts, including potentially greater risk of losses due to insolvency of a futures broker, exchange member, or other party that may owe initial or variation margin to the fund. Margin requirements on foreign futures exchanges may be different than those of futures exchanges in the United States, and, because initial and variation margin payments may be measured in foreign currency, a futures or futures options contract traded outside the United States may also involve the risk of foreign currency fluctuations.
Swaps — The fund may enter into swaps, which are two-party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for a specified time period. In a typical swap, two parties agree to exchange the returns earned or realized from one or more underlying assets or rates of return.
Swaps can be traded on a swap execution facility (“SEF”) and cleared through a central clearinghouse (cleared), traded OTC and cleared, or traded bilaterally and not cleared. For example, standardized interest rate swaps and standardized credit default swap indices are traded on SEFs and cleared. Other forms of swaps, such as total return swaps and certain types
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of interest rate swaps and credit default swap indices are entered into on a bilateral basis. Because clearing interposes a central clearinghouse as the ultimate counterparty to each participant’s swap, and margin is required to be exchanged under the rules of the clearinghouse, central clearing is intended to decrease (but not eliminate) counterparty risk relative to uncleared bilateral swaps. To the extent the fund enters into bilaterally negotiated swaps, the fund will enter into swaps only with counterparties that meet certain credit standards and have agreed to specific collateralization procedures; however, if the counterparty’s creditworthiness deteriorates rapidly and the counterparty defaults on its obligations under the swap or declares bankruptcy, the fund may lose any amount it expected to receive from the counterparty. In addition, bilateral swaps are subject to certain regulatory margin requirements that mandate the posting and collection of minimum margin amounts, which may result in the fund and its counterparties posting higher margin amounts for bilateral swaps than would otherwise be the case.
The term of a swap can be days, months or years and certain swaps may be less liquid than others. If a swap is particularly large or if the relevant market is illiquid, it may not be possible to initiate a transaction or liquidate a position at an advantageous time or price, which may result in significant losses.
Swaps can take different forms. The fund may enter into the following types of swaps:
Interest rate swaps — The fund may enter into interest rate swaps to seek to manage the interest rate sensitivity of the fund by increasing or decreasing the duration of the fund or a portion of the fund’s portfolio. An interest rate swap is an agreement between two parties to exchange or swap payments based on changes in an interest rate or rates. Typically, one interest rate is fixed and the other is variable based on a designated short-term interest rate such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), prime rate or other benchmark, or on an inflation index such as the U.S. Consumer Price Index (which is a measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services and measures changes in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and the rate of inflation). In other types of interest rate swaps, known as basis swaps, the parties agree to swap variable interest rates based on different designated short-term interest rates. Interest rate swaps generally do not involve the delivery of securities or other principal amounts. Rather, cash payments are exchanged by the parties based on the application of the designated interest rates to a notional amount, which is the predetermined dollar principal of the trade upon which payment obligations are computed. Accordingly, the fund’s current obligation or right under the swap is generally equal to the net amount to be paid or received under the swap based on the relative value of the position held by each party.
In addition to the risks of entering into swaps discussed above, the use of interest rate swaps involves the risk of losses if interest rates change.
Total return swaps — The fund may enter into total return swaps in order to gain exposure to a market or security without owning or taking physical custody of such security or investing directly in such market. A total return swap is an agreement in which one party agrees to make periodic payments to the other party based on the change in market value of the assets underlying the contract during the specified term in exchange for periodic payments based on a fixed or variable interest rate or the total return from other underlying assets. The asset underlying the contract may be a single security, a basket of securities or a securities index. Like other swaps, the use of total return swaps involves certain risks, including potential losses if a counterparty defaults on its payment obligations to the fund or the underlying assets do not perform as anticipated. There is no guarantee that entering into a total return swap will deliver
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returns in excess of the interest costs involved and, accordingly, the fund’s performance may be lower than would have been achieved by investing directly in the underlying assets.
Credit default swap indices — In order to assume exposure to a diversified portfolio of credits or to hedge against existing credit risks, the fund may invest in credit default swap indices, including CDX and iTraxx indices (collectively referred to as “CDSIs”). Additionally, in order to assume exposure to the commercial mortgage-backed security sector or to hedge against existing credit and market risks within such sector, the fund may invest in mortgage-backed security credit default swap indices, including the CMBX index (collectively referred to as “CMBXIs”).
A CDSI is based on a portfolio of credit default swaps with similar characteristics, such as credit default swaps on high-yield bonds. A CMBXI is a tradeable index referencing a basket of commercial mortgage-backed securities. In a typical CDSI or CMBXI transaction, one party — the protection buyer — is obligated to pay the other party — the protection seller — a stream of periodic payments over the term of the contract. If a credit event, such as a default or restructuring, occurs with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations, the protection seller must pay the protection buyer the loss on those credits. Also, if a restructuring credit event occurs in an iTraxx index, the fund as protection buyer may receive a single name credit default swap (“CDS”) representing the relevant constituent.
The fund may enter into a CDSI or CMBXI transaction as either protection buyer or protection seller. If the fund is a protection buyer, it would pay the counterparty a periodic stream of payments over the term of the contract and would not recover any of those payments if no credit events were to occur with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations. However, if a credit event did occur, the fund, as a protection buyer, would have the right to deliver the referenced debt obligations or a specified amount of cash, depending on the terms of the applicable agreement, and to receive the par value of such debt obligations from the counterparty protection seller. As a protection seller, the fund would receive fixed payments throughout the term of the contract if no credit events were to occur with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations. If a credit event were to occur, however, the value of any deliverable obligation received by the fund, coupled with the periodic payments previously received by the fund, may be less than the full notional value that the fund, as a protection seller, pays to the counterparty protection buyer, effectively resulting in a loss of value to the fund. Furthermore, as a protection seller, the fund would effectively add leverage to its portfolio because it would have investment exposure to the notional amount of the swap.
The use of CDSI or CMBXI, like all other swaps, is subject to certain risks, including the risk that the fund’s counterparty will default on its obligations. If such a default were to occur, any contractual remedies that the fund might have may be subject to applicable bankruptcy laws, which could delay or limit the fund’s recovery. Thus, if the fund’s counterparty to a CDSI or CMBXI transaction defaults on its obligation to make payments thereunder, the fund may lose such payments altogether or collect only a portion thereof, which collection could involve substantial costs or delays.
Additionally, when the fund invests in a CDSI or CMBXI as a protection seller, the fund will be indirectly exposed to the creditworthiness of issuers of the underlying reference obligations in the index. If the investment adviser to the fund does not correctly evaluate the creditworthiness of issuers of the underlying instruments on which the CDSI or CMBXI is based, the investment could result in losses to the fund.
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Cybersecurity risks — With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet to conduct business, the fund has become potentially more susceptible to operational and information security risks through breaches in cybersecurity. In general, a breach in cybersecurity can result from either a deliberate attack or an unintentional event. Cybersecurity breaches may involve, among other things, “ransomware” attacks, injection of computer viruses or malicious software code, or the use of vulnerabilities in code to gain unauthorized access to digital information systems, networks or devices that are used directly or indirectly by the fund or its service providers through “hacking” or other means. Cybersecurity risks also include the risk of losses of service resulting from external attacks that do not require unauthorized access to the fund’s systems, networks or devices. For example, denial-of-service attacks on the investment adviser’s or an affiliate’s website could effectively render the fund’s network services unavailable to fund shareholders and other intended end-users. Any such cybersecurity breaches or losses of service may, among other things, cause the fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption or lose operational capacity, or may result in the misappropriation, unauthorized release or other misuse of the fund’s assets or sensitive information (including shareholder personal information or other confidential information), the inability of fund shareholders to transact business, or the destruction of the fund’s physical infrastructure, equipment or operating systems. These, in turn, could cause the fund to violate applicable privacy and other laws and incur or suffer regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional costs (including compliance costs) associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss. While the fund and its investment adviser have established business continuity plans and risk management systems designed to prevent or reduce the impact of cybersecurity attacks, there are inherent limitations in such plans and systems due in part to the ever-changing nature of technology and cybersecurity attack tactics, and there is a possibility that certain risks have not been adequately identified or prepared for.
In addition, cybersecurity failures by or breaches of the fund’s third-party service providers (including, but not limited to, the fund’s investment adviser, transfer agent, custodian, administrators and other financial intermediaries) may disrupt the business operations of the service providers and of the fund, potentially resulting in financial losses, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business with the fund and of the fund to process transactions, the inability of the fund to calculate its net asset value, violations of applicable privacy and other laws, rules and regulations, regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensatory costs and/or additional compliance costs associated with implementation of any corrective measures. The fund and its shareholders could be negatively impacted as a result of any such cybersecurity breaches, and there can be no assurance that the fund will not suffer losses relating to cybersecurity attacks or other informational security breaches affecting the fund’s third-party service providers in the future, particularly as the fund cannot control any cybersecurity plans or systems implemented by such service providers.
Cybersecurity risks may also impact issuers of securities in which the fund invests, which may cause the fund’s investments in such issuers to lose value.
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Inflation/Deflation risk — The fund may be subject to inflation and deflation risk. Inflation risk is the risk that the present value of assets or income from investments will be less in the future as inflation decreases the value of money. As inflation increases, the present value of the fund‘s assets can decline. Deflation risk is the risk that prices throughout the economy decline over time. Deflation or inflation may have an adverse effect on the creditworthiness of issuers and may make issuer default more likely, which may result in a decline in the value of the fund‘s assets.
Interfund borrowing and lending — Pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the fund may lend money to, and borrow money from, other funds advised by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates. The fund will borrow through the program only when the costs are equal to or lower than the costs of bank loans. The fund will lend through the program only when the returns are higher than those available from an investment in repurchase agreements. Interfund loans and borrowings normally extend overnight, but can have a maximum duration of seven days. Loans may be called on one day's notice. The fund may have to borrow from a bank at a higher interest rate if an interfund loan is called or not renewed. Any delay in repayment to a lending fund could result in a lost investment opportunity or additional borrowing costs.
Affiliated investment companies — The fund may purchase shares of certain other investment companies managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates (“Central Funds”). The risks of owning another investment company are similar to the risks of investing directly in the securities in which that investment company invests. Investments in other investment companies could allow the fund to obtain the benefits of a more diversified portfolio than might otherwise be available through direct investments in a particular asset class, and will subject the fund to the risks associated with the particular asset class or asset classes in which an underlying fund invests. However, an investment company may not achieve its investment objective or execute its investment strategy effectively, which may adversely affect the fund’s performance. Any investment in another investment company will be consistent with the fund’s objective(s) and applicable regulatory limitations. Central Funds do not charge management fees. As a result, the fund does not bear additional management fees when investing in Central Funds, but the fund does bear its proportionate share of Central Fund expenses.
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Portfolio turnover — Portfolio changes will be made without regard to the length of time particular investments may have been held. Short-term trading profits are not the fund’s objective, and changes in its investments are generally accomplished gradually, though short-term transactions may occasionally be made. Higher portfolio turnover may involve correspondingly greater transaction costs in the form of dealer spreads or brokerage commissions. It may also result in the realization of net capital gains, which are taxable when distributed to shareholders, unless the shareholder is exempt from taxation or his or her account is tax-favored.
Fixed income securities are generally traded on a net basis and usually neither brokerage commissions nor transfer taxes are involved. Transaction costs are usually reflected in the spread between the bid and asked price.
The fund’s portfolio turnover rates for the fiscal years ended May 31, 2025 and 2024 were 205% and 151%, respectively. Variations in turnover rates are due to changes in trading activity during the period. The portfolio turnover rate would equal 100% if each security in a fund’s portfolio were replaced once per year.
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Fund policies
All percentage limitations in the following fund policies are considered at the time securities are purchased and are based on the fund’s net assets unless otherwise indicated. None of the following policies involving a maximum percentage of assets will be considered violated unless the excess occurs immediately after, and is caused by, an acquisition by the fund. In managing the fund, the fund’s investment adviser may apply more restrictive policies than those listed below.
Fundamental policies — The fund has adopted the following policies, which may not be changed without approval by holders of a majority of its outstanding shares. Such majority is currently defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as the vote of the lesser of (a) 67% or more of the voting securities present at a shareholder meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities are present in person or by proxy, or (b) more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities.
1. Except as permitted by (i) the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, or other successor law governing the regulation of registered investment companies, or interpretations or modifications thereof by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), SEC staff or other authority of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) exemptive or other relief or permission from the SEC, SEC staff or other authority of competent jurisdiction, the fund may not:
a. Borrow money;
b. Issue senior securities;
c. Underwrite the securities of other issuers;
d. Purchase or sell real estate or commodities;
e. Make loans; or
f. Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a result of such purchase, the fund’s investments would be concentrated in any particular industry.
2. The fund may not invest in companies for the purpose of exercising control or management.
Nonfundamental policies — The following policy may be changed without shareholder approval:
The fund may not acquire securities of open-end investment companies or unit investment trusts registered under the 1940 Act in reliance on Sections 12(d)(1)(F) or 12(d)(1)(G) of the 1940 Act.
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Additional information about the fund‘s policies — The information below is not part of the fund’s fundamental or nonfundamental policies. This information is intended to provide a summary of what is currently required or permitted by the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, or by the interpretive guidance thereof by the SEC or SEC staff, for particular fundamental policies of the fund. Information is also provided regarding the fund’s current intention with respect to certain investment practices permitted by the 1940 Act.
For purposes of fundamental policy 1a, the fund may borrow money in amounts of up to 33-1/3% of its total assets from banks for any purpose. Additionally, the fund may borrow up to 5% of its total assets from banks or other lenders for temporary purposes (a loan is presumed to be for temporary purposes if it is repaid within 60 days and is not extended or renewed). The percentage limitations in this policy are considered at the time of borrowing and thereafter.
For purposes of fundamental policies 1a and 1e, the fund may borrow money from, or loan money to, other funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates to the extent permitted by applicable law and an exemptive order issued by the SEC.
For purposes of fundamental policy 1b, a senior security does not include any promissory note or evidence of indebtedness if such loan is for temporary purposes only and in an amount not exceeding 5% of the value of the total assets of the fund at the time the loan is made (a loan is presumed to be for temporary purposes if it is repaid within 60 days and is not extended or renewed). Further, the fund is permitted to enter into derivatives and certain other transactions, notwithstanding the prohibitions and restrictions on the issuance of senior securities under the 1940 Act, in accordance with current SEC rules and interpretations.
For purposes of fundamental policy 1c, the policy will not apply to the fund to the extent the fund may be deemed an underwriter within the meaning of the 1933 Act in connection with the purchase and sale of fund portfolio securities in the ordinary course of pursuing its investment objective(s) and strategies.
For purposes of fundamental policy 1e, the fund may not lend more than 33-1/3% of its total assets, provided that this limitation shall not apply to the fund’s purchase of debt obligations.
For purposes of fundamental policy 1f, the fund may not invest more than 25% of its total assets in the securities of issuers in a particular industry. This policy does not apply to investments in securities of the U.S. government, its agencies or U.S. government sponsored enterprises or repurchase agreements with respect thereto. For purposes of this policy, with respect to a private activity municipal bond the principal and interest payments of which are derived primarily from the assets and revenues of a non-governmental entity, the fund will look to such non-governmental entity to determine the industry to which the investment should be allocated.
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Management of the fund
Board of trustees and officers
Independent trustees1
The fund’s nominating and governance committee and board select independent trustees with a view toward constituting a board that, as a body, possesses the qualifications, skills, attributes and experience to appropriately oversee the actions of the fund’s service providers, decide upon matters of general policy and represent the long-term interests of fund shareholders. In doing so, they consider the qualifications, skills, attributes and experience of the current board members, with a view toward maintaining a board that is diverse in viewpoint, experience, education and skills.
The fund seeks independent trustees who have high ethical standards and the highest levels of integrity and commitment, who have inquiring and independent minds, mature judgment, good communication skills, and other complementary personal qualifications and skills that enable them to function effectively in the context of the fund’s board and committee structure and who have the ability and willingness to dedicate sufficient time to effectively fulfill their duties and responsibilities.
Each independent trustee has a significant record of accomplishments in governance, business, not-for-profit organizations, government service, academia, law, accounting or other professions. Although no single list could identify all experience upon which the fund’s independent trustees draw in connection with their service, the following table summarizes key experience for each independent trustee. These references to the qualifications, attributes and skills of the trustees are pursuant to the disclosure requirements of the SEC, and shall not be deemed to impose any greater responsibility or liability on any trustee or the board as a whole. Notwithstanding the accomplishments listed below, none of the independent trustees is considered an “expert” within the meaning of the federal securities laws with respect to information in the fund’s registration statement.
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Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as a trustee2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years |
Number of portfolios in fund complex overseen by trustee |
Other directorships3 held by trustee during the past five years |
Other relevant experience |
Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, 1957 Trustee (2021) |
Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Health San Antonio; Trustee, Ford Foundation; Clayton Research Scholar, Clayton Foundation for Biomedical Research | 99 | None |
· Corporate board experience · Service on boards of community and nonprofit organizations · MD |
Nariman Farvardin, 1956 Trustee (2021) |
President, Stevens Institute of Technology | 104 | None |
· Senior management experience, educational institution · Corporate board experience · Professor, electrical and computer engineering · Service on advisory boards and councils for educational, nonprofit and governmental organizations · MS, PhD, electrical engineering |
Jennifer C. Feikin, 1968 Trustee (2022) |
Independent corporate board member; previously held positions at Google, AOL, 20th Century Fox and McKinsey & Company | 124 | Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. |
· Senior corporate management experience · Corporate board experience · Business consulting experience · Service on advisory and trustee boards for charitable and nonprofit organizations · JD |
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Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as a trustee2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years |
Number of portfolios in fund complex overseen by trustee |
Other directorships3 held by trustee during the past five years |
Other relevant experience |
Leslie Stone Heisz, 1961 Trustee (2022) |
Former Managing Director, Lazard (retired, 2010); Director, Kaiser Permanente (California public benefit corporation); former Lecturer, UCLA Anderson School of Management | 124 |
Edwards Lifesciences; Ingram Micro Holding Corporation (information technology products and services) Former director of Public Storage, Inc. (until 2024) |
· Senior corporate management experience, investment banking · Business consulting experience · Corporate board experience · Service on advisory and trustee boards for charitable and nonprofit organizations · MBA |
Mary Davis Holt, 1950 Trustee (2021) |
Principal, Mary Davis Holt Enterprises, LLC (leadership development consulting); former COO, Time Life Inc. (1993-2003) | 100 | None |
· Service as chief operations officer, global media company · Senior corporate management experience · Corporate board experience · Service on advisory and trustee boards for educational, business and nonprofit organizations · MBA |
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Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as a trustee2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years |
Number of portfolios in fund complex overseen by trustee |
Other directorships3 held by trustee during the past five years |
Other relevant experience |
Merit E. Janow, 1958 Trustee (2021) |
Dean Emerita and Professor of Practice, International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs | 111 |
Aptiv (autonomous and green vehicle technology); Mastercard Incorporated Former director of Trimble Inc. (software, hardware and services technology) (until 2021) |
· Service with Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Department of Justice · Corporate board experience · Service on advisory and trustee boards for charitable, educational and nonprofit organizations · Experience as corporate lawyer · JD |
Margaret Spellings, 1957 Chair of the Board (Independent and Non-Executive) (2021) |
President and CEO, Bipartisan Policy Center; former President and CEO, Texas 2036 | 104 | None |
· Former U.S. Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education · Former Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, The White House · Former senior advisor to the Governor of Texas · Service on advisory and trustee boards for charitable and nonprofit organizations |
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Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as a trustee2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years |
Number of portfolios in fund complex overseen by trustee |
Other directorships3 held by trustee during the past five years |
Other relevant experience |
Alexandra Trower, 1964 Trustee (2021) |
Former Executive Vice President, Global Communications and Corporate Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies | 99 | None |
· Service on trustee boards for charitable and nonprofit organizations · Senior corporate management experience · Branding |
Paul S. Williams, 1959 Trustee (2021) |
Former Partner/Managing Director, Major, Lindsey & Africa (executive recruiting firm) (2005 – 2018) | 99 |
Public Storage, Inc. Former director of Romeo Power, Inc. (manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles) (until 2022); Compass Minerals, Inc. (producer of salt and specialty fertilizers) (until 2023); Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (aircraft leasing and air cargo transportation) (until 2025) |
· Senior corporate management experience · Corporate board experience · Corporate governance experience · Service on trustee boards for charitable and educational nonprofit organizations · Securities law expertise · JD |
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Interested trustee(s)4,5
Interested trustees have similar qualifications, skills and attributes as the independent trustees. Interested trustees are senior executive officers and/or directors of Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates. Such management roles with the fund‘s service providers also permit the interested trustees to make a significant contribution to the fund’s board.
Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as a trustee/officer2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and positions held with affiliated entities or the distributor of the fund |
Number of portfolios in fund complex overseen by trustee |
Other directorships3 held by trustee during the past five years |
Michael C. Gitlin, 1970 Trustee (2021) |
Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors, Capital Research and Management Company; President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, The Capital Group Companies, Inc.*; Director, Capital Research and Management Company | 99 | None |
Karl J. Zeile, 1966 Trustee (2021) |
Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors, Capital Research and Management Company | 25 | None |
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Other officers5
Name, year of birth and position with fund (year first elected as an officer2) |
Principal occupation(s) during the past five years and positions held with affiliated entities or the distributor of the fund |
Karen Choi, 1973 President (2021) |
Partner – Capital Fixed Income Investors, Capital Research and Management Company |
Kristine M. Nishiyama, 1970 Principal Executive Officer (2021) |
Senior Vice President – Legal and Compliance Group, Capital Research and Management Company; Chair, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director, Capital Bank and Trust Company* |
Michael W. Stockton, 1967 Executive Vice President (2021) |
Senior Vice President – Legal and Compliance Group, Capital Research and Management Company |
Courtney R. Taylor, 1975 Secretary (2023) |
Assistant Vice President – Legal and Compliance Group, Capital Research and Management Company |
Becky L. Park, 1979 Treasurer (2021) |
Vice President – Investment Operations, Capital Research and Management Company |
Jane Y. Chung, 1974 Assistant Secretary (2021) |
Associate – Legal and Compliance Group, Capital Research and Management Company |
Sandra Chuon, 1972 Assistant Treasurer (2021) |
Vice President – Investment Operations, Capital Research and Management Company |
Brian C. Janssen, 1972 Assistant Treasurer (2021) |
Senior Vice President – Investment Operations, Capital Research and Management Company |
* Company affiliated with Capital Research and Management Company.
1 The term independent trustee refers to a trustee who is not an “interested person” of the fund within the meaning of the 1940 Act.
2 Trustees and officers of the fund serve until their resignation, removal or retirement.
3 This includes all directorships/trusteeships (other than those in the American Funds or other funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates) that are held by each trustee as a director/trustee of a public company or a registered investment company. Unless otherwise noted, all directorships/trusteeships are current.
4 The term interested trustee refers to a trustee who is an “interested person” of the fund within the meaning of the 1940 Act, on the basis of his or her affiliation with the fund’s investment adviser, Capital Research and Management Company, or affiliated entities (including the fund’s distributor).
5 All of the trustees and/or officers listed are officers and/or directors/trustees of one or more of the other funds for which Capital Research and Management Company serves as investment adviser.
The address for all trustees and officers of the fund is 333 South Hope Street, 55th Floor, Los Angeles, California 90071, Attention: Secretary.
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Fund shares owned by trustees as of December 31, 2024:
Name | Dollar range1,3 of fund shares owned |
Aggregate dollar range1 of shares owned in all funds overseen by trustee in same family of investment companies as the fund |
Dollar range1,2 of independent trustees deferred compensation4 allocated to fund5 |
Aggregate dollar range1,2 of independent trustees deferred compensation4 allocated to all funds overseen by trustee in same family of investment companies as the fund |
Independent trustees | ||||
Francisco G. Cigarroa | None | None | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Nariman Farvardin | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Jennifer C. Feikin | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Leslie Stone Heisz | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | N/A |
Mary Davis Holt | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | N/A |
Merit E. Janow | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Margaret Spellings | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Alexandra Trower | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Paul S. Williams | None | Over $100,000 | N/A | Over $100,000 |
Name | Dollar range1,3 of fund shares owned |
Aggregate dollar range1 of shares owned in all funds overseen by trustee in same family of investment companies as the fund |
Interested trustees | ||
Michael C. Gitlin | None | Over $100,000 |
Karl J. Zeile | None | Over $100,000 |
1 Ownership disclosure is made using the following ranges: None; $1 – $10,000; $10,001 – $50,000; $50,001 – $100,000; and Over $100,000. The amounts listed for interested trustees include shares owned through The Capital Group Companies, Inc. retirement plan and 401(k) plan.
2 N/A indicates that the listed individual, as of December 31, 2024, was not a trustee of the fund (or, as applicable, other funds in the same family of investment companies as the fund), did not allocate deferred compensation to the fund, or did not participate in the deferred compensation plan.
3 Shares of the fund are generally only available for purchase by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates and other funds and investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates.
4 Eligible trustees may defer their compensation under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan. Amounts deferred by the trustee accumulate at an earnings rate determined by the total return of the fund.
5 The fund is not available for investment in the independent trustees’ deferred compensation plan.
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Trustee compensation — No compensation is paid by the fund to any officer or trustee who is a director, officer or employee of the investment adviser or its affiliates. Except for the independent trustees listed in the “Board of trustees and officers — Independent trustees” table under the “Management of the fund” section in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement, all other officers and trustees of the fund are directors, officers or employees of the investment adviser or its affiliates. The board typically meets either individually or jointly with the boards of one or more other such funds with substantially overlapping board membership (in each case referred to as a “board cluster”). The fund typically pays each independent trustee an annual retainer fee based primarily on the total number of board clusters which that independent trustee serves. Board and committee chairs receive additional fees for their services.
The fund and the other funds served by each independent trustee each pay a portion of these fees.
No pension or retirement benefits are accrued as part of fund expenses. Generally, independent trustees may elect, on a voluntary basis, to defer all or a portion of their fees through a deferred compensation plan in effect for the fund. The fund also reimburses certain expenses of the independent trustees.
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Trustee compensation earned during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025:
Name | Aggregate compensation (including voluntarily deferred compensation1) from the fund |
Total compensation (including voluntarily deferred compensation1) from all funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates |
Francisco G. Cigarroa2 | $5,896 | $356,000 |
Nariman Farvardin2 | 3,773 | 546,000 |
Jennifer C. Feikin2 | 5,896 | 457,250 |
Leslie Stone Heisz | 5,896 | 457,250 |
Mary Davis Holt | 4,556 | 426,000 |
Merit E. Janow2 | 3,829 | 573,250 |
Margaret Spellings2 | 4,436 | 536,000 |
Alexandra Trower2 | 6,062 | 366,000 |
Paul S. Williams2 | 6,062 | 366,000 |
1 Amounts may be deferred by eligible trustees under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan adopted by the fund in 2021. Deferred amounts accumulate at an earnings rate determined by the total return of one or more American Funds as designated by the trustees. Compensation shown in this table for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2025 does not include earnings on amounts deferred in previous fiscal years. See footnote 2 to this table for more information.
2 Since the deferred compensation plan’s adoption, the total amount of deferred compensation accrued by the fund (plus earnings thereon) through the end of the 2025 fiscal year for participating trustees is as follows: Francisco G. Cigarroa ($14,239), Nariman Farvardin ($22,019), Jennifer C. Feikin ($17,904), Merit E. Janow ($4,760), Margaret Spellings ($6,463), Alexandra Trower ($12,170) and Paul S. Williams ($5,894). Amounts deferred and accumulated earnings thereon are not funded and are general unsecured liabilities of the fund until paid to the trustees.
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Fund organization and the board of trustees — The fund is a series of an open-end, diversified management investment company, which was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on January 14, 2021. All fund operations are supervised by the fund’s board of trustees which meets periodically and performs duties required by applicable state and federal laws.
Delaware law charges trustees with the duty of managing the business affairs of the trust. Trustees are considered to be fiduciaries of the trust and owe duties of care and loyalty to the trust and its shareholders.
Independent board members are paid certain fees for services rendered to the fund as described above. They may elect to defer all or a portion of these fees through a deferred compensation plan in effect for the fund.
The fund has one share class, the M share class. The trustees have the authority to establish new series and classes of shares, and to split or combine outstanding shares into a greater or lesser number, without shareholder approval.
The fund does not hold annual meetings of shareholders. However, significant matters that require shareholder approval, such as certain elections of board members or a change in a fundamental investment policy, will be presented to shareholders at a meeting called for such purpose. Shareholders have one vote per share owned.
The fund’s declaration of trust and by-laws, as well as separate indemnification agreements with independent trustees, provide in effect that, subject to certain conditions, the fund will indemnify its officers and trustees against liabilities or expenses actually and reasonably incurred by them relating to their service to the fund. However, trustees are not protected from liability by reason of their willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of their office.
Removal of trustees by shareholders — At any meeting of shareholders, duly called and at which a quorum is present, shareholders may, by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast, remove any trustee from office and may elect a successor or successors to fill any resulting vacancies for the unexpired terms of removed trustees. In addition, the trustees of the fund will promptly call a meeting of shareholders for the purpose of voting upon the removal of any trustees when requested in writing to do so by the record holders of at least 10% of the outstanding shares.
Leadership structure — The board’s chair is currently an independent trustee who is not an “interested person” of the fund within the meaning of the 1940 Act. The board has determined that an independent chair facilitates oversight and enhances the effectiveness of the board. The independent chair’s duties include, without limitation, generally presiding at meetings of the board, approving board meeting schedules and agendas, leading meetings of the independent trustees in executive session, facilitating communication with committee chairs, and serving as the principal independent trustee contact for fund management and counsel to the independent trustees and the fund.
Risk oversight — Day-to-day management of the fund, including risk management, is the responsibility of the fund’s contractual service providers, including the fund’s investment adviser, distributor and transfer agent. Each of these entities is responsible for specific portions of the fund’s operations, including the processes and associated risks relating to the fund‘s investments, integrity of cash movements, financial reporting, operations and compliance. The board of trustees oversees the service providers’ discharge of their responsibilities, including the processes they use to manage relevant risks. In that regard, the board receives reports regarding the operations of the fund’s service providers, including risks. For example, the board receives reports from investment professionals
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regarding risks related to the fund‘s investments and trading. The board also receives compliance reports from the fund’s and the investment adviser’s chief compliance officers addressing certain areas of risk.
Committees of the fund’s board, which are comprised of independent board members, none of whom is an “interested person” of the fund within the meaning of the 1940 Act, as well as joint committees of independent board members of funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company, also explore risk management procedures in particular areas and then report back to the full board. For example, the fund’s audit committee oversees the processes and certain attendant risks relating to financial reporting, valuation of fund assets, and related controls. Similarly, a joint review and advisory committee oversees certain risk controls relating to the fund’s transfer agency services.
Not all risks that may affect the fund can be identified or processes and controls developed to eliminate or mitigate their effect. Moreover, it is necessary to bear certain risks (such as investment-related risks) to achieve the fund‘s objectives. As a result of the foregoing and other factors, the ability of the fund’s service providers to eliminate or mitigate risks is subject to limitations.
Committees of the board of trustees — The fund has an audit committee comprised of Francisco G. Cigarroa, Leslie Stone Heisz, Mary Davis Holt and Paul S. Williams. The committee provides oversight regarding the fund’s accounting and financial reporting policies and practices, the fund's internal controls and the internal controls of the fund’s principal service providers. The committee acts as a liaison between the fund’s independent registered public accounting firm and the full board of trustees. The audit committee held four meetings during the 2025 fiscal year.
The fund has a contracts committee comprised of all of its independent board members. The committee’s principal function is to request, review and consider the information deemed necessary to evaluate the terms of certain agreements between the fund and its investment adviser or the investment adviser’s affiliates, such as the Investment Advisory and Service Agreement and Principal Underwriting Agreement, that the fund may enter into, renew or continue, and to make its recommendations to the full board of trustees on these matters. The contracts committee held one meeting during the 2025 fiscal year.
The fund has a nominating and governance committee comprised of Nariman Farvardin, Jennifer C. Feikin, Merit E. Janow, Margaret Spellings and Alexandra Trower. The committee periodically reviews such issues as the board’s composition, responsibilities, committees, compensation and other relevant issues, and recommends any appropriate changes to the full board of trustees. The committee also coordinates annual self-assessments of the board and evaluates, selects and nominates independent trustee candidates to the full board of trustees. While the committee normally is able to identify from its own and other resources an ample number of qualified candidates, it will consider shareholder suggestions of persons to be considered as nominees to fill future vacancies on the board. Such suggestions must be sent in writing to the nominating and governance committee of the fund, addressed to the fund’s secretary, and must be accompanied by complete biographical and occupational data on the prospective nominee, along with a written consent of the prospective nominee for consideration of his or her name by the committee. The nominating and governance committee held two meetings during the 2025 fiscal year.
The independent board members of the fund have oversight responsibility for the fund and certain other funds managed by the investment adviser. As part of their oversight responsibility for these funds, each independent board member sits on one of three fund review committees comprised solely of independent board members. The three committees are divided by portfolio type. Each committee functions independently and is not a decision making body. The purpose of the committees is to assist the board of each fund in the oversight of the investment management services provided by the investment adviser. In addition to regularly monitoring and reviewing investment results, investment
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activities and strategies used to manage the fund’s assets, the committees also receive reports from the investment adviser’s Principal Investment Officers for the funds, portfolio managers and other investment personnel concerning efforts to achieve the fund’s investment objective(s). Each committee reports to the full board of the fund.
Proxy voting procedures and principles — The fund’s investment adviser, in consultation with the fund’s board, has adopted Proxy Voting Procedures and Principles (the “Principles”) with respect to voting proxies of securities held by the fund and other funds advised by the investment adviser or its affiliates. The Principles are reasonably designed to ensure that proxies are voted solely in accordance with the financial interest of the clients of the investment adviser or its affiliates and the shareholders of the funds advised or managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates. The complete text of the Principles is available at capitalgroup.com. Final voting authority is held by a committee of the appropriate equity investment division of the investment adviser under authority delegated by the funds’ boards. The boards of funds advised by Capital Research and Management Company and its affiliates, including American Funds and Capital Group exchange-traded funds, have established a Joint Proxy Committee (“JPC”) composed of independent board members from each applicable fund board. The JPC’s role is to facilitate appropriate oversight of the proxy voting process and provide valuable input on corporate governance and related matters.
The Principles provide an important framework for analysis and decision-making by all funds. However, they are not exhaustive and do not address all potential issues. The Principles provide a certain amount of flexibility so that all relevant facts and circumstances can be considered in connection with every vote. As a result, each proxy received is voted on a case-by-case basis considering the specific circumstances of each proposal. The voting process reflects the funds’ understanding of the company’s business, its management and its relationship with shareholders over time. In all cases, long-term value creation and the investment objectives and policies of the funds managed by the investment adviser remain the focus.
The investment adviser seeks to vote all U.S. proxies. Proxies for companies outside the United States are also voted where there is sufficient time and information available, taking into account distinct market practices, regulations and laws, and types of proposals presented in each country. Where there is insufficient proxy and meeting agenda information available, the investment adviser will generally vote against such proposals in the interest of encouraging improved disclosure for investors. The investment adviser may not exercise its voting authority if voting would impose costs on clients, including opportunity costs. For example, certain regulators have granted investment limit relief to the investment adviser and its affiliates, conditioned upon limiting voting power to specific voting ceilings. To comply with these voting ceilings, the investment adviser will scale back its votes across all funds and accounts it manages on a pro rata basis based on assets. In addition, certain countries impose restrictions on the ability of shareholders to sell shares during the proxy solicitation period. The investment adviser may choose, due to liquidity issues, not to expose the funds and accounts it manages to such restrictions and may not vote some (or all) shares. Finally, the investment adviser may determine not to recall securities on loan to exercise its voting rights when it determines that the cost of doing so would exceed the benefits to clients or that the vote would not have a material impact on the investment. Proxies with respect to securities on loan through client-directed lending programs are not available to vote and therefore are not voted.
After a proxy statement is received, the investment adviser’s stewardship and engagement team prepares a summary of the proposals contained in the proxy statement.
Investment analysts are generally responsible for making voting recommendations for their investment division on significant votes that relate to companies in their coverage areas. Analysts also have the opportunity to review initial recommendations made by the investment adviser’s stewardship and engagement team. Depending on the vote recommendation, a second opinion may be made by a proxy coordinator (an investment professional with experience in corporate governance and proxy
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voting matters) within the appropriate investment division, based on knowledge of the Principles and familiarity with proxy-related issues. Each of the investment adviser’s equity investment divisions has its own proxy voting committee, which is made up of investment professionals within each division. Each division’s proxy voting committee retains final authority for voting decisions made by such division. In cases where a fund is co-managed and a security is held by more than one of the investment adviser’s equity investment divisions, the divisions may develop different voting recommendations for individual ballot proposals. If this occurs, and if permitted by local market conventions, the fund’s position will generally be voted proportionally by divisional holding, according to their respective decisions. Otherwise, the outcome will be determined by the equity investment division or divisions with the larger position in the security as of the record date for the shareholder meeting.
In addition to its proprietary proxy voting, governance and executive compensation research, Capital Research and Management Company may utilize research provided by third-party advisory firms on a case-by-case basis. It does not, as a policy, follow the voting recommendations provided by these firms. It periodically assesses the information provided by the advisory firms and reports to the applicable governance committees that provide oversight of the application of the Principles.
From time to time, the investment adviser may vote proxies issued by, or on proposals sponsored or publicly supported by, (a) a client with substantial assets managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates, (b) an entity with a significant business relationship with The Capital Group Companies, Inc. or its affiliates, or (c) a company with a director of an American Fund on its board (each referred to as an “Interested Party”). Other persons or entities may also be deemed an Interested Party if facts or circumstances appear to give rise to a potential conflict.
The investment adviser has developed procedures to identify and address instances when a vote could appear to be influenced by such a relationship. Each equity investment division of the investment adviser has established a Special Review Committee (“SRC”) of senior investment professionals and legal and compliance professionals with oversight of potentially conflicted matters.
If a potential conflict is identified according to the procedure above, the SRC will take appropriate steps to address the conflict of interest. These steps may include engaging an independent third party to review the proxy and using the Principles to provide an independent voting recommendation to the investment adviser for vote execution. The investment adviser will generally follow the third party’s recommendation, except when it believes the recommendation is inconsistent with the investment adviser’s fiduciary duty to its clients. Occasionally, it may not be feasible to engage the third party to review the matter due to compressed timeframes or other operational issues. In this case, the SRC will take appropriate steps to address the conflict of interest, including reviewing the proxy after being provided with a summary of any relevant communications with the Interested Party, the rationale for the voting decision, information on the organization’s relationship with the Interested Party and any other pertinent information.
Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the 12-month period ended June 30 of each year will be available on or about September 1 of such year (a) without charge, upon request by calling American Funds Service Company at (800) 421-4225, (b) on the Capital Group website and (c) on the SEC’s website at sec.gov.
The following summary sets forth the general positions of the investment adviser on various proposals. A copy of the full Principles is available upon request, free of charge, by calling American Funds Service Company or visiting the Capital Group website.
Director matters — The election of a company’s slate of nominees for director generally is supported. Votes may be withheld for some or all of the nominees if this is determined to be in the best interest of shareholders or if, in the opinion of the investment adviser, such nominee
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has not fulfilled his or her fiduciary duty. In making this determination, the investment adviser considers, among other things, a nominee’s potential conflicts of interest, track record (whether in the current board seat or in previous executive or director roles) with respect to shareholder protection and value creation as well as their capacity for full engagement on board matters. The investment adviser generally supports a breadth of experience and perspectives among board members, and the separation of the chairman and CEO positions.
Governance provisions — Proposals to declassify a board (elect all directors annually) generally are supported based on the belief that this increases the directors’ sense of accountability to shareholders. Proposals for cumulative voting generally are supported in order to promote management and board accountability and an opportunity for leadership change. Proposals designed to make director elections more meaningful, either by requiring a majority vote or by requiring any director receiving more withhold votes than affirmative votes to tender his or her resignation, generally are supported.
Shareholder rights — Proposals to repeal an existing poison pill generally are supported. (There may be certain circumstances, however, when a proxy voting committee of a fund or an investment division of the investment adviser believes that a company needs to maintain anti-takeover protection.) Proposals to eliminate the right of shareholders to act by written consent or to take away a shareholder’s right to call a special meeting typically are not supported.
Compensation and benefit plans — Equity incentive plans are complicated, and many factors are considered in evaluating a plan. Each plan is evaluated based on protecting shareholder interests and a knowledge of the company and its management. Considerations include the pricing (or repricing) of options awarded under the plan and the impact of dilution on existing shareholders from past and future equity awards. Compensation packages should be structured to attract, motivate and retain existing employees and qualified directors; in addition, they should be aligned with the long-term success of the company and the enhancement of shareholder value.
Routine matters — The ratification of auditors, procedural matters relating to the annual meeting and changes to company name are examples of items considered routine. Such items generally are voted in favor of management’s recommendations unless circumstances indicate otherwise.
Shareholder proposals on environmental and social issues — The investment adviser believes environmental and social issues present investment risks and opportunities that can shape a company’s long-term financial sustainability. Shareholder proposals, including those relating to social and environmental issues, are evaluated in terms of their materiality to the company and its ability to generate long-term value in light of the company’s business model specific operating context. The investment adviser generally supports transparency and standardized disclosure, particularly that which leverages existing regulatory reporting or industry best practices. With respect to environmental matters, this includes disclosures aligned with industry standards and reporting on sustainability issues that are material to investment analysis. With respect to social matters, the investment adviser encourages companies to disclose the composition of the workforce in a regionally appropriate manner. The investment adviser supports relevant reporting and disclosure that is consistent with broadly applicable standards.
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Principal fund shareholders — The following table identifies those investors who own of record, or are known by the fund to own beneficially, 5% or more of any class of its shares as of the opening of business on July 1, 2025. Unless otherwise indicated, the ownership percentages below represent ownership of record rather than beneficial ownership.
Name and address | Ownership | Ownership percentage | |
American Balanced Fund | Record | Class M | 61.74% |
Omnibus account | |||
Norfolk, VA | |||
Capital Income Builder | Record | Class M | 25.06% |
Omnibus account | |||
Norfolk, VA | |||
American Funds Insurance Series | Record | Class M | 7.30% |
Asset Allocation Fund | |||
Omnibus account | |||
Norfolk, VA |
As of July 1, 2025, the officers and trustees of the fund, as a group, owned beneficially or of record less than 1% of the outstanding shares of the fund.
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Investment adviser — Capital Research and Management Company, the fund’s investment adviser, founded in 1931, maintains research facilities in the United States and abroad (Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.). These facilities are staffed with experienced investment professionals. The investment adviser is located at 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies, Inc., a holding company for several investment management subsidiaries. Capital Research and Management Company manages equity assets through three equity investment divisions and fixed income assets through its fixed income investment division, Capital Fixed Income Investors. The three equity investment divisions — Capital World Investors, Capital Research Global Investors and Capital International Investors — make investment decisions independently of one another. Portfolio managers in Capital International Investors rely on a research team that also provides investment services to institutional clients and other accounts advised by affiliates of Capital Research and Management Company. The investment adviser, which is deemed under the Commodity Exchange Act (the “CEA”) to be the operator of the fund, has claimed an exclusion from the definition of the term commodity pool operator under the CEA with respect to the fund and, therefore, is not subject to registration or regulation as such under the CEA with respect to the fund.
The investment adviser has adopted policies and procedures that address issues that may arise as a result of an investment professional’s management of the fund and other funds and accounts. Potential issues could involve allocation of investment opportunities and trades among funds and accounts, use of information regarding the timing of fund trades, investment professional compensation and voting relating to portfolio securities. The investment adviser believes that its policies and procedures are reasonably designed to address these issues.
Compensation of investment professionals — As described in Part A of the fund’s registration statement, the investment adviser uses a system of multiple portfolio managers in managing fund assets. In addition, Capital Research and Management Company’s investment analysts may make investment decisions with respect to a portion of a fund’s portfolio within their research coverage.
Portfolio managers and investment analysts are paid competitive salaries by Capital Research and Management Company. In addition, they may receive bonuses based on their individual portfolio results. Investment professionals also may participate in profit-sharing plans. The relative mix of compensation represented by bonuses, salary and profit-sharing plans will vary depending on the individual’s portfolio results, contributions to the organization and other factors.
To encourage a long-term focus, bonuses based on investment results are calculated by comparing total investment returns to relevant benchmarks over the most recent one-, three-, five- and eight-year periods, with increasing weight placed on each succeeding measurement period. For portfolio managers, benchmarks may include measures of the marketplaces in which the fund invests and measures of the results of comparable mutual funds. For investment analysts, benchmarks may include relevant market measures and appropriate industry or sector indexes reflecting their areas of expertise. Capital Research and Management Company makes periodic subjective assessments of analysts’ contributions to the investment process and this is an element of their overall compensation. The investment results of each of the fund’s portfolio managers may be measured against one or more benchmarks, depending on his or her investment focus, such as Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Index and a custom average consisting of funds that disclose investment objectives and strategies comparable to those of the fund. From time to time, Capital Research and Management Company may adjust or customize these benchmarks to better reflect the investment objective(s) of the fund and/or the universe of comparably managed funds of competitive investment management firms.
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Portfolio manager fund holdings and other managed accounts — As described below, portfolio managers may not personally own shares of the fund. In addition, portfolio managers may manage portions of other registered investment companies or accounts advised by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates.
The following table reflects information as of May 31, 2025:
Portfolio manager |
Number of other registered investment companies (RICs) for which portfolio manager is a manager (assets of RICs in billions)1 |
Number of other pooled investment vehicles (PIVs) for which portfolio manager is a manager (assets of PIVs in billions)1 |
Number of other accounts for which portfolio manager is a manager (assets of other accounts in billions)1,2 | |||
Robert G. Caldwell | 3 | $2.3 | 1 | $1.26 | 11 | $7.50 |
Karen Choi | 2 | $27.5 | 1 | $0.98 | 1 | $0.31 |
Scott Sykes | 4 | $22.4 | 5 | $4.62 | 12 | $7.81 |
1 Indicates other RIC(s), PIV(s) or other accounts managed by Capital Research and Management Company or its affiliates for which the portfolio manager also has significant day to day management responsibilities. Assets noted are the total net assets of the RIC(s), PIV(s) or other accounts and are not the total assets managed by the individual, which is a substantially lower amount. No RIC, PIV or other account has an advisory fee that is based on the performance of the RIC, PIV or other account, unless otherwise noted.
2 Personal brokerage accounts of portfolio managers and their families are not reflected.
The fund’s investment adviser has adopted policies and procedures to mitigate material conflicts of interest that may arise in connection with the portfolio manager’s management of the fund, on the one hand, and investments in the other pooled investment vehicles and other accounts, on the other hand, such as material conflicts relating to the allocation of investment opportunities that may be suitable for both the fund and such other accounts.
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Investment Advisory and Service Agreement — The Investment Advisory and Service Agreement (the “Agreement”) between the fund and the investment adviser will continue in effect until April 30, 2026, unless sooner terminated, and may be renewed from year to year thereafter, provided that any such renewal has been specifically approved at least annually by (a) the board of trustees, or by the vote of a majority (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the outstanding voting securities of the fund, and (b) the vote of a majority of trustees who are not parties to the Agreement or interested persons (as defined in the 1940 Act) of any such party, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. The Agreement provides that the investment adviser has no liability to the fund for its acts or omissions in the performance of its obligations to the fund not involving willful misconduct, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of its obligations under the Agreement. The Agreement also provides that either party has the right to terminate it, without penalty, upon 60 days’ written notice to the other party, and that the Agreement automatically terminates in the event of its assignment (as defined in the 1940 Act). In addition, the Agreement provides that the investment adviser may delegate all, or a portion of, its investment management responsibilities to one or more subsidiary advisers approved by the fund’s board, pursuant to an agreement between the investment adviser and such subsidiary. Any such subsidiary adviser will be paid solely by the investment adviser out of its fees.
In addition to providing investment advisory services, the investment adviser furnishes the services and pays the compensation and travel expenses of persons to perform the fund’s executive, administrative, clerical and bookkeeping functions, and provides suitable office space, necessary small office equipment and utilities, general purpose accounting forms, supplies and postage used at the fund’s offices. The fund pays all expenses not assumed by the investment adviser, including, but not limited to: custodian, stock transfer and dividend disbursing fees and expenses; shareholder recordkeeping; costs of the designing, printing and mailing of reports, registration statements, proxy statements and notices to its shareholders; taxes; expenses of the issuance and redemption of fund shares (including stock certificates, registration and qualification fees and expenses); legal and auditing expenses; compensation, fees and expenses paid to independent trustees; association dues; costs of stationery and forms prepared exclusively for the fund; and costs of assembling and storing shareholder account data.
Under the Agreement, the fund does not pay any management fee to the investment adviser.
Distributor — Capital Client Group, Inc. (the “distributor”) is the distributor of the fund’s shares. The distributor is located at 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071; 6455 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618; 3500 Wiseman Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78251; and 12811 North Meridian Street, Carmel, IN 46032.
The distributor receives no compensation from the fund.
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Execution of portfolio transactions
The investment adviser places orders with broker-dealers for the fund’s portfolio transactions. Purchases and sales of equity securities on a securities exchange or an over-the-counter market are effected through broker-dealers who receive commissions for their services. Generally, commissions relating to securities traded on foreign exchanges will be higher than commissions relating to securities traded on U.S. exchanges and may not be subject to negotiation. Equity securities may also be purchased from underwriters at prices that include underwriting fees. Purchases and sales of fixed income securities are generally made with an issuer or a primary market maker acting as principal with no stated brokerage commission. The price paid to an underwriter for fixed income securities includes underwriting fees. Prices for fixed income securities in secondary trades usually include undisclosed compensation to the market maker reflecting the spread between the bid and ask prices for the securities.
In selecting broker-dealers, the investment adviser strives to obtain “best execution” (the most favorable total price reasonably attainable under the circumstances) for the fund’s portfolio transactions, taking into account a variety of factors. These factors include the size and type of transaction, the nature and character of the markets for the security to be purchased or sold, the cost, quality, likely speed and reliability of execution and settlement, the broker-dealer’s or execution venue’s ability to offer liquidity and anonymity and the trade-off between market impact and opportunity costs. The investment adviser considers these factors, which involve qualitative judgments, when selecting broker-dealers and execution venues for fund portfolio transactions. The investment adviser views best execution as a process that should be evaluated over time as part of an overall relationship with particular broker-dealer firms. The investment adviser and its affiliates negotiate commission rates with broker-dealers based on what they believe is reasonably necessary to obtain best execution. They seek, on an ongoing basis, to determine what the reasonable levels of commission rates for execution services are in the marketplace, taking various considerations into account, including the extent to which a broker-dealer has put its own capital at risk, historical commission rates and commission rates that other institutional investors are paying. The fund does not consider the investment adviser as having an obligation to obtain the lowest commission rate available for a portfolio transaction to the exclusion of price, service and qualitative considerations. Brokerage commissions are only a small part of total execution costs and other factors, such as market impact and speed of execution, contribute significantly to overall transaction costs.
The investment adviser may execute portfolio transactions with broker-dealers who provide certain brokerage and/or investment research services to it but only when in the investment adviser’s judgment the broker-dealer is capable of providing best execution for that transaction. The investment adviser makes decisions for procurement of research separately and distinctly from decisions on the choice of brokerage and execution services. The receipt of these research services permits the investment adviser to supplement its own research and analysis and makes available the views of, and information from, individuals and the research staffs of other firms. Such views and information may be provided in the form of written reports, telephone contacts and meetings with securities analysts. These services may include, among other things, reports and other communications with respect to individual companies, industries, countries and regions, economic, political and legal developments, as well as scheduling meetings with corporate executives and seminars and conferences related to relevant subject matters. Research services that the investment adviser receives from broker-dealers may be used by the investment adviser in servicing the fund and other funds and accounts that it advises; however, not all such services will necessarily benefit the fund.
The investment adviser bears the cost of all third-party investment research services for all client accounts it advises. However, in order to compensate certain U.S. broker-dealers for research consumed, and valued, by the investment adviser’s investment professionals, the investment adviser continues to operate a limited commission sharing arrangement with commissions on equity trades for certain registered investment companies it advises. The investment adviser voluntarily reimburses such
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registered investment companies for all amounts collected into the commission sharing arrangement. In order to operate the commission sharing arrangement, the investment adviser may cause such registered investment companies to pay commissions in excess of what other broker-dealers might have charged for certain portfolio transactions in recognition of brokerage and/or investment research services. In this regard, the investment adviser has adopted a brokerage allocation procedure consistent with the requirements of Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 28(e) permits the investment adviser and its affiliates to cause an account to pay a higher commission to a broker-dealer to compensate the broker-dealer or another service provider for certain brokerage and/or investment research services provided to the investment adviser and its affiliates, if the investment adviser and each affiliate makes a good faith determination that such commissions are reasonable in relation to the value of the services provided by such broker-dealer to the investment adviser and its affiliates in terms of that particular transaction or the investment adviser’s overall responsibility to the fund and other accounts that it advises. Certain brokerage and/or investment research services may not necessarily benefit all accounts paying commissions to each such broker-dealer; therefore, the investment adviser and its affiliates assess the reasonableness of commissions in light of the total brokerage and investment research services provided to the investment adviser and its affiliates. Further, investment research services may be used by all investment associates of the investment adviser and its affiliates, regardless of whether they advise accounts with trading activity that generates eligible commissions.
In accordance with their internal brokerage allocation procedure, the investment adviser and its affiliates periodically assess the brokerage and investment research services provided by each broker-dealer and each other service provider from which they receive such services. As part of its ongoing relationships, the investment adviser and its affiliates routinely meet with firms to discuss the level and quality of the brokerage and research services provided, as well as the value and cost of such services. In valuing the brokerage and investment research services the investment adviser and its affiliates receive from broker-dealers and other research providers in connection with its good faith determination of reasonableness, the investment adviser and its affiliates take various factors into consideration, including the quantity, quality and usefulness of the services to the investment adviser and its affiliates. Based on this information and applying their judgment, the investment adviser and its affiliates set an annual research budget.
Research analysts and portfolio managers periodically participate in a research poll to determine the usefulness and value of the research provided by individual broker-dealers and research providers. Based on the results of this research poll, the investment adviser and its affiliates may, through commission sharing arrangements with certain broker-dealers, direct a portion of commissions paid to a broker-dealer by the funds and other registered investment companies managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates to be used to compensate the broker-dealer and/or other research providers for research services they provide. While the investment adviser and its affiliates may negotiate commission rates and enter into commission sharing arrangements with certain broker-dealers with the expectation that such broker-dealers will be providing brokerage and research services, none of the investment adviser, any of its affiliates or any of their clients incurs any obligation to any broker-dealer to pay for research by generating trading commissions. The investment adviser and its affiliates negotiate prices for certain research that may be paid through commission sharing arrangements or by themselves with cash.
When executing portfolio transactions in the same equity security for the funds and accounts, or portions of funds and accounts, over which the investment adviser, through its equity investment divisions, has investment discretion, each investment division within the adviser and its affiliates normally aggregates its respective purchases or sales and executes them as part of the same transaction or series of transactions. When executing portfolio transactions in the same fixed income security for the fund and the other funds or accounts over which it or one of its affiliated companies has investment discretion, the investment adviser normally aggregates such purchases or sales and executes them as part of the same transaction or series of transactions. The objective of aggregating
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purchases and sales of a security is to allocate executions in an equitable manner among the funds and other accounts that have concurrently authorized a transaction in such security. The investment adviser and its affiliates serve as investment adviser for certain accounts that are designed to be substantially similar to another account. This type of account will often generate a large number of relatively small trades when it is rebalanced to its reference fund due to differing cash flows or when the account is initially started up. The investment adviser may not aggregate program trades or electronic list trades executed as part of this process. Non-aggregated trades performed for these accounts will be allocated entirely to that account. This is done only when the investment adviser believes doing so will not have a material impact on the price or quality of other transactions.
The investment adviser currently owns a minority interest in IEX Group and alternative trading systems, Luminex ATS and LeveL ATS (through a minority interest in their common parent holding company). The investment adviser, or brokers with which the investment adviser places orders, may place orders on these or other exchanges or alternative trading systems in which it, or one of its affiliates, has an ownership interest, provided such ownership interest is less than five percent of the total ownership interests in the entity. The investment adviser is subject to the same best execution obligations when trading on any such exchange or alternative trading systems.
Purchase and sale transactions may be effected directly among and between certain funds or accounts advised by the investment adviser or its affiliates, including the fund. The investment adviser maintains cross-trade policies and procedures and places a cross-trade only when such a trade is in the best interest of all participating clients and is not prohibited by the participating funds’ or accounts’ investment management agreement or applicable law.
The investment adviser may place orders for the fund’s portfolio transactions with broker-dealers who have sold shares of the funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliated companies; however, it does not consider whether a broker-dealer has sold shares of the funds managed by the investment adviser or its affiliated companies when placing any such orders for the fund’s portfolio transactions.
Purchases and sales of futures contracts for the fund will be effected through executing brokers and FCMs that specialize in the types of futures contracts that the fund expects to hold. The investment adviser will use reasonable efforts to choose executing brokers and FCMs capable of providing the services necessary to obtain the most favorable price and execution available. The full range and quality of services available will be considered in making these determinations. The investment adviser will monitor the executing brokers and FCMs used for purchases and sales of futures contracts for their ability to execute trades based on many factors, such as the sizes of the orders, the difficulty of executions, the operational facilities of the firm involved and other factors.
Forward currency contracts are traded directly between currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their customers. The cost to the fund of engaging in such contracts varies with factors such as the currency involved, the length of the contract period and the market conditions then prevailing. Because such contracts are entered into on a principal basis, their prices usually include undisclosed compensation to the market maker reflecting the spread between the bid and ask prices for the contracts. The fund may incur additional fees in connection with the purchase or sale of certain contracts.
No brokerage commissions were paid by the fund on portfolio transactions for the fiscal years ended May 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The fund is required to disclose information regarding investments in the securities of its “regular” broker-dealers (or parent companies of its regular broker-dealers) that derive more than 15% of their revenue from broker-dealer, underwriter or investment adviser activities. A regular broker-dealer is (a) one of the 10 broker-dealers that received from the fund the largest amount of brokerage
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commissions by participating, directly or indirectly, in the fund’s portfolio transactions during the fund’s most recently completed fiscal year; (b) one of the 10 broker-dealers that engaged as principal in the largest dollar amount of portfolio transactions of the fund during the fund’s most recently completed fiscal year; or (c) one of the 10 broker-dealers that sold the largest amount of securities of the fund during the fund’s most recently completed fiscal year.
At the end of the fund’s most recently completed fiscal year, the fund’s regular broker-dealers included Bank of America, N.A., Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank A.G., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. At the end of the fund’s most recently completed fiscal year, the fund held debt securities of Bank of America, N.A. in the amount of $172,271,000, Citigroup Inc. in the amount of $107,911,000, Deutsche Bank A.G. in the amount of $32,062,000, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in the amount of $153,797,000, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in the amount of $268,375,000, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in the amount of $260,435,000 and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC in the amount of $158,579,000.
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Disclosure of portfolio holdings
The fund’s investment adviser, on behalf of the fund, has adopted policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of information about fund portfolio securities. These policies and procedures have been reviewed by the fund’s board of trustees, and compliance will be periodically assessed by the board in connection with reporting from the fund’s Chief Compliance Officer.
Under these policies and procedures, the fund’s complete list of portfolio holdings available for public disclosure, dated as of the end of each calendar quarter, is permitted to be posted on the Capital Group website no earlier than the 10th day after such calendar quarter. In practice, the publicly disclosed portfolio is typically posted on the Capital Group website within 30 days after the end of the calendar quarter. The publicly disclosed portfolio may exclude certain securities when deemed to be in the best interest of the fund as permitted by applicable regulations. In addition, the fund’s list of top 10 portfolio holdings measured by percentage of net assets, dated as of the end of each calendar month, is permitted to be posted on the Capital Group website no earlier than the 10th day after such month for equity securities, and no earlier than the 30th day after such month for fixed income securities. The fund’s list of top 10 portfolio holdings for equity and fixed income securities is permitted to be posted no earlier than the 10th day after the final month of each calendar quarter. Such portfolio holdings information may be disclosed to any person pursuant to an ongoing arrangement to disclose portfolio holdings information to such person no earlier than one day after the day on which the information is posted on the Capital Group website. The investment adviser may disclose individual holdings more frequently on the Capital Group website if it determines it is in the best interest of the fund.
Certain intermediaries are provided additional information about the fund’s management team, including information on the fund’s portfolio securities they have selected. This information is provided to larger intermediaries that require the information to make the fund available for investment on the firm’s platform. Intermediaries receiving the information are required to keep it confidential and use it only to perform analysis on the fund.
The fund’s custodian, outside counsel, auditor, financial printers, proxy voting and class action claims processing service providers, pricing information vendors, consultants or agents operating under a contract with the investment adviser or its affiliates, co-litigants (such as in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding related to a fund holding) and certain other third parties described below, each of which requires portfolio holdings information for legitimate business and fund oversight purposes, may receive fund portfolio holdings information earlier. See the “General information” section in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement for further information about the fund’s custodian, outside counsel and auditor.
Affiliated persons of the fund, including officers of the fund and employees of the investment adviser and its affiliates, who receive portfolio holdings information are subject to restrictions and limitations on the use and handling of such information pursuant to applicable codes of ethics, including requirements not to trade in securities based on confidential and proprietary investment information, to maintain the confidentiality of such information, and to pre-clear securities trades and report securities transactions activity, as applicable. For more information on these restrictions and limitations, please see the “Code of ethics” section in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement and the Code of Ethics. Third-party service providers of the fund and other entities, as described in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement, receiving such information are subject to confidentiality obligations and obligations that would prohibit them from trading in securities based on such information. When portfolio holdings information is disclosed other than through the Capital Group website to persons not affiliated with the fund, such persons will be bound by agreements (including confidentiality agreements) or fiduciary or other obligations that restrict and limit their use of the information to legitimate business uses only. None of the fund, its investment adviser or any of their
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affiliates receives compensation or other consideration in connection with the disclosure of information about portfolio securities.
Subject to board policies, the authority to disclose a fund’s portfolio holdings, and to establish policies with respect to such disclosure, resides with the appropriate investment-related committees of the fund’s investment adviser. In exercising their authority, the committees determine whether disclosure of information about the fund’s portfolio securities is appropriate and in the best interest of fund shareholders. The investment adviser has implemented policies and procedures to address conflicts of interest that may arise from the disclosure of fund holdings. For example, the investment adviser’s code of ethics specifically requires, among other things, the safeguarding of information about fund holdings and contains prohibitions designed to prevent the personal use of confidential, proprietary investment information in a way that would conflict with fund transactions. In addition, the investment adviser believes that its current policy of not selling portfolio holdings information and not disclosing such information to unaffiliated third parties until such holdings have been made public on the Capital Group website (other than to certain fund service providers and other third parties for legitimate business and fund oversight purposes) helps reduce potential conflicts of interest between fund shareholders and the investment adviser and its affiliates.
The fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates provide investment advice to individuals and financial intermediaries that have investment objectives that may be substantially similar to those of the fund. These clients also may have portfolios consisting of holdings substantially similar to those of the fund and generally have access to current portfolio holdings information for their accounts. These clients do not owe the fund’s investment adviser or the fund a duty of confidentiality with respect to disclosure of their portfolio holdings.
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Price of shares
Shares are purchased at the offering price or sold at the net asset value price next determined after the purchase or sell order is received by the fund or the Transfer Agent provided that your request contains all information and legal documentation necessary to process the transaction. The Transfer Agent may accept written orders for the sale of fund shares on a future date. These orders are subject to the Transfer Agent’s policies, which generally allow shareholders to provide a written request to sell shares at the net asset value on a specified date no more than five business days after receipt of the order by the Transfer Agent. Any request to sell shares on a future date will be rejected if the request is not in writing, if the requested transaction date is more than five business days after the Transfer Agent receives the request or if the request does not contain all information and legal documentation necessary to process the transaction.
The price you pay for shares, the offering price, is based on the net asset value per share which is calculated once daily as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, normally 4 p.m. New York time, each day the New York Stock Exchange is open. If the New York Stock Exchange makes a scheduled (e.g., the day after Thanksgiving) or an unscheduled close prior to 4 p.m. New York time, the net asset value of the fund will be determined at approximately the time the New York Stock Exchange closes on that day. If on such a day market quotations and prices from third-party pricing services are not based as of the time of the early close of the New York Stock Exchange but are as of a later time (up to approximately 4 p.m. New York time), for example because the market remains open after the close of the New York Stock Exchange, those later market quotations and prices will be used in determining the fund’s net asset value.
Orders in good order received after the New York Stock Exchange closes (scheduled or unscheduled) will be processed at the net asset value (plus any applicable sales charge) calculated on the following business day. The New York Stock Exchange is currently closed on weekends and on the following holidays: New Year’s Day; Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Presidents’ Day; Good Friday; Memorial Day; Juneteenth National Independence Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Thanksgiving Day; and Christmas Day.
All portfolio securities of funds managed by Capital Research and Management Company (other than American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund) are valued, and the net asset values per share for each share class are determined, as indicated below. The fund follows standard industry practice by typically reflecting changes in its holdings of portfolio securities on the first business day following a portfolio trade.
Equity securities, including depositary receipts, exchange-traded funds, and certain convertible preferred stocks that trade on an exchange or market, are generally valued at the official closing price of, or the last reported sale price on, the exchange or market on which such securities are traded, as of the close of business on the day the securities are being valued or, lacking any sales, at the last available bid price. Prices for each security are taken from the principal exchange or market on which the security trades.
Fixed income securities, including short-term securities, are generally valued at evaluated prices obtained from third-party pricing vendors. Vendors value such securities based on one or more inputs that may include, among other things, benchmark yields, transactions, bids, offers, quotations from dealers and trading systems, new issues, underlying equity of the issuer, interest rate volatilities, spreads and other relationships observed in the markets among comparable securities and proprietary pricing models such as yield measures calculated using factors such as cash flows, prepayment information, default rates, delinquency and loss assumptions, financial or collateral characteristics or performance, credit enhancements, liquidation value calculations, specific deal information and other reference data.
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Forward currency contracts are valued based on the spot and forward exchange rates obtained from a third-party pricing vendor.
Futures contracts are generally valued at the official settlement price of, or the last reported sale price on, the principal exchange or market on which such instruments are traded, as of the close of business on the day the contracts are being valued or, lacking any sales, at the last available bid price.
Swaps, including interest rate swaps, total return swaps and positions in credit default swap indices, are generally valued using evaluated prices obtained from third-party pricing vendors who calculate these values based on market inputs that may include yields of the indices referenced in the instrument and the relevant curve, dealer quotes, default probabilities and recovery rates, other reference data, and terms of the contract.
Options are valued using market quotations or valuations provided by one or more pricing vendors. Similar to futures, options may also be valued at the official settlement price if listed on an exchange.
Securities and other assets for which representative market quotations are not readily available or are considered unreliable by the investment adviser are valued at fair value as determined in good faith under fair value guidelines adopted by the investment adviser and approved by the fund’s board. Subject to board oversight, the fund’s board has designated the fund‘s investment adviser to make fair valuation determinations, which are directed by a valuation committee established by the fund’s investment adviser. The board receives regular reports describing fair-valued securities and the valuation methods used.
As a general principle, these guidelines consider relevant company, market and other data and considerations to determine the price that the fund might reasonably expect to receive if such fair valued securities were sold in an orderly transaction. Fair valuations may differ materially from valuations that would have been used had greater market activity occurred. The investment adviser’s valuation committee considers relevant indications of value that are reasonably and timely available to it in determining the fair value to be assigned to a particular security, such as the type and cost of the security, restrictions on resale of the security, relevant financial or business developments of the issuer, actively traded similar or related securities and transactions, dealer or broker quotes, conversion or exchange rights on the security, related corporate actions, significant events occurring after the close of trading in the security and changes in overall market conditions. The valuation committee employs additional fair value procedures to address issues related to equity securities that trade principally in markets outside the United States. Such securities may trade in markets that open and close at different times, reflecting time zone differences. If significant events occur after the close of a market (and before the fund’s net asset values are next determined) which affect the value of equity securities held in the fund’s portfolio, appropriate adjustments from closing market prices may be made to reflect these events. Events of this type could include, for example, earthquakes and other natural disasters or significant price changes in other markets (e.g., U.S. stock markets).
Certain short-term securities, such as variable rate demand notes or repurchase agreements involving securities fully collateralized by cash or U.S. government securities, are valued at par.
Assets and liabilities, including investment securities, denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars are translated into U.S. dollars, prior to the next determination of the net asset value of the fund’s shares, at the exchange rates obtained from a third-party pricing vendor.
Net assets so obtained for the fund are then divided by the total number of shares outstanding, and the result, rounded to the nearest cent, is the net asset value per share for the fund.
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Taxes and distributions
Taxation as a regulated investment company — The fund intends to qualify each year as a “regulated investment company” under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), so that it will not be liable for federal tax on income and capital gains distributed to shareholders. In order to qualify as a regulated investment company, and avoid being subject to federal income taxes, the fund intends to distribute substantially all of its net investment income and realized net capital gains on a fiscal year basis, and intends to comply with other tests applicable to regulated investment companies under Subchapter M.
The Code includes savings provisions allowing the fund to cure inadvertent failures of certain qualification tests required under Subchapter M. However, should the fund fail to qualify under Subchapter M, the fund would be subject to federal, and possibly state, corporate taxes on its taxable income and gains.
Amounts not distributed by the fund on a timely basis in accordance with a calendar year distribution requirement may be subject to a nondeductible 4% excise tax. Unless an applicable exception applies, to avoid the tax, the fund must distribute during each calendar year an amount equal to the sum of (a) at least 98% of its ordinary income (not taking into account any capital gains or losses) for the calendar year, (b) at least 98.2% of its capital gains in excess of its capital losses for the twelve month period ending on October 31, and (c) all ordinary income and capital gains for previous years that were not distributed during such years and on which the fund paid no U.S. federal income tax.
Dividends paid by the fund from ordinary income or from an excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss are taxable to shareholders as ordinary income dividends. The fund does not typically realize short- or long-term capital gains or losses on sales of securities.
The fund may declare a capital gain distribution consisting of the excess of net realized long-term capital gains over net realized short-term capital losses. Net capital gains for a fiscal year are computed by taking into account any capital loss carryforward of the fund.
The fund may retain a portion of net capital gain for reinvestment and may elect to treat such capital gain as having been distributed to shareholders of the fund. Shareholders may receive a credit for the tax that the fund paid on such undistributed net capital gain and would increase the basis in their shares of the fund by the difference between the amount of includible gains and the tax deemed paid by the shareholder.
Distributions of net capital gain that the fund properly reports as a capital gain distribution generally will be taxable as long-term capital gain, regardless of the length of time the shares of the fund have been held by a shareholder. Any loss realized upon the redemption of shares held at the time of redemption for six months or less from the date of their purchase will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of any capital gain distributions (including any undistributed amounts treated as distributed capital gains, as described above) during such six-month period.
Capital gain distributions by the fund result in a reduction in the net asset value of the fund’s shares. Investors should consider the tax implications of buying shares just prior to a capital gain distribution. The price of shares purchased at that time includes the amount of the forthcoming distribution. Those purchasing just prior to a distribution will subsequently receive a partial return of their investment capital upon payment of the distribution, which will be taxable to them.
Certain distributions reported by the fund as Section 163(j) interest dividends may be treated as interest income by shareholders for purposes of the tax rules applicable to interest expense limitations under Section 163(j) of the Code. Such treatment by the shareholder is generally subject to holding
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period requirements and other potential limitations, although the holding period requirements are generally not applicable to dividends declared by money market funds and certain other funds that declare dividends daily and pay such dividends on a monthly or more frequent basis. The amount that the fund is eligible to report as a Section 163(j) dividend for a tax year is generally limited to the excess of the fund’s business interest income over the sum of the fund’s (i) business interest expense and (ii) other deductions properly allocable to the fund’s business interest income.
Individuals (and certain other non-corporate entities) are generally eligible for a 20% deduction with respect to taxable ordinary REIT dividends through 2025. Applicable Treasury regulations allow the fund to pass through to its shareholders such taxable ordinary REIT dividends. Accordingly, individual (and certain other non-corporate) shareholders of the fund that have received such taxable ordinary REIT dividends may be able to take advantage of this 20% deduction with respect to any such amounts passed through.
Redemptions of fund shares — Redemptions of shares may result in federal, state and local tax consequences (gain or loss) to the shareholder.
Any loss realized on a redemption of shares of the fund will be disallowed to the extent substantially identical shares are reacquired within the 61-day period beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after the shares are disposed of. Any loss disallowed under this rule will be added to the shareholder’s tax basis in the new shares purchased.
Tax consequences of investing in non-U.S. securities — Dividend and interest income received by the fund from sources outside the United States may be subject to withholding and other taxes imposed by such foreign jurisdictions. Tax conventions between certain countries and the United States, however, may reduce or eliminate these foreign taxes. Some foreign countries impose taxes on capital gains with respect to investments by foreign investors.
If more than 50% of the value of the total assets of the fund at the close of the taxable year consists of securities of foreign corporations, the fund may elect to pass through to shareholders the foreign taxes paid by the fund. If such an election is made, shareholders may claim a credit or deduction on their federal income tax returns for, and will be required to treat as part of the amounts distributed to them, their pro rata portion of qualified taxes paid by the fund to foreign countries. The application of the foreign tax credit depends upon the particular circumstances of each shareholder.
Foreign currency gains and losses, including the portion of gain or loss on the sale of debt securities attributable to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, are generally taxable as ordinary income or loss. These gains or losses may increase or decrease the amount of dividends payable by the fund to shareholders. A fund may elect to treat gain and loss on certain foreign currency contracts as capital gain and loss instead of ordinary income or loss.
If the fund invests in stock of certain passive foreign investment companies (PFICs), the fund intends to mark-to-market these securities and recognize any gains at the end of its fiscal and excise tax years. Deductions for losses are allowable only to the extent of any previously recognized gains. Both gains and losses will be treated as ordinary income or loss, and the fund is required to distribute any resulting income. If the fund is unable to identify an investment as a PFIC security and thus does not make a timely mark-to-market election, the fund may be subject to adverse tax consequences.
Tax consequences of investing in derivatives — The fund may enter into transactions involving derivatives, such as futures, swaps, options and forward contracts. Special tax rules may apply to these types of transactions that could defer losses to the fund, accelerate the fund’s income, alter the holding period of certain securities or change the classification of capital gains. These tax rules may therefore impact the amount, timing and character of fund distributions.
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Discount — Certain bonds acquired by the fund, such as zero coupon bonds, may be treated as bonds that were originally issued at a discount. Original issue discount represents interest for federal income tax purposes and is generally defined as the difference between the price at which a bond was issued (or the price at which it was deemed issued for federal income tax purposes) and its stated redemption price at maturity. Original issue discount is treated for federal income tax purposes as tax exempt income earned by a fund over the term of the bond, and therefore is subject to the distribution requirements of the Code. The annual amount of income earned on such a bond by a fund generally is determined on the basis of a constant yield to maturity which takes into account the semiannual compounding of accrued interest (including original issue discount). Certain bonds acquired by the fund may also provide for contingent interest and/or principal. In such a case, rules similar to those for original issue discount bonds would require the accrual of income based on an assumed yield that may exceed the actual interest payments on the bond.
Some of the bonds may be acquired by a fund on the secondary market at a discount which exceeds the original issue discount, if any, on such bonds. This additional discount constitutes market discount for federal income tax purposes. Any gain recognized on the disposition of any bond having market discount generally will be treated as taxable ordinary income to the extent it does not exceed the accrued market discount on such bond (unless a fund elects to include market discount in income in the taxable years to which it is attributable). Realized accrued market discount on obligations that pay tax-exempt interest is nonetheless taxable. Generally, market discount accrues on a daily basis for each day the bond is held by a fund at a constant rate over the time remaining to the bond’s maturity. In the case of any debt instrument having a fixed maturity date of not more than one year from date of issue, the gain realized on disposition will be treated as short-term capital gain. Some of the bonds acquired by a fund with a fixed maturity date of one year or less from the date of their issuance may be treated as having original issue discount or, in certain cases, “acquisition discount” (generally, the excess of a bond’s stated redemption price at maturity over its acquisition price). A fund will be required to include any such original issue discount or acquisition discount in taxable ordinary income. The rate at which such acquisition discount and market discount accrues, and is thus included in a fund’s investment company taxable income, will depend upon which of the permitted accrual methods the fund elects.
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Purchase and exchange of shares
Shares of the fund are purchased by (a) other funds and investment vehicles and accounts managed by the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates and (b) the fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates. Shares of the fund are not available to the public. The fund may accept securities in-kind in exchange for shares of the fund in accordance with the fund’s policy and procedures relating to in-kind purchase transactions.
Shares of the fund cannot be exchanged with shares of other funds or investment vehicles managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates. In addition, the fund shares cannot be transferred or resold without registration under the 1933 Act or an available exemption from registration under the 1933 Act.
Frequent trading of fund shares — As noted in Part A of the fund’s registration statement, the investment adviser anticipates that fund shares may be purchased and sold frequently. For this reason, the board has not adopted policies and procedures designed to detect and deter excessive trading of fund shares.
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Selling shares
The methods for selling (redeeming) shares are described more fully in Part A of the fund’s registration statement.
Except for extraordinary circumstances (and as permissible under the 1940 Act), the fund typically expects to send redemption proceeds one business day following receipt and acceptance of a redemption order. Interest will not accrue or be paid on amounts that represent uncashed distribution or redemption checks.
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Shareholder account services and privileges
The following services and privileges are generally available to all shareholders.
Automatic reinvestment — Dividends and capital gain distributions will be automatically reinvested in additional shares of the same class and fund at net asset value.
Account statements — Your account is opened in accordance with your registration instructions. Transactions in the account, such as additional investments, will be reflected on regular confirmation statements from the Transfer Agent. Dividend and capital gain reinvestments will be confirmed at least quarterly.
Telephone and Internet purchases, redemptions and exchanges — By using the telephone or the Internet (including capitalgroup.com), or fax purchase, redemption and/or exchange options, you agree to hold the fund, the Transfer Agent, any of its affiliates or mutual funds managed by such affiliates, and each of their respective directors, trustees, officers, employees and agents harmless from any losses, expenses, costs or liabilities (including attorney fees) that may be incurred in connection with the exercise of these privileges. Generally, all shareholders are automatically eligible to use these services. However, you may elect to opt out of these services by writing the Transfer Agent (you may also reinstate them at any time by writing the Transfer Agent). If the Transfer Agent does not employ reasonable procedures to confirm that the instructions received from any person with appropriate account information are genuine, it and/or the fund may be liable for losses due to unauthorized or fraudulent instructions. In the event that shareholders are unable to reach the fund by telephone because of technical difficulties, market conditions or a natural disaster, redemption and exchange requests may be made in writing only.
Redemption of shares — The fund’s declaration of trust permits the fund to direct the Transfer Agent to redeem the shares of any shareholder for their then current net asset value per share if at such time the shareholder of record owns shares having an aggregate net asset value of less than the minimum initial investment amount required of new shareholders as the board of trustees of the fund may from time to time adopt.
While payment of redemptions normally will be in cash, the fund’s declaration of trust permits payment of the redemption price wholly or partly with portfolio securities or other fund assets under conditions and circumstances determined by the fund’s board of trustees. For example, redemptions could be made in this manner if the board determined that making payments wholly in cash over a particular period would be unfair and/or harmful to other fund shareholders.
Share certificates — Shares are credited to your account. The fund does not issue share certificates.
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General information
Custodian of assets — Securities and cash owned by the fund, including proceeds from the sale of shares of the fund and of securities in the fund’s portfolio, are held by State Street Bank and Trust Company, One Lincoln Street, Boston, MA 02111, as custodian. If the fund holds securities of issuers outside the United States, the custodian may hold these securities pursuant to subcustodial arrangements in banks outside the United States or branches of U.S. banks outside the United States.
Transfer agent services — American Funds Service Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the investment adviser, maintains the records of shareholder accounts, processes purchases and redemptions of the fund’s shares, acts as dividend and capital gain distribution disbursing agent, and performs other related shareholder service functions. The principal office of American Funds Service Company is located at 6455 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618. Transfer agent fees are paid according to a fee schedule, based on the number of accounts serviced, contained in a Shareholder Services Agreement between the fund and American Funds Service Company.
Compensation for transfer agency services is ultimately paid from fund assets as disclosed in Part A of the fund’s registration statement.
During the 2025 fiscal year, transfer agent fees, gross of any payments made by American Funds Service Company to third parties, were less than $1,000.
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Independent registered public accounting firm — PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 601 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017, serves as the fund’s independent registered public accounting firm, providing audit services, preparation of tax returns and review of certain documents to be filed with the SEC. The financial statements and financial highlights of the fund included in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement that are from the fund's Form N-CSR for the most recent fiscal year have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report appearing herein. Such financial statements and financial highlights are included in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing. The selection of the fund’s independent registered public accounting firm is reviewed and determined annually by the board of trustees.
Independent legal counsel — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, One Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110-1726, serves as independent legal counsel (“counsel”) for the fund and for independent trustees in their capacities as such. A determination with respect to the independence of the fund’s counsel will be made at least annually by the independent trustees of the fund, as prescribed by applicable 1940 Act rules.
Registration statements, reports to shareholders and proxy statements — The fund’s fiscal year ends on May 31. Shareholders are provided an updated registration statement annually and at least semi-annually with reports showing the fund’s expenses, key statistics, holdings information and investment results (annual report only). Shareholders may request a copy of the fund’s current registration statement at no cost by calling (800) 421-4225. The fund’s annual financial statements are audited by the fund’s independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In addition, shareholders may also receive proxy statements for the fund. In an effort to reduce the volume of mail shareholders receive from the fund when a household owns more than one account, the Transfer Agent has taken steps to eliminate duplicate mailings of the registration statements, shareholder reports and proxy statements. To receive additional copies of the registration statement, report or proxy statement, shareholders should contact the Transfer Agent.
The registration statement, annual reports and semi-annual reports that are mailed to shareholders by the Capital Group organization are printed with ink containing soy and/or vegetable oil on paper containing recycled fibers.
Codes of ethics — The fund and Capital Research and Management Company and its affiliated companies, including the fund’s distributor, have adopted codes of ethics that allow for personal investments, including securities in which the fund may invest from time to time. These codes include a ban on acquisitions of securities pursuant to an initial public offering; restrictions on acquisitions of private placement securities; preclearance and reporting requirements; review of duplicate confirmation statements; annual recertification of compliance with codes of ethics; blackout periods on personal investing for certain investment personnel; ban on short-term trading profits for investment personnel; limitations on service as a director of publicly traded companies; disclosure of personal securities transactions; and policies regarding political contributions.
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Determination of net asset value, redemption price and maximum offering price per share for Class M shares — May 31, 2025
Net asset value and redemption price per share (Net assets divided by shares outstanding) |
$8.32 |
Maximum offering price per share (100/100 of net asset value per share, which takes into account the fund’s current maximum sales charge) |
$8.32 |
Other information — The fund reserves the right to modify the privileges described in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement at any time.
The fund‘s financial statements, including the investment portfolio and the report of the fund‘s independent registered public accounting firm contained in the fund's Form N-CSR, are included in this Part B of the fund’s registration statement.
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Appendix
The following descriptions of debt security ratings are based on information provided by Moody’s Investors Service, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, Inc.
Description of bond ratings
Moody’s
Long-term rating scale
Aaa
Obligations rated Aaa are judged to be of the highest quality, subject to the lowest level of credit
risk.
Aa
Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk.
A
Obligations rated A are considered upper-medium grade and are subject to low credit risk.
Baa
Obligations rated Baa are judged to be medium-grade and subject to moderate credit risk and as such
may possess certain speculative characteristics.
Ba
Obligations rated Ba are judged to be speculative and are subject to substantial credit risk.
B
Obligations rated B are considered speculative and are subject to high credit risk.
Caa
Obligations rated Caa are judged to be speculative and of poor standing and are subject to very high
credit risk.
Ca
Obligations rated Ca are highly speculative and are likely in, or very near, default, with some prospect
of recovery of principal and interest.
C
Obligations rated C are the lowest rated and are typically in default, with little prospect for recovery
of principal or interest.
Note: Moody’s appends numerical modifiers 1, 2, and 3 to each generic rating classification from Aa through Caa. The modifier 1 indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category; the modifier 2 indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier 3 indicates a ranking in the lower end of that generic rating category. Additionally, a “(hyb)” indicator is appended to all ratings of hybrid securities issued by banks, insurers, finance companies and securities firms.
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S&P Global Ratings
Long-term issue credit ratings
AAA
An obligation rated AAA has the highest rating assigned by S&P Global Ratings. The obligor’s
capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation is extremely strong.
AA
An obligation rated AA differs from the highest-rated obligations only to a small degree. The obligor’s
capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation is very strong.
A
An obligation rated A is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances
and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments
on the obligation is still strong.
BBB
An obligation rated BBB exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions
or changing circumstances are more likely to weaken the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation.
BB, B, CCC, CC, and C
Obligations rated BB, B, CCC, CC, and C are regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. BB indicates the least degree of speculation and C the highest. While such obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.
BB
An obligation rated BB is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces
major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor’s
inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation.
B
An obligation rated B is more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated BB, but the obligor currently
has the capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely
impair the obligor’s capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitments on the obligation.
CCC
An obligation rated CCC is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business,
financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitments on the obligation. In the event of adverse business,
financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation.
CC
An obligation rated CC is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment. The CC rating is used when a default
has not occurred, but S&P Global Ratings expects default to be a virtual certainty, regardless of the anticipated time to default.
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C
An obligation rated C is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment, and the obligation is expected to
have lower relative seniority or lower ultimate recovery compared with obligations that are rated higher.
D
An obligation rated D is in default or in breach of an imputed promise. For non-hybrid capital instruments,
the D rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due, unless S&P Global Ratings believes that
such payments will be made within the next five business days in the absence of a stated grace period or within the earlier of the stated
grace period or the next 30 calendar days. The D rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of similar
action and where default on an obligation is a virtual certainty, for example due to automatic stay provisions. A rating on an obligation
is lowered to D if it is subject to a distressed debt restructuring.
Plus (+) or minus (–)
The ratings from AA to CCC may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.
NR
Indicates that a rating has not been assigned or is no longer assigned.
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Fitch Ratings, Inc.
Long-term credit ratings
AAA
Highest credit quality. AAA ratings denote the lowest expectation of default risk. They are assigned
only in case of exceptionally strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected
by foreseeable events.
AA
Very high credit quality. AA ratings denote expectations of very low default risk. They indicate very
strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.
A
High credit quality. A ratings denote expectations of low default risk. The capacity for payment of
financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to changes in circumstances or in economic
conditions than is the case for higher ratings.
BBB
Good credit quality. BBB ratings indicate that expectations of default risk are low. The capacity for
payment of financial commitments is considered adequate but adverse changes in circumstances and economic conditions are more likely to
impair this capacity.
BB
Speculative. BB ratings indicate an elevated vulnerability to default risk, particularly in the event
of adverse changes in business or economic conditions over time; however, business or financial flexibility exists which supports the
servicing of financial commitments.
B
Highly speculative. B ratings indicate that material default risk is present, but a limited margin of
safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met; however, capacity for continued payment is vulnerable to deterioration
in the business and economic environment.
CCC
Substantial credit risk. Default is a real possibility.
CC
Very high levels of credit risk. Default of some kind appears probable.
C
Exceptionally high levels of credit risk. Default is imminent or inevitable, or the issuer is in standstill.
Conditions that are indicative of a C category rating for an issuer include:
· The issuer has entered into a grace or cure period following nonpayment of a material financial obligation;
· The issuer has entered into a temporary negotiated waiver or standstill agreement following a payment default on a material financial obligation; or
· Fitch Ratings otherwise believes a condition of RD or D to be imminent or inevitable, including through the formal announcement of a distressed debt exchange.
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RD
Restricted default. RD ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch Ratings’ opinion has experienced
an uncured payment default on a bond, loan or other material financial obligation but which has not entered into bankruptcy filings, administration,
receivership, liquidation or other formal winding up procedure, and which has not otherwise ceased operating. This would include:
· The selective payment default on a specific class or currency of debt;
· The uncured expiry of any applicable grace period, cure period or default forbearance period following a payment default on a bank loan, capital markets security or other material financial obligation;
· The extension of multiple waivers or forbearance periods upon a payment default on one or more material financial obligations, either in series or in parallel; or
· Execution of a distressed debt exchange on one or more material financial obligations.
D
Default. D ratings indicate an issuer that in Fitch Ratings’ opinion has entered into bankruptcy
filings, administration, receivership, liquidation or other formal winding up procedure, or which has otherwise ceased business.
Default ratings are not assigned prospectively to entities or their obligations; within this context, nonpayment on an instrument that contains a deferral feature or grace period will generally not be considered a default until after the expiration of the deferral or grace period, unless a default is otherwise driven by bankruptcy or other similar circumstance, or by a distressed debt exchange.
Imminent default typically refers to the occasion where a payment default has been intimated by the issuer, and is all but inevitable. This may, for example, be where an issuer has missed a scheduled payment, but (as is typical) has a grace period during which it may cure the payment default. Another alternative would be where an issuer has formally announced a distressed debt exchange, but the date of the exchange still lies several days or weeks in the immediate future.
In all cases, the assignment of a default rating reflects the agency’s opinion as to the most appropriate rating category consistent with the rest of its universe of ratings, and may differ from the definition of default under the terms of an issuer’s financial obligations or local commercial practice.
Note: The modifiers “+” or “–” may be appended to a rating to denote relative status within major rating categories. Such suffixes are not added to the AAA long-term rating category, or to categories below B.
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Description of commercial paper ratings
Moody’s
Global short-term rating scale
P-1
Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-1 have a superior ability to repay short-term debt obligations.
P-2
Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-2 have a strong ability to repay short-term debt obligations.
P-3
Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Prime-3 have an acceptable ability to repay short-term obligations.
NP
Issuers (or supporting institutions) rated Not Prime do not fall within any of the Prime rating categories.
S&P Global Ratings
Commercial paper ratings (highest three ratings)
A-1
A short-term obligation rated A-1 is rated in the highest category by S&P Global Ratings. The obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on these obligations is extremely strong.
A-2
A short-term obligation rated A-2 is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor’s capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation is satisfactory.
A-3
A short-term obligation rated A-3 exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to weaken an obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitments on the obligation.
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Investment portfolio May 31, 2025
Bonds, notes & other debt instruments 94.37% |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans 85.50% | ||||
Financials 24.68% | ||||
200 Park Funding Trust 5.74% 2/15/2055 (a) |
USD5,000 |
$4,826 | ||
American Express Co. 1.65% 11/4/2026 |
21,868 |
21,054 | ||
American Express Co. 2.55% 3/4/2027 |
3,270 |
3,173 | ||
American Express Co. 4.05% 5/3/2029 |
10,617 |
10,551 | ||
American Express Co. 5.284% 7/26/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.42% on 7/26/2034) (b) |
10,983 |
10,945 | ||
American Express Co. 5.442% 1/30/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.32% on 1/30/2035) (b) |
31,968 |
32,191 | ||
American Express Co. 5.667% 4/25/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.79% on 4/25/2035) (b) |
8,785 |
8,973 | ||
American International Group, Inc. 4.85% 5/7/2030 |
651 |
654 | ||
American International Group, Inc. 5.125% 3/27/2033 |
14,360 |
14,374 | ||
American International Group, Inc. 5.45% 5/7/2035 |
15,461 |
15,552 | ||
American International Group, Inc. 4.375% 6/30/2050 |
6,292 |
5,091 | ||
Aon Corp. 5.35% 2/28/2033 |
2,129 |
2,166 | ||
Aon Corp. 3.90% 2/28/2052 |
16,284 |
11,699 | ||
Aon North America, Inc. 5.45% 3/1/2034 |
45,190 |
45,711 | ||
Aon North America, Inc. 5.75% 3/1/2054 |
14,191 |
13,564 | ||
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. 5.00% 2/15/2032 |
2,015 |
2,021 | ||
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. 5.15% 2/15/2035 |
45,640 |
44,940 | ||
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. 3.50% 5/20/2051 |
3,452 |
2,327 | ||
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. 5.55% 2/15/2055 |
34,664 |
32,176 | ||
Athene Holding, Ltd. 6.625% 5/19/2055 |
19,171 |
19,111 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 2.884% 10/22/2030 (3-month USD CME Term SOFR + 1.19% on 10/22/2029) (b) |
1,036 |
960 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 5.162% 1/24/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.00% on 1/24/2030) (b) |
30,467 |
30,928 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 2.592% 4/29/2031 (USD-SOFR + 2.15% on 4/29/2030) (b) |
10,681 |
9,641 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 1.898% 7/23/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.53% on 7/23/2030) (b) |
36,587 |
31,683 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 1.922% 10/24/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.37% on 10/24/2030) (b) |
489 |
421 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 2.299% 7/21/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.22% on 7/21/2031) (b) |
39,903 |
34,248 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 5.872% 9/15/2034 (USD-SOFR + 1.84% on 9/15/2033) (b) |
1,372 |
1,426 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 5.511% 1/24/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.31% on 1/24/2035) (b) |
13,315 |
13,425 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 5.464% 5/9/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.64% on 5/9/2035) (b) |
48,940 |
49,283 | ||
Bank of America Corp. 2.972% 7/21/2052 (USD-SOFR + 1.56% on 7/21/2051) (b) |
410 |
256 | ||
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 5.802% 10/25/2028 (USD-SOFR + 1.802% on 10/25/2027) (b) |
15,571 |
16,081 | ||
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 4.942% 2/11/2031 (USD-SOFR + 0.887% on 2/11/2030) (b) |
29,392 |
29,716 | ||
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 5.06% 7/22/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.23% on 7/22/2031) (b) |
11,485 |
11,613 | ||
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 5.225% 11/20/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.253% on 11/20/2034) (b) |
21,947 |
22,077 | ||
Bank of Nova Scotia (The) 4.75% 2/2/2026 |
17,494 |
17,518 | ||
Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp. 4.20% 8/15/2048 |
13,910 |
11,428 | ||
Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp. 3.85% 3/15/2052 |
8,398 |
6,302 | ||
Blackstone, Inc. 5.00% 12/6/2034 |
18,388 |
17,936 | ||
BNP Paribas SA 5.283% 11/19/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.28% on 11/19/2029) (a)(b) |
5,000 |
5,051 | ||
BPCE SA 6.714% 10/19/2029 (USD-SOFR + 2.27% on 10/19/2028) (a)(b) |
15,000 |
15,787 | ||
BPCE SA 6.293% 1/14/2036 (USD-SOFR + 2.04% on 1/14/2035) (a)(b) |
36,350 |
37,751 | ||
BPCE SA 6.027% 5/28/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.956% on 5/28/2035) (a)(b) |
11,886 |
12,067 | ||
CaixaBank, SA 5.673% 3/15/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.78% on 3/15/2029) (a)(b) |
3,504 |
3,600 | ||
CaixaBank, SA 6.84% 9/13/2034 (USD-SOFR + 2.77% on 9/13/2033) (a)(b) |
14,800 |
16,046 | ||
CaixaBank, SA 6.037% 6/15/2035 (USD-SOFR + 2.26% on 9/15/2034) (a)(b) |
44,046 |
45,414 | ||
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 4.631% 9/11/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.335% on 9/11/2029) (b) |
14,572 |
14,499 | ||
Capital One Financial Corp. 5.70% 2/1/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.905% on 2/1/2029) (b) |
4,755 |
4,883 | ||
Capital One Financial Corp. 6.377% 6/8/2034 (USD-SOFR + 2.86% on 6/8/2033) (b) |
9,484 |
9,915 | ||
Capital One Financial Corp. 5.884% 7/26/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.99% on 7/26/2034) (b) |
3,284 |
3,328 | ||
Chubb INA Holdings, LLC 3.35% 5/3/2026 |
8,585 |
8,503 | ||
Chubb INA Holdings, LLC 5.00% 3/15/2034 |
77,669 |
77,765 | ||
Chubb INA Holdings, LLC 4.35% 11/3/2045 |
400 |
335 | ||
Citibank, NA 4.914% 5/29/2030 |
5,700 |
5,750 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 4.786% 3/4/2029 (USD-SOFR + 0.87% on 3/4/2028) (b) |
24,820 |
24,859 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 4.952% 5/7/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.463% on 5/7/2030) (b) |
13,401 |
13,396 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 2.572% 6/3/2031 (USD-SOFR + 2.107% on 6/3/2030) (b) |
10,706 |
9,594 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 2.561% 5/1/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.167% on 5/1/2031) (b) |
5,150 |
4,500 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 2.52% 11/3/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.177% on 11/3/2031) (b) |
14,584 |
12,554 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 6.02% 1/24/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.83% on 1/24/2035) (b) |
8,614 |
8,669 | ||
Citigroup, Inc. 5.333% 3/27/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.465% on 3/27/2035) (b) |
28,973 |
28,589 | ||
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. 6.645% 4/25/2035 (USD-SOFR + 2.325% on 4/25/2034) (b) |
10,627 |
11,272 | ||
Corebridge Financial, Inc. 3.90% 4/5/2032 |
15,703 |
14,463 |
1 |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Financials (continued) | ||||
Corebridge Global Funding 4.90% 12/3/2029 (a) |
USD18,100 |
$18,230 | ||
Deutsche Bank AG 2.552% 1/7/2028 (USD-SOFR + 1.318% on 1/7/2027) (b) |
5,370 |
5,178 | ||
Deutsche Bank AG 3.547% 9/18/2031 (USD-SOFR + 3.043% on 9/18/2030) (b) |
2,000 |
1,844 | ||
Deutsche Bank AG 5.403% 9/11/2035 (USD-SOFR + 2.05% on 9/11/2034) (b) |
25,650 |
25,040 | ||
First Citizens BancShares, Inc. 5.231% 3/12/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.41% on 3/12/2030) (b) |
4,347 |
4,331 | ||
First Citizens BancShares, Inc. 6.254% 3/12/2040 (5-year UST Yield Curve Rate T Note Constant Maturity + 1.97% on 3/12/2035) (b) |
19,380 |
18,741 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 2.60% 2/7/2030 |
6,239 |
5,702 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 5.727% 4/25/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.265% on 4/25/2029) (b) |
21,176 |
21,892 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 5.218% 4/23/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.58% on 4/23/2030) (b) |
41,476 |
42,092 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1.992% 1/27/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.09% on 1/27/2031) (b) |
750 |
639 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 2.65% 10/21/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.264% on 10/21/2031) (b) |
12,047 |
10,464 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 5.016% 10/23/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.42% on 10/23/2034) (b) |
27,239 |
26,372 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 5.536% 1/28/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.38% on 1/28/2035) (b) |
15,662 |
15,779 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 2.908% 7/21/2042 (USD-SOFR + 1.40% on 7/21/2041) (b) |
20,000 |
13,915 | ||
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 5.734% 1/28/2056 (USD-SOFR + 1.696% on 1/28/2055) (b) |
17,420 |
16,942 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 4.755% 6/9/2028 (USD-SOFR + 2.11% on 6/9/2027) (b) |
15,675 |
15,663 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 7.39% 11/3/2028 (USD-SOFR + 7.39% on 11/3/2027) (b) |
1,994 |
2,109 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 2.206% 8/17/2029 (USD-SOFR + 1.285% on 8/17/2028) (b) |
41,629 |
38,375 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 5.286% 11/19/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.29% on 11/19/2029) (b) |
5,278 |
5,332 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 2.804% 5/24/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.187% on 5/24/2031) (b) |
267 |
234 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 5.45% 3/3/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.56% on 3/3/2035) (b) |
13,544 |
13,337 | ||
HSBC Holdings PLC 5.79% 5/13/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.88% on 5/13/2035) (b) |
31,317 |
31,547 | ||
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. 5.25% 6/15/2031 |
7,708 |
7,951 | ||
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA 7.778% 6/20/2054 (1-year UST Yield Curve Rate T Note Constant Maturity + 3.90% on 6/20/2053) (a)(b) |
4,000 |
4,369 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.045% 11/19/2026 (USD-SOFR + 0.80% on 11/19/2025) (b) |
355 |
349 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.581% 4/22/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.16% on 4/22/2029) (b) |
9,345 |
9,649 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.995% 7/22/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.125% on 7/22/2029) (b) |
34,278 |
34,606 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.603% 10/22/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.04% on 10/22/2029) (b) |
39,392 |
39,170 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.493% 3/24/2031 (3-month USD CME Term SOFR + 3.79% on 3/24/2030) (b) |
5,181 |
5,121 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.103% 4/22/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.435% on 4/22/2030) (b) |
10,953 |
11,115 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.764% 11/19/2031 (3-month USD CME Term SOFR + 1.105% on 11/19/2030) (b) |
18,040 |
15,412 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.953% 2/4/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.065% on 2/4/2031) (b) |
1,493 |
1,279 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.545% 11/8/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.18% on 11/8/2031) (b) |
1,952 |
1,692 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2.963% 1/25/2033 (USD-SOFR + 1.26% on 1/25/2032) (b) |
3,167 |
2,802 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.294% 7/22/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.46% on 7/22/2034) (b) |
45,145 |
45,075 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 4.946% 10/22/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.34% on 10/22/2034) (b) |
1,667 |
1,618 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.502% 1/24/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.315% on 1/24/2035) (b) |
19,654 |
19,894 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.572% 4/22/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.68% on 4/22/2035) (b) |
66,942 |
68,134 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5.534% 11/29/2045 (USD-SOFR + 1.55% on 11/29/2044) (b) |
12,143 |
11,900 | ||
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3.328% 4/22/2052 (USD-SOFR + 1.58% on 4/22/2051) (b) |
819 |
556 | ||
M&T Bank Corp. 6.082% 3/13/2032 (USD-SOFR + 2.26% on 3/13/2031) (b) |
7,427 |
7,736 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 2.25% 11/15/2030 |
5,031 |
4,463 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 5.40% 9/15/2033 |
13,230 |
13,544 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 5.00% 3/15/2035 |
59,277 |
58,348 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 2.90% 12/15/2051 |
1,777 |
1,079 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 5.70% 9/15/2053 |
4,113 |
4,027 | ||
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. 5.40% 3/15/2055 |
22,324 |
20,871 | ||
Mastercard, Inc. 4.55% 3/15/2028 |
16,283 |
16,491 | ||
Mastercard, Inc. 4.95% 3/15/2032 |
7,160 |
7,300 | ||
Mastercard, Inc. 4.875% 5/9/2034 |
18,283 |
18,251 | ||
Mastercard, Inc. 4.55% 1/15/2035 |
16,601 |
16,109 | ||
MetLife, Inc. 5.375% 7/15/2033 |
17,216 |
17,733 | ||
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 0.95% 7/2/2025 (a) |
3,632 |
3,621 | ||
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 5.05% 1/6/2028 (a) |
6,669 |
6,778 | ||
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 2.95% 4/9/2030 (a) |
3,778 |
3,498 | ||
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 1.55% 1/7/2031 (a) |
25,326 |
21,451 | ||
Metropolitan Life Global Funding I 5.15% 3/28/2033 (a) |
5,000 |
5,017 | ||
Morgan Stanley 3.875% 1/27/2026 |
5,847 |
5,823 | ||
Morgan Stanley 4.994% 4/12/2029 (USD-SOFR + 1.38% on 4/12/2028) (b) |
4,714 |
4,759 | ||
Morgan Stanley 6.407% 11/1/2029 (USD-SOFR + 1.83% on 11/1/2028) (b) |
1,872 |
1,974 | ||
Morgan Stanley 5.656% 4/18/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.26% on 4/18/2029) (b) |
9,754 |
10,072 | ||
Morgan Stanley 4.654% 10/18/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.10% on 10/18/2029) (b) |
70,252 |
69,809 | ||
Morgan Stanley 5.192% 4/17/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.51% on 4/17/2030) (b) |
33,514 |
34,013 | ||
Morgan Stanley 1.794% 2/13/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.034% on 2/13/2031) (b) |
13,626 |
11,479 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Financials (continued) | ||||
Morgan Stanley 5.32% 7/19/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.555% on 7/19/2034) (b) |
USD16,163 |
$16,064 | ||
Morgan Stanley 5.587% 1/18/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.418% on 1/18/2035) (b) |
759 |
767 | ||
Morgan Stanley 5.664% 4/17/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.757% on 4/17/2035) (b) |
82,962 |
84,349 | ||
Morgan Stanley 5.516% 11/19/2055 (USD-SOFR + 1.71% on 11/19/2054) (b) |
22,366 |
21,326 | ||
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp. 3.25% 11/1/2025 |
536 |
533 | ||
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp. 3.05% 4/25/2027 |
1,875 |
1,834 | ||
New York Life Global Funding 2.35% 7/14/2026 (a) |
4,760 |
4,653 | ||
New York Life Global Funding 4.60% 12/5/2029 (a) |
20,164 |
20,277 | ||
New York Life Global Funding 1.20% 8/7/2030 (a) |
13,997 |
11,857 | ||
New York Life Global Funding 4.55% 1/28/2033 (a) |
5,051 |
4,891 | ||
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. (The) 4.90% 6/12/2028 (a) |
2,305 |
2,339 | ||
Omnis Funding Trust 6.722% 5/15/2055 (a) |
3,500 |
3,524 | ||
PNC Bank, National Association, 4.543% 5/13/2027 (USD-SOFR + 0.63% on 5/13/2026) (b) |
10,322 |
10,325 | ||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 5.582% 6/12/2029 (USD-SOFR + 1.841% on 6/12/2028) (b) |
12,214 |
12,570 | ||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 5.222% 1/29/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.072% on 1/29/2030) (b) |
21,946 |
22,308 | ||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 6.875% 10/20/2034 (USD-SOFR + 2.284% on 10/20/2033) (b) |
16,159 |
17,723 | ||
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 5.575% 1/29/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.394% on 1/29/2035) (b) |
10,929 |
11,006 | ||
Prudential Financial, Inc. 3.878% 3/27/2028 |
325 |
322 | ||
Prudential Financial, Inc. 4.35% 2/25/2050 |
15,900 |
12,812 | ||
Prudential Financial, Inc. 3.70% 3/13/2051 |
7,435 |
5,308 | ||
RenaissanceRe Holdings, Ltd. 5.80% 4/1/2035 |
10,286 |
10,370 | ||
Royal Bank of Canada 4.65% 10/18/2030 (USD-SOFR + 1.08% on 10/18/2029) (b) |
12,366 |
12,319 | ||
Royal Bank of Canada 5.153% 2/4/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.03% on 2/4/2030) (b) |
26,495 |
26,886 | ||
Royal Bank of Canada 4.971% 5/2/2031 (USD-SOFR Index + 1.13% on 5/2/2030) (b) |
31,387 |
31,603 | ||
State Street Bank and Trust Co. 4.594% 11/25/2026 |
8,959 |
9,002 | ||
State Street Corp. 5.159% 5/18/2034 (USD-SOFR + 1.89% on 5/18/2033) (b) |
2,347 |
2,365 | ||
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 5.88% 7/13/2026 |
18,475 |
18,754 | ||
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 5.80% 7/13/2028 |
6,207 |
6,438 | ||
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 5.776% 7/13/2033 |
10,601 |
10,989 | ||
Synchrony Financial 5.45% 3/6/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.68% on 3/6/2030) (b) |
7,336 |
7,305 | ||
Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) 4.568% 12/17/2026 |
3,750 |
3,756 | ||
Toronto-Dominion Bank (The) 4.861% 1/31/2028 |
5,686 |
5,743 | ||
Travelers Companies, Inc. 4.00% 5/30/2047 |
3,885 |
3,047 | ||
Travelers Companies, Inc. 4.05% 3/7/2048 |
2,753 |
2,158 | ||
Travelers Companies, Inc. 2.55% 4/27/2050 |
859 |
503 | ||
Travelers Companies, Inc. 5.45% 5/25/2053 |
4,404 |
4,217 | ||
Truist Financial Corp. 5.071% 5/20/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.309% on 5/20/2030) (b) |
19,878 |
19,971 | ||
U.S. Bancorp 5.046% 2/12/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.061% on 2/12/2030) (b) |
8,878 |
8,944 | ||
U.S. Bancorp 5.424% 2/12/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.411% on 2/12/2035) (b) |
11,206 |
11,184 | ||
UBS Group AG 1.364% 1/30/2027 (5-year UST Yield Curve Rate T Note Constant Maturity + 1.08% on 1/30/2026) (a)(b) |
2,049 |
2,004 | ||
UBS Group AG 1.305% 2/2/2027 (USD-SOFR + 0.98% on 2/2/2026) (a)(b) |
250 |
244 | ||
UBS Group AG 5.617% 9/13/2030 (1-year USD-ICE SOFR Swap + 1.34% on 9/13/2029) (a)(b) |
8,730 |
8,994 | ||
UBS Group AG 2.095% 2/11/2032 (1-year UST Yield Curve Rate T Note Constant Maturity + 1.00% on 2/11/2031) (a)(b) |
3,405 |
2,912 | ||
UBS Group AG 3.091% 5/14/2032 (USD-SOFR + 1.73% on 5/14/2031) (a)(b) |
9,670 |
8,660 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 2.879% 10/30/2030 (3-month USD CME Term SOFR + 1.432% on 10/30/2029) (b) |
8,276 |
7,640 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 5.15% 4/23/2031 (USD-SOFR + 1.50% on 4/23/2030) (b) |
44,075 |
44,617 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 3.35% 3/2/2033 (USD-SOFR + 1.50% on 3/2/2032) (b) |
3,293 |
2,955 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 5.557% 7/25/2034 (USD-SOFR + 1.99% on 7/25/2033) (b) |
7,602 |
7,702 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 6.491% 10/23/2034 (USD-SOFR + 2.06% on 10/23/2033) (b) |
4,281 |
4,593 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 5.211% 12/3/2035 (USD-SOFR + 1.38% on 12/3/2034) (b) |
8,191 |
8,036 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 5.605% 4/23/2036 (USD-SOFR + 1.74% on 4/23/2035) (b) |
64,119 |
64,892 | ||
Wells Fargo & Co. 4.611% 4/25/2053 (USD-SOFR + 2.13% on 4/25/2052) (b) |
22,017 |
18,144 | ||
|
2,615,062 | |||
| ||||
Utilities 13.82% | ||||
AEP Texas, Inc. 3.45% 5/15/2051 |
3,894 |
2,543 | ||
AEP Transmission Co., LLC 5.15% 4/1/2034 |
11,411 |
11,325 | ||
AEP Transmission Co., LLC 5.375% 6/15/2035 |
2,725 |
2,739 | ||
Alabama Power Co. 5.85% 11/15/2033 |
4,100 |
4,314 | ||
Ameren Corp. 1.75% 3/15/2028 |
5,655 |
5,246 | ||
American Transmission Systems, Inc. 2.65% 1/15/2032 (a) |
20,450 |
17,742 | ||
Atlantic City Electric Co. 2.30% 3/15/2031 |
2,175 |
1,910 |
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Utilities (continued) | ||||
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC 5.05% 3/1/2035 |
USD5,006 |
$4,929 | ||
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. 2.65% 6/1/2031 |
9,652 |
8,467 | ||
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. (The) 3.50% 4/1/2028 (a) |
7,637 |
7,361 | ||
CMS Energy Corp. 3.00% 5/15/2026 |
3,750 |
3,695 | ||
Commonwealth Edison Co. 2.95% 8/15/2027 |
3,750 |
3,642 | ||
Commonwealth Edison Co. 3.125% 3/15/2051 |
1,500 |
956 | ||
Commonwealth Edison Co. 2.75% 9/1/2051 |
1,202 |
706 | ||
Connecticut Light and Power Co. (The) 2.05% 7/1/2031 |
14,377 |
12,403 | ||
Consumers Energy Co. 3.80% 11/15/2028 |
9,225 |
9,073 | ||
Consumers Energy Co. 3.60% 8/15/2032 |
14,216 |
13,044 | ||
Consumers Energy Co. 4.625% 5/15/2033 |
24,501 |
23,863 | ||
Consumers Energy Co. 5.05% 5/15/2035 |
28,725 |
28,568 | ||
Consumers Energy Co. 3.10% 8/15/2050 |
1,058 |
695 | ||
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 2.55% 4/15/2031 |
3,362 |
2,995 | ||
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 3.70% 12/1/2047 |
777 |
565 | ||
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 5.35% 1/15/2053 |
12,525 |
11,589 | ||
Duke Energy Corp. 3.50% 6/15/2051 |
3,620 |
2,386 | ||
Duke Energy Corp. 5.00% 8/15/2052 |
4,223 |
3,570 | ||
Duke Energy Florida, LLC 3.20% 1/15/2027 |
5,190 |
5,100 | ||
Duke Energy Florida, LLC 1.75% 6/15/2030 |
12,027 |
10,502 | ||
Duke Energy Florida, LLC 5.875% 11/15/2033 |
2 |
2 | ||
Duke Energy Florida, LLC 5.95% 11/15/2052 |
3,664 |
3,661 | ||
Duke Energy Progress, LLC 2.00% 8/15/2031 |
5,851 |
5,009 | ||
Duke Energy Progress, LLC 2.50% 8/15/2050 |
1,582 |
892 | ||
Duke Energy Progress, LLC 2.90% 8/15/2051 |
6,618 |
3,997 | ||
Edison International 4.125% 3/15/2028 |
15,256 |
14,677 | ||
Edison International 5.25% 11/15/2028 |
3,475 |
3,424 | ||
Edison International 5.45% 6/15/2029 |
10,899 |
10,763 | ||
Edison International 6.95% 11/15/2029 |
13,489 |
14,001 | ||
Edison International 6.25% 3/15/2030 |
22,515 |
22,819 | ||
Edison International 5.25% 3/15/2032 |
19,629 |
18,591 | ||
Electricite de France SA 9.125% junior subordinated perpetual bonds (5-year UST Yield Curve Rate T Note Constant Maturity + 5.411% on 6/15/2033) (a)(b) |
17,556 |
19,858 | ||
Emera US Finance, LP 2.639% 6/15/2031 |
6,743 |
5,811 | ||
Entergy Corp. 2.40% 6/15/2031 |
24,775 |
21,597 | ||
Entergy Corp. 3.75% 6/15/2050 |
1,256 |
871 | ||
Entergy Louisiana, LLC 3.12% 9/1/2027 |
4,481 |
4,356 | ||
Entergy Louisiana, LLC 1.60% 12/15/2030 |
2,887 |
2,461 | ||
Entergy Louisiana, LLC 5.35% 3/15/2034 |
2,000 |
2,007 | ||
FirstEnergy Corp. 2.25% 9/1/2030 |
17,204 |
15,083 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 5.10% 4/1/2033 |
12,994 |
13,123 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 4.80% 5/15/2033 |
1,544 |
1,528 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 5.30% 6/15/2034 |
36,809 |
37,407 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 5.69% 3/1/2040 |
6,960 |
7,095 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 2.875% 12/4/2051 |
26,699 |
16,379 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 5.30% 4/1/2053 |
4,377 |
4,076 | ||
Florida Power & Light Co. 5.70% 3/15/2055 |
7,328 |
7,220 | ||
Georgia Power Co. 4.95% 5/17/2033 |
3,411 |
3,387 | ||
Georgia Power Co. 5.25% 3/15/2034 |
2,186 |
2,199 | ||
Jersey Central Power & Light Co. 2.75% 3/1/2032 (a) |
13,150 |
11,384 | ||
Jersey Central Power & Light Co. 5.10% 1/15/2035 |
6,075 |
5,949 | ||
NiSource, Inc. 5.40% 6/30/2033 |
3,750 |
3,778 | ||
Northern States Power Co. 2.25% 4/1/2031 |
8,182 |
7,281 | ||
Northern States Power Co. 5.05% 5/15/2035 |
11,644 |
11,618 | ||
Northern States Power Co. 5.10% 5/15/2053 |
7,493 |
6,751 | ||
Northern States Power Co. 5.40% 3/15/2054 |
16,244 |
15,298 | ||
Northern States Power Co. 5.65% 5/15/2055 |
7,329 |
7,114 | ||
Oncor Electric Delivery Co., LLC 0.55% 10/1/2025 |
7,046 |
6,954 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 3.15% 1/1/2026 |
8,438 |
8,347 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 2.10% 8/1/2027 |
31,248 |
29,495 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 4.65% 8/1/2028 |
1,624 |
1,606 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 4.55% 7/1/2030 |
11,955 |
11,583 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 2.50% 2/1/2031 |
86,139 |
74,106 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 3.25% 6/1/2031 |
2,694 |
2,391 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 4.40% 3/1/2032 |
9,582 |
8,909 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 5.90% 6/15/2032 |
12,853 |
12,941 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Utilities (continued) | ||||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 6.15% 1/15/2033 |
USD5,878 |
$5,981 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 6.40% 6/15/2033 |
28,632 |
29,474 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 6.95% 3/15/2034 |
23,025 |
24,475 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 5.80% 5/15/2034 |
10,426 |
10,311 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 5.70% 3/1/2035 |
41,961 |
41,281 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 3.30% 8/1/2040 |
18,757 |
13,381 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 4.95% 7/1/2050 |
26,890 |
21,359 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 3.50% 8/1/2050 |
12,266 |
7,776 | ||
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 6.15% 3/1/2055 |
4,322 |
4,007 | ||
PacifiCorp 5.45% 2/15/2034 |
3,941 |
3,936 | ||
PacifiCorp 3.30% 3/15/2051 |
12,167 |
7,693 | ||
PacifiCorp 2.90% 6/15/2052 |
17,272 |
9,915 | ||
PacifiCorp 5.35% 12/1/2053 |
12,025 |
10,574 | ||
PacifiCorp 5.50% 5/15/2054 |
30,520 |
27,491 | ||
PacifiCorp 5.80% 1/15/2055 |
22,150 |
20,734 | ||
PECO Energy Co. 5.25% 9/15/2054 |
9,957 |
9,178 | ||
Progress Energy, Inc. 7.00% 10/30/2031 |
6,700 |
7,437 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 0.95% 3/15/2026 |
5,689 |
5,541 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 3.65% 9/1/2028 |
1,586 |
1,553 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 2.45% 1/15/2030 |
4,389 |
4,019 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 1.90% 8/15/2031 |
9,815 |
8,394 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 5.20% 8/1/2033 |
1,709 |
1,730 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 4.85% 8/1/2034 |
1,187 |
1,169 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 2.70% 5/1/2050 |
3,504 |
2,110 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 2.05% 8/1/2050 |
4,485 |
2,306 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 3.00% 3/1/2051 |
1,211 |
767 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 5.30% 8/1/2054 |
2,300 |
2,141 | ||
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. 5.50% 3/1/2055 |
3,600 |
3,458 | ||
Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. 5.40% 3/15/2035 |
10,275 |
10,235 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 3.65% 3/1/2028 |
13,753 |
13,338 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.65% 10/1/2028 |
23,892 |
24,375 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 2.85% 8/1/2029 |
43,917 |
40,392 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.25% 3/15/2030 |
6,569 |
6,607 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 2.25% 6/1/2030 |
31,569 |
27,512 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 2.50% 6/1/2031 |
13,668 |
11,717 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.45% 6/1/2031 |
11,477 |
11,565 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 2.75% 2/1/2032 |
7,838 |
6,611 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.95% 11/1/2032 |
8,173 |
8,304 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.20% 6/1/2034 |
4,508 |
4,320 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.45% 3/1/2035 |
6,944 |
6,721 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.35% 7/15/2035 |
8,107 |
7,778 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 4.50% 9/1/2040 |
15,000 |
12,210 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 3.60% 2/1/2045 |
8,243 |
5,529 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 4.00% 4/1/2047 |
12,322 |
8,656 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 3.65% 2/1/2050 |
11,823 |
7,668 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 2.95% 2/1/2051 |
8,015 |
4,536 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 3.65% 6/1/2051 |
200 |
128 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 3.45% 2/1/2052 |
5,262 |
3,251 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.75% 4/15/2054 |
1,250 |
1,099 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 5.90% 3/1/2055 |
9,134 |
8,212 | ||
Southern California Edison Co. 6.20% 9/15/2055 |
57,157 |
53,377 | ||
Southwestern Electric Power Co. 3.25% 11/1/2051 |
6,450 |
3,992 | ||
Tampa Electric Co. 5.15% 3/1/2035 |
21,025 |
20,752 | ||
Union Electric Co. 5.25% 4/15/2035 |
13,900 |
13,939 | ||
Union Electric Co. 2.625% 3/15/2051 |
3,600 |
2,073 | ||
Union Electric Co. 5.125% 3/15/2055 |
8,995 |
8,030 | ||
Virginia Electric & Power 2.40% 3/30/2032 |
1,575 |
1,344 | ||
WEC Energy Group, Inc. 5.15% 10/1/2027 |
3,243 |
3,288 | ||
Wisconsin Electric Power Co. 4.60% 10/1/2034 |
5,975 |
5,812 | ||
Wisconsin Electric Power Co. 5.05% 10/1/2054 |
2,975 |
2,608 | ||
Wisconsin Power and Light Co. 1.95% 9/16/2031 |
2,625 |
2,212 | ||
Wisconsin Power and Light Co. 3.65% 4/1/2050 |
600 |
418 | ||
Wisconsin Public Service Corp. 2.85% 12/1/2051 |
7,684 |
4,588 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 2.60% 12/1/2029 |
19,141 |
17,524 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 2.35% 11/15/2031 |
34,852 |
29,791 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 5.45% 8/15/2033 |
17,671 |
17,728 |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Utilities (continued) | ||||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 5.50% 3/15/2034 |
USD12,181 |
$12,154 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 5.60% 4/15/2035 |
53,616 |
53,640 | ||
Xcel Energy, Inc. 3.50% 12/1/2049 |
6,013 |
3,995 | ||
|
1,463,947 | |||
| ||||
Health care 13.19% | ||||
AbbVie, Inc. 2.95% 11/21/2026 |
23,238 |
22,790 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 4.95% 3/15/2031 |
20,850 |
21,198 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 5.05% 3/15/2034 |
66,997 |
67,215 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 5.20% 3/15/2035 |
17,624 |
17,709 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 5.35% 3/15/2044 |
2,869 |
2,747 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 5.40% 3/15/2054 |
27,989 |
26,511 | ||
AbbVie, Inc. 5.50% 3/15/2064 |
5,981 |
5,678 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 2.20% 2/21/2027 |
3,010 |
2,901 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 5.15% 3/2/2028 |
14,926 |
15,202 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 3.00% 2/22/2029 |
2,882 |
2,734 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 4.05% 8/18/2029 |
3,633 |
3,562 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 2.45% 2/21/2030 |
4,687 |
4,254 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 2.30% 2/25/2031 |
4,687 |
4,115 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 2.00% 1/15/2032 |
12,963 |
10,898 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 4.20% 3/1/2033 |
43,000 |
40,694 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 5.25% 3/2/2033 |
38,376 |
38,742 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 3.15% 2/21/2040 |
2,636 |
1,994 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 5.60% 3/2/2043 |
8,782 |
8,527 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 4.20% 2/22/2052 |
2,036 |
1,553 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 4.875% 3/1/2053 |
5,975 |
5,088 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 5.65% 3/2/2053 |
46,487 |
44,282 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 4.40% 2/22/2062 |
5,748 |
4,349 | ||
Amgen, Inc. 5.75% 3/2/2063 |
13,837 |
13,091 | ||
AstraZeneca Finance, LLC 4.875% 3/3/2033 |
2,359 |
2,370 | ||
AstraZeneca PLC 4.00% 1/17/2029 |
4,920 |
4,879 | ||
Baxter International, Inc. 2.272% 12/1/2028 |
3,975 |
3,672 | ||
Baxter International, Inc. 2.539% 2/1/2032 |
32,129 |
27,565 | ||
Baxter International, Inc. 3.132% 12/1/2051 |
8,051 |
4,957 | ||
Boston Scientific Corp. 1.90% 6/1/2025 |
11,711 |
11,711 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 3.875% 8/15/2025 |
464 |
463 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 3.20% 6/15/2026 |
4,159 |
4,112 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 5.20% 2/22/2034 |
76,118 |
76,726 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 5.50% 2/22/2044 |
2,550 |
2,477 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 2.55% 11/13/2050 |
6,857 |
3,875 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 3.70% 3/15/2052 |
7,133 |
5,049 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 6.25% 11/15/2053 |
15,089 |
15,729 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 5.55% 2/22/2054 |
44,694 |
42,472 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 6.40% 11/15/2063 |
2,917 |
3,074 | ||
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 5.65% 2/22/2064 |
3,356 |
3,176 | ||
Centene Corp. 4.25% 12/15/2027 |
3,446 |
3,368 | ||
Centene Corp. 2.45% 7/15/2028 |
20,239 |
18,653 | ||
Centene Corp. 4.625% 12/15/2029 |
6,180 |
5,955 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 1.30% 8/21/2027 |
10,000 |
9,300 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 3.25% 8/15/2029 |
4,775 |
4,487 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 1.75% 8/21/2030 |
7,924 |
6,741 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 1.875% 2/28/2031 |
30,564 |
25,690 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 5.25% 2/21/2033 |
20,879 |
20,581 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 5.70% 6/1/2034 |
40,688 |
40,935 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 5.625% 2/21/2053 |
8,540 |
7,595 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 5.875% 6/1/2053 |
1,955 |
1,799 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 6.05% 6/1/2054 |
14,808 |
13,978 | ||
CVS Health Corp. 6.00% 6/1/2063 |
8,095 |
7,434 | ||
Elevance Health, Inc. 5.20% 2/15/2035 |
5,110 |
5,073 | ||
Elevance Health, Inc. 4.55% 5/15/2052 |
7,712 |
6,141 | ||
Elevance Health, Inc. 5.125% 2/15/2053 |
2,695 |
2,344 | ||
Elevance Health, Inc. 5.70% 2/15/2055 |
2,698 |
2,539 | ||
Elevance Health, Inc. 5.85% 11/1/2064 |
8,521 |
8,027 | ||
Eli Lilly and Co. 4.50% 2/9/2027 |
27,875 |
28,042 | ||
Eli Lilly and Co. 3.375% 3/15/2029 |
2,764 |
2,688 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Health care (continued) | ||||
Eli Lilly and Co. 4.60% 8/14/2034 |
USD12,985 |
$12,663 | ||
Eli Lilly and Co. 5.10% 2/12/2035 |
37,556 |
37,802 | ||
Eli Lilly and Co. 5.50% 2/12/2055 |
28,732 |
28,126 | ||
Gilead Sciences, Inc. 5.25% 10/15/2033 |
35,515 |
36,177 | ||
Gilead Sciences, Inc. 2.80% 10/1/2050 |
1,414 |
860 | ||
Gilead Sciences, Inc. 5.55% 10/15/2053 |
37,836 |
36,305 | ||
HCA, Inc. 4.125% 6/15/2029 |
2,250 |
2,191 | ||
HCA, Inc. 2.375% 7/15/2031 |
8,178 |
6,999 | ||
HCA, Inc. 3.625% 3/15/2032 |
6,778 |
6,153 | ||
HCA, Inc. 4.625% 3/15/2052 |
10,329 |
8,085 | ||
Humana, Inc. 5.375% 4/15/2031 |
25,961 |
26,137 | ||
Humana, Inc. 5.55% 5/1/2035 |
5,225 |
5,134 | ||
Humana, Inc. 5.75% 4/15/2054 |
12,854 |
11,555 | ||
Humana, Inc. 6.00% 5/1/2055 |
11,975 |
11,110 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 4.55% 3/1/2028 |
6,725 |
6,822 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 4.90% 6/1/2031 |
17,930 |
18,407 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 4.85% 3/1/2032 |
22,003 |
22,387 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 4.95% 6/1/2034 |
20,170 |
20,616 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 5.00% 3/1/2035 |
11,576 |
11,683 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 2.25% 9/1/2050 |
1,087 |
621 | ||
Johnson & Johnson 5.25% 6/1/2054 |
3,620 |
3,510 | ||
Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte., Ltd. 4.45% 5/19/2028 |
4,294 |
4,317 | ||
Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte., Ltd. 4.75% 5/19/2033 |
5,000 |
4,919 | ||
Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte., Ltd. 5.30% 5/19/2053 |
65,138 |
59,745 | ||
Pfizer, Inc. 3.45% 3/15/2029 |
6,525 |
6,346 | ||
Pfizer, Inc. 1.70% 5/28/2030 |
13,275 |
11,638 | ||
Roche Holdings, Inc. 2.076% 12/13/2031 (a) |
29,252 |
25,079 | ||
Roche Holdings, Inc. 5.593% 11/13/2033 (a) |
17,864 |
18,686 | ||
Roche Holdings, Inc. 4.592% 9/9/2034 (a) |
2,946 |
2,865 | ||
Roche Holdings, Inc. 5.218% 3/8/2054 (a) |
7,081 |
6,663 | ||
Shire Acquisitions Investments Ireland DAC 3.20% 9/23/2026 |
222 |
219 | ||
Solventum Corp. 5.60% 3/23/2034 |
17,625 |
17,783 | ||
Stryker Corp. 5.20% 2/10/2035 |
15,675 |
15,700 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.25% 1/15/2026 |
9,393 |
9,196 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 3.875% 12/15/2028 |
1,875 |
1,833 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.875% 8/15/2029 |
285 |
266 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.00% 5/15/2030 |
5,765 |
5,080 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 4.20% 5/15/2032 |
3,952 |
3,758 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 5.35% 2/15/2033 |
5,556 |
5,609 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 5.15% 7/15/2034 |
15,045 |
14,853 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 3.05% 5/15/2041 |
12,150 |
8,655 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 4.45% 12/15/2048 |
13,315 |
10,623 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 3.70% 8/15/2049 |
2,760 |
1,938 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 3.25% 5/15/2051 |
7,753 |
4,956 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 4.75% 5/15/2052 |
16,756 |
13,776 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 5.625% 7/15/2054 |
2,833 |
2,650 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 4.95% 5/15/2062 |
3,590 |
2,954 | ||
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 6.05% 2/15/2063 |
4,160 |
4,057 | ||
Viatris, Inc. 4.00% 6/22/2050 |
31,430 |
20,126 | ||
|
1,397,144 | |||
| ||||
Industrials 6.65% | ||||
BAE Systems PLC 5.30% 3/26/2034 (a) |
46,170 |
46,633 | ||
BAE Systems PLC 5.50% 3/26/2054 (a) |
2,623 |
2,523 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 2.75% 2/1/2026 |
39,990 |
39,456 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 2.196% 2/4/2026 |
25,000 |
24,562 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 3.10% 5/1/2026 |
7,750 |
7,636 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 5.04% 5/1/2027 |
2,000 |
2,013 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 3.25% 2/1/2028 |
32,764 |
31,621 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 6.298% 5/1/2029 |
2,000 |
2,104 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 5.15% 5/1/2030 |
20,913 |
21,106 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 3.625% 2/1/2031 |
4,658 |
4,344 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 6.388% 5/1/2031 |
31,681 |
33,821 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 6.528% 5/1/2034 |
7,158 |
7,643 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 3.90% 5/1/2049 |
8,164 |
5,728 |
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|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Industrials (continued) | ||||
Boeing Co. (The) 5.805% 5/1/2050 |
USD5,386 |
$5,047 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 6.858% 5/1/2054 |
2,000 |
2,135 | ||
Boeing Co. (The) 7.008% 5/1/2064 |
10,000 |
10,692 | ||
Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC 3.05% 2/15/2051 |
3,538 |
2,284 | ||
Canadian National Railway Co. 4.375% 9/18/2034 |
12,848 |
12,177 | ||
Canadian National Railway Co. 6.125% 11/1/2053 |
4,393 |
4,665 | ||
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. 4.80% 3/30/2030 |
15,836 |
15,958 | ||
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. 5.20% 3/30/2035 |
35,056 |
34,949 | ||
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. 3.00% 12/2/2041 |
5,582 |
3,963 | ||
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. 3.10% 12/2/2051 |
17,398 |
11,158 | ||
Carrier Global Corp. 5.90% 3/15/2034 |
2,824 |
2,968 | ||
CSX Corp. 3.80% 3/1/2028 |
19,416 |
19,157 | ||
CSX Corp. 4.25% 3/15/2029 |
12,943 |
12,859 | ||
CSX Corp. 2.40% 2/15/2030 |
5,892 |
5,385 | ||
CSX Corp. 4.10% 11/15/2032 |
10,489 |
9,994 | ||
CSX Corp. 5.20% 11/15/2033 |
7,415 |
7,524 | ||
CSX Corp. 4.30% 3/1/2048 |
10,688 |
8,647 | ||
CSX Corp. 4.50% 3/15/2049 |
6,729 |
5,587 | ||
CSX Corp. 2.50% 5/15/2051 |
12,071 |
6,797 | ||
Hexcel Corp. 5.875% 2/26/2035 |
6,026 |
6,019 | ||
Honeywell International, Inc. 4.75% 2/1/2032 |
4,513 |
4,499 | ||
Ingersoll-Rand, Inc. 5.45% 6/15/2034 |
1,992 |
2,012 | ||
Johnson Controls International PLC 4.90% 12/1/2032 |
10,758 |
10,646 | ||
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 5.40% 7/31/2033 |
7,971 |
8,081 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 2.55% 11/1/2029 |
3,485 |
3,201 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 5.05% 8/1/2030 |
14,320 |
14,659 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 4.45% 3/1/2033 |
5,753 |
5,535 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 5.10% 5/1/2035 |
5,215 |
5,153 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 3.40% 11/1/2049 |
2,406 |
1,638 | ||
Norfolk Southern Corp. 5.35% 8/1/2054 |
15,816 |
14,789 | ||
Northrop Grumman Corp. 4.70% 3/15/2033 |
31,860 |
31,351 | ||
Northrop Grumman Corp. 4.90% 6/1/2034 |
11,160 |
10,986 | ||
Northrop Grumman Corp. 4.95% 3/15/2053 |
6,083 |
5,341 | ||
RTX Corp. 4.125% 11/16/2028 |
4,205 |
4,163 | ||
RTX Corp. 1.90% 9/1/2031 |
10,014 |
8,454 | ||
RTX Corp. 6.10% 3/15/2034 |
13,414 |
14,296 | ||
RTX Corp. 2.82% 9/1/2051 |
6,000 |
3,583 | ||
RTX Corp. 3.03% 3/15/2052 |
7,000 |
4,355 | ||
RTX Corp. 6.40% 3/15/2054 |
13,866 |
14,802 | ||
Siemens Funding BV 5.20% 5/28/2035 (a) |
15,000 |
15,076 | ||
Siemens Funding BV 5.80% 5/28/2055 (a) |
13,887 |
14,110 | ||
Siemens Funding BV 5.90% 5/28/2065 (a) |
5,557 |
5,645 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.75% 7/15/2025 |
388 |
388 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 2.40% 2/5/2030 |
750 |
686 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 2.80% 2/14/2032 |
31,546 |
28,068 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 2.891% 4/6/2036 |
27,376 |
22,278 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.375% 2/14/2042 |
4,360 |
3,291 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 4.30% 3/1/2049 |
832 |
673 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.25% 2/5/2050 |
424 |
285 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.50% 2/14/2053 |
4,627 |
3,187 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 5.60% 12/1/2054 |
4,318 |
4,186 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.839% 3/20/2060 |
3,297 |
2,306 | ||
Union Pacific Corp. 3.75% 2/5/2070 |
1,832 |
1,210 | ||
Waste Management, Inc. 1.50% 3/15/2031 |
3,889 |
3,288 | ||
Waste Management, Inc. 4.95% 3/15/2035 |
15,303 |
15,108 | ||
|
704,484 | |||
| ||||
Consumer staples 5.94% | ||||
Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc. 3.50% 6/1/2030 |
7,500 |
7,187 | ||
Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc. 5.00% 6/15/2034 |
5,311 |
5,347 | ||
Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc. 5.55% 1/23/2049 |
2,500 |
2,455 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 3.215% 9/6/2026 |
11,050 |
10,866 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 4.70% 4/2/2027 |
6,420 |
6,435 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 3.557% 8/15/2027 |
47,755 |
46,720 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 3.462% 9/6/2029 |
2,000 |
1,903 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Consumer staples (continued) | ||||
BAT Capital Corp. 4.906% 4/2/2030 |
USD2,500 |
$2,514 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 6.421% 8/2/2033 |
15,511 |
16,636 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 6.00% 2/20/2034 |
6,964 |
7,248 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 5.625% 8/15/2035 |
5,517 |
5,530 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 4.54% 8/15/2047 |
111 |
88 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 4.758% 9/6/2049 |
2,283 |
1,834 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 5.65% 3/16/2052 |
3,687 |
3,338 | ||
BAT Capital Corp. 6.25% 8/15/2055 |
14,796 |
14,593 | ||
BAT International Finance PLC 3.95% 6/15/2025 (a) |
8,250 |
8,246 | ||
Campbells Co. (The) 4.75% 3/23/2035 |
15,315 |
14,446 | ||
Coca-Cola Co. 5.30% 5/13/2054 |
8,888 |
8,504 | ||
Coca-Cola Co. 5.20% 1/14/2055 |
21,848 |
20,463 | ||
Coca-Cola Co. 5.40% 5/13/2064 |
9,279 |
8,792 | ||
Conagra Brands, Inc. 4.60% 11/1/2025 |
5,092 |
5,087 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 3.60% 2/15/2028 |
2,813 |
2,751 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 2.875% 5/1/2030 |
3,082 |
2,824 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 4.80% 5/1/2030 |
3,274 |
3,272 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 2.25% 8/1/2031 |
24,098 |
20,665 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 4.75% 5/9/2032 |
24,906 |
24,445 | ||
Constellation Brands, Inc. 4.90% 5/1/2033 |
11,113 |
10,883 | ||
Diageo Investment Corp. 5.125% 8/15/2030 |
7,717 |
7,876 | ||
Diageo Investment Corp. 5.625% 4/15/2035 |
5,095 |
5,232 | ||
Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc. 3.80% 5/1/2050 |
1,825 |
1,307 | ||
Kroger Co. 5.00% 9/15/2034 |
3,711 |
3,616 | ||
Kroger Co. 5.50% 9/15/2054 |
9,790 |
9,060 | ||
Mars, Inc. 4.80% 3/1/2030 (a) |
8,000 |
8,053 | ||
Mars, Inc. 5.00% 3/1/2032 (a) |
34,555 |
34,687 | ||
Mars, Inc. 5.20% 3/1/2035 (a) |
46,364 |
46,208 | ||
Mars, Inc. 5.70% 5/1/2055 (a) |
46,895 |
45,527 | ||
Mars, Inc. 5.80% 5/1/2065 (a) |
3,072 |
2,983 | ||
Mondelez International, Inc. 4.75% 8/28/2034 |
4,685 |
4,550 | ||
Mondelez International, Inc. 5.125% 5/6/2035 |
4,022 |
3,961 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 3.375% 8/11/2025 |
27,395 |
27,314 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 4.875% 2/13/2026 |
25,000 |
25,064 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 3.375% 8/15/2029 |
2,363 |
2,268 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 2.10% 5/1/2030 |
9,300 |
8,277 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 1.75% 11/1/2030 |
12,193 |
10,511 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 4.75% 11/1/2031 |
12,576 |
12,551 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 5.75% 11/17/2032 |
7,503 |
7,859 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 5.375% 2/15/2033 |
7,900 |
8,059 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 5.625% 9/7/2033 |
16,910 |
17,484 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 5.25% 2/13/2034 |
8,055 |
8,108 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 4.90% 11/1/2034 |
26,270 |
25,772 | ||
Philip Morris International, Inc. 4.875% 4/30/2035 |
5,216 |
5,047 | ||
Reynolds American, Inc. 4.45% 6/12/2025 |
20,220 |
20,219 | ||
Reynolds American, Inc. 5.85% 8/15/2045 |
15,050 |
14,195 | ||
|
628,860 | |||
| ||||
Information technology 5.21% | ||||
Accenture Capital, Inc. 4.50% 10/4/2034 |
14,553 |
13,987 | ||
Amphenol Corp. 5.00% 1/15/2035 |
6,519 |
6,469 | ||
Amphenol Corp. 5.375% 11/15/2054 |
2,713 |
2,590 | ||
Analog Devices, Inc. 2.10% 10/1/2031 |
6,258 |
5,410 | ||
Analog Devices, Inc. 5.05% 4/1/2034 |
2,803 |
2,826 | ||
Analog Devices, Inc. 2.80% 10/1/2041 |
4,230 |
3,014 | ||
Analog Devices, Inc. 2.95% 10/1/2051 |
7,728 |
4,872 | ||
Analog Devices, Inc. 5.30% 4/1/2054 |
17,096 |
16,022 | ||
Apple, Inc. 4.75% 5/12/2035 |
11,305 |
11,219 | ||
Broadcom, Inc. 4.75% 4/15/2029 |
3,562 |
3,590 | ||
Broadcom, Inc. 4.15% 11/15/2030 |
9,239 |
9,012 | ||
Broadcom, Inc. 3.469% 4/15/2034 (a) |
37,220 |
32,705 | ||
Broadcom, Inc. 4.80% 10/15/2034 |
2,079 |
2,025 | ||
Broadcom, Inc. 4.926% 5/15/2037 (a) |
20,881 |
19,904 | ||
Cisco Systems, Inc. 5.05% 2/26/2034 |
69,323 |
69,880 | ||
Cisco Systems, Inc. 5.10% 2/24/2035 |
44,795 |
45,075 |
9 |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Information technology (continued) | ||||
Cisco Systems, Inc. 5.30% 2/26/2054 |
USD9,701 |
$9,188 | ||
Cisco Systems, Inc. 5.35% 2/26/2064 |
3,016 |
2,827 | ||
Microchip Technology, Inc. 4.90% 3/15/2028 |
10,639 |
10,680 | ||
Microchip Technology, Inc. 5.05% 3/15/2029 |
38,775 |
39,031 | ||
Microchip Technology, Inc. 5.05% 2/15/2030 |
24,025 |
24,103 | ||
Oracle Corp. 5.50% 8/3/2035 |
64,456 |
64,779 | ||
Oracle Corp. 6.00% 8/3/2055 |
6,798 |
6,595 | ||
ServiceNow, Inc. 1.40% 9/1/2030 |
17,661 |
15,116 | ||
Synopsys, Inc. 5.15% 4/1/2035 |
66,979 |
66,227 | ||
Synopsys, Inc. 5.70% 4/1/2055 |
55,747 |
53,257 | ||
Texas Instruments, Inc. 4.60% 2/8/2029 |
4,464 |
4,515 | ||
Texas Instruments, Inc. 5.15% 2/8/2054 |
7,213 |
6,618 | ||
|
551,536 | |||
| ||||
Communication services 4.94% | ||||
Alphabet, Inc. 5.25% 5/15/2055 |
6,555 |
6,344 | ||
Alphabet, Inc. 5.30% 5/15/2065 |
2,025 |
1,940 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 2.30% 6/1/2027 |
1,221 |
1,172 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 4.35% 3/1/2029 |
19,002 |
18,915 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 4.30% 2/15/2030 |
15,022 |
14,869 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 2.25% 2/1/2032 |
12,533 |
10,638 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 2.55% 12/1/2033 |
7,369 |
6,063 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 5.40% 2/15/2034 |
20,914 |
21,205 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 4.50% 5/15/2035 |
8,216 |
7,732 | ||
AT&T, Inc. 3.50% 9/15/2053 |
63,136 |
41,998 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 4.908% 7/23/2025 |
1,297 |
1,297 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 3.75% 2/15/2028 |
1,050 |
1,025 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 4.20% 3/15/2028 |
2,959 |
2,922 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 2.80% 4/1/2031 |
4,864 |
4,272 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 4.40% 4/1/2033 |
8,000 |
7,383 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 6.384% 10/23/2035 |
6,700 |
6,882 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 4.80% 3/1/2050 |
11,918 |
9,224 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 3.70% 4/1/2051 |
37,616 |
24,236 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 3.90% 6/1/2052 |
20,188 |
13,337 | ||
Charter Communications Operating, LLC 5.25% 4/1/2053 |
49,690 |
40,995 | ||
Comcast Corp. 4.80% 5/15/2033 |
6,091 |
5,988 | ||
Comcast Corp. 5.30% 6/1/2034 |
28,413 |
28,689 | ||
Comcast Corp. 5.30% 5/15/2035 |
11,143 |
11,170 | ||
Comcast Corp. 5.65% 6/1/2054 |
33,721 |
32,079 | ||
Comcast Corp. 6.05% 5/15/2055 |
3,052 |
3,048 | ||
Meta Platforms, Inc. 4.75% 8/15/2034 |
6,571 |
6,500 | ||
Meta Platforms, Inc. 5.40% 8/15/2054 |
6,896 |
6,551 | ||
Netflix, Inc. 4.90% 8/15/2034 |
1,939 |
1,949 | ||
Netflix, Inc. 5.40% 8/15/2054 |
1,251 |
1,205 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 1.50% 2/15/2026 |
5,250 |
5,128 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 2.05% 2/15/2028 |
2,185 |
2,054 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 3.875% 4/15/2030 |
14,841 |
14,316 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 2.55% 2/15/2031 |
7,659 |
6,787 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.125% 5/15/2032 |
3,699 |
3,732 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.15% 4/15/2034 |
1,677 |
1,675 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 3.00% 2/15/2041 |
12,986 |
9,295 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 3.40% 10/15/2052 |
23,466 |
15,339 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.75% 1/15/2054 |
5,653 |
5,424 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.50% 1/15/2055 |
2,290 |
2,119 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.25% 6/15/2055 |
1,381 |
1,231 | ||
T-Mobile USA, Inc. 5.875% 11/15/2055 |
9,098 |
8,868 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 1.68% 10/30/2030 |
6,715 |
5,756 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 1.75% 1/20/2031 |
10,248 |
8,740 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 2.55% 3/21/2031 |
2,849 |
2,524 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 2.355% 3/15/2032 |
455 |
388 | ||
Verizon Communications Inc. 4.78% 2/15/2035 |
32,723 |
31,504 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 5.25% 4/2/2035 |
3,300 |
3,289 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 2.65% 11/20/2040 |
31,866 |
21,976 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 3.40% 3/22/2041 |
9,712 |
7,346 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 2.875% 11/20/2050 |
2,503 |
1,521 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Communication services (continued) | ||||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 3.875% 3/1/2052 |
USD784 |
$569 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 5.50% 2/23/2054 |
152 |
145 | ||
Verizon Communications, Inc. 2.987% 10/30/2056 |
12,909 |
7,565 | ||
Vodafone Group PLC 4.25% 9/17/2050 |
1,425 |
1,079 | ||
WarnerMedia Holdings, Inc. 5.141% 3/15/2052 |
23,438 |
15,203 | ||
|
523,201 | |||
| ||||
Energy 4.16% | ||||
Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. 2.05% 7/15/2025 |
11,363 |
11,326 | ||
Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. 3.85% 6/1/2027 |
11,548 |
11,386 | ||
Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. 2.95% 7/15/2030 |
2,690 |
2,439 | ||
Chevron Corp. 2.236% 5/11/2030 |
8,314 |
7,511 | ||
Chevron Corp. 3.078% 5/11/2050 |
2,914 |
1,900 | ||
Chevron USA, Inc. 0.687% 8/12/2025 |
4,896 |
4,860 | ||
Chevron USA, Inc. 4.405% 2/26/2027 |
36,121 |
36,371 | ||
Chevron USA, Inc. 1.018% 8/12/2027 |
6,577 |
6,156 | ||
Chevron USA, Inc. 3.25% 10/15/2029 |
4,050 |
3,888 | ||
Chevron USA, Inc. 2.343% 8/12/2050 |
1,497 |
829 | ||
ConocoPhillips Co. 4.70% 1/15/2030 |
15,000 |
15,075 | ||
ConocoPhillips Co. 3.80% 3/15/2052 |
8,143 |
5,706 | ||
ConocoPhillips Co. 5.30% 5/15/2053 |
5,564 |
4,971 | ||
ConocoPhillips Co. 5.50% 1/15/2055 |
26,206 |
24,186 | ||
Devon Energy Corp. 5.75% 9/15/2054 |
37,645 |
32,763 | ||
Diamondback Energy, Inc. 5.55% 4/1/2035 |
42,519 |
41,957 | ||
Energy Transfer, LP 5.70% 4/1/2035 |
6,439 |
6,424 | ||
Eni SpA 5.50% 5/15/2034 (a) |
4,159 |
4,126 | ||
Eni SpA 5.75% 5/19/2035 (a) |
10,897 |
10,917 | ||
Eni SpA 5.95% 5/15/2054 (a) |
11,151 |
10,447 | ||
EOG Resources, Inc. 5.65% 12/1/2054 |
3,995 |
3,786 | ||
Equinor ASA 3.70% 4/6/2050 |
3,550 |
2,589 | ||
Exxon Mobil Corp. 2.61% 10/15/2030 |
1,387 |
1,272 | ||
Exxon Mobil Corp. 3.452% 4/15/2051 |
21,062 |
14,537 | ||
Occidental Petroleum Corp. 5.55% 10/1/2034 |
7,611 |
7,200 | ||
ONEOK, Inc. 5.05% 11/1/2034 |
12,679 |
12,087 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 4.50% 1/23/2026 |
5,371 |
5,272 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.875% 8/4/2026 |
4,349 |
4,310 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.50% 3/13/2027 |
16,700 |
16,394 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 5.35% 2/12/2028 |
4,000 |
3,762 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.50% 1/23/2029 |
20,810 |
19,915 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 8.75% 6/2/2029 |
4,000 |
4,053 | ||
Petroleos Mexicanos 6.84% 1/23/2030 |
19,000 |
17,767 | ||
Saudi Arabian Oil Co. 5.75% 7/17/2054 (a) |
2,715 |
2,483 | ||
Shell Finance US, Inc. 2.75% 4/6/2030 |
21,750 |
20,229 | ||
Shell Finance US, Inc. 3.25% 4/6/2050 |
17,000 |
11,267 | ||
Shell International Finance BV 3.875% 11/13/2028 |
1,387 |
1,376 | ||
Shell International Finance BV 3.00% 11/26/2051 |
2,085 |
1,303 | ||
Targa Resources Corp. 5.55% 8/15/2035 |
12,620 |
12,380 | ||
TotalEnergies Capital International SA 2.986% 6/29/2041 |
2,066 |
1,481 | ||
TotalEnergies Capital International SA 3.127% 5/29/2050 |
12,809 |
8,221 | ||
TotalEnergies Capital SA 5.488% 4/5/2054 |
5,148 |
4,810 | ||
TotalEnergies Capital SA 5.275% 9/10/2054 |
22,640 |
20,585 | ||
|
440,317 | |||
| ||||
Consumer discretionary 3.54% | ||||
Amazon.com, Inc. 1.50% 6/3/2030 |
5,641 |
4,952 | ||
Amazon.com, Inc. 3.60% 4/13/2032 |
13,178 |
12,479 | ||
American Honda Finance Corp. 1.20% 7/8/2025 |
2,546 |
2,537 | ||
Daimler Trucks Finance North America, LLC 5.125% 1/19/2028 (a) |
3,467 |
3,509 | ||
Daimler Trucks Finance North America, LLC 5.375% 6/25/2034 (a) |
12,783 |
12,607 | ||
Ford Motor Co. 3.25% 2/12/2032 |
6,305 |
5,206 | ||
Ford Motor Co. 5.291% 12/8/2046 |
10,555 |
8,329 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 3.375% 11/13/2025 |
240 |
238 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 6.95% 3/6/2026 |
1,390 |
1,399 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 6.95% 6/10/2026 |
1,070 |
1,082 |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Consumer discretionary (continued) | ||||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 2.70% 8/10/2026 |
USD200 |
$194 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 4.271% 1/9/2027 |
200 |
196 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 5.85% 5/17/2027 |
17,800 |
17,784 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 4.95% 5/28/2027 |
2,435 |
2,400 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 4.125% 8/17/2027 |
855 |
825 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 3.815% 11/2/2027 |
220 |
210 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 7.35% 11/4/2027 |
1,545 |
1,591 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 2.90% 2/16/2028 |
200 |
185 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 5.918% 3/20/2028 |
25,500 |
25,559 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 6.80% 5/12/2028 |
4,405 |
4,499 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 6.798% 11/7/2028 |
8,322 |
8,502 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 2.90% 2/10/2029 |
810 |
725 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 5.875% 11/7/2029 |
17,600 |
17,388 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 7.35% 3/6/2030 |
960 |
1,000 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 7.20% 6/10/2030 |
3,740 |
3,884 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 4.00% 11/13/2030 |
2,000 |
1,782 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 3.625% 6/17/2031 |
570 |
491 | ||
Ford Motor Credit Co., LLC 6.532% 3/19/2032 |
9,400 |
9,372 | ||
General Motors Co. 5.95% 4/1/2049 |
6,955 |
6,282 | ||
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. 5.35% 1/7/2030 |
12,600 |
12,614 | ||
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. 5.45% 9/6/2034 |
10,055 |
9,631 | ||
General Motors Financial Co., Inc. 5.90% 1/7/2035 |
13,389 |
13,216 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 2.50% 4/15/2027 |
3,400 |
3,300 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 2.95% 6/15/2029 |
5,000 |
4,755 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 1.375% 3/15/2031 |
757 |
634 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 4.85% 6/25/2031 |
10,263 |
10,434 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 4.95% 6/25/2034 |
32,524 |
32,551 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 3.125% 12/15/2049 |
1,102 |
722 | ||
Home Depot, Inc. 5.30% 6/25/2054 |
49,668 |
46,490 | ||
Hyundai Capital America 2.375% 10/15/2027 (a) |
1,745 |
1,645 | ||
Hyundai Capital America 4.55% 9/26/2029 (a) |
16,992 |
16,665 | ||
Marriott International, Inc. 5.35% 3/15/2035 |
12,285 |
12,123 | ||
McDonald’s Corp. 5.00% 5/17/2029 |
1,524 |
1,558 | ||
McDonald’s Corp. 4.95% 3/3/2035 |
19,114 |
18,854 | ||
McDonald’s Corp. 4.60% 5/26/2045 |
1,962 |
1,673 | ||
McDonald’s Corp. 4.45% 3/1/2047 |
5,665 |
4,687 | ||
McDonald’s Corp. 3.625% 9/1/2049 |
4,467 |
3,188 | ||
Morongo Band of Mission Indians (The) 7.00% 10/1/2039 (a) |
5,000 |
5,232 | ||
Starbucks Corp. 4.85% 2/8/2027 |
13,970 |
14,065 | ||
Starbucks Corp. 5.40% 5/15/2035 |
6,219 |
6,235 | ||
|
375,479 | |||
| ||||
Real estate 2.03% | ||||
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 4.30% 1/15/2026 |
1,050 |
1,048 | ||
Boston Properties, LP 2.55% 4/1/2032 |
1,489 |
1,233 | ||
Boston Properties, LP 2.45% 10/1/2033 |
2,723 |
2,136 | ||
Boston Properties, LP 6.50% 1/15/2034 |
5,579 |
5,870 | ||
Boston Properties, LP 5.75% 1/15/2035 |
50,549 |
50,035 | ||
COPT Defense Properties, LP 2.25% 3/15/2026 |
3,191 |
3,125 | ||
Crown Castle, Inc. 5.00% 1/11/2028 |
11,077 |
11,149 | ||
Equinix Europe 2 Financing Corp., LLC 5.50% 6/15/2034 |
30,673 |
31,129 | ||
Equinix, Inc. 3.20% 11/18/2029 |
9,053 |
8,530 | ||
Equinix, Inc. 2.15% 7/15/2030 |
1,932 |
1,707 | ||
ERP Operating, LP 4.65% 9/15/2034 |
9,449 |
9,007 | ||
Kilroy Realty, LP 6.25% 1/15/2036 |
1,501 |
1,466 | ||
Prologis, LP 4.75% 6/15/2033 |
5,665 |
5,558 | ||
Prologis, LP 5.125% 1/15/2034 |
15,137 |
15,157 | ||
Prologis, LP 5.00% 3/15/2034 |
8,500 |
8,378 | ||
Prologis, LP 5.00% 1/31/2035 |
2,656 |
2,610 | ||
Prologis, LP 5.25% 6/15/2053 |
9,031 |
8,269 | ||
Prologis, LP 5.25% 3/15/2054 |
1,855 |
1,703 | ||
Public Storage Operating Co. 2.30% 5/1/2031 |
2,094 |
1,837 | ||
VICI Properties, LP 4.75% 4/1/2028 |
4,356 |
4,357 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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Bonds, notes & other debt instruments (continued) |
|
Principal amount (000) |
Value (000) | |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans (continued) | ||||
Real estate (continued) | ||||
VICI Properties, LP 4.95% 2/15/2030 |
USD13,400 |
$13,304 | ||
VICI Properties, LP 5.125% 5/15/2032 |
20,803 |
20,399 | ||
VICI Properties, LP 5.625% 4/1/2035 |
7,517 |
7,434 | ||
|
215,441 | |||
| ||||
Materials 1.34% | ||||
BHP Billiton Finance (USA), Ltd. 5.30% 2/21/2035 |
5,000 |
5,007 | ||
BHP Billiton Finance (USA), Ltd. 5.50% 9/8/2053 |
4,445 |
4,272 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 5.15% 2/15/2034 |
9,808 |
9,602 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 5.35% 3/15/2035 |
5,583 |
5,417 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 4.80% 5/15/2049 |
21,763 |
17,225 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 3.60% 11/15/2050 |
1,874 |
1,226 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 5.60% 2/15/2054 |
11,858 |
10,475 | ||
Dow Chemical Co. (The) 5.95% 3/15/2055 |
4,675 |
4,341 | ||
LYB International Finance III, LLC 6.15% 5/15/2035 |
7,084 |
7,197 | ||
Minera Mexico, SA de CV 5.625% 2/12/2032 (a) |
9,000 |
8,924 | ||
Nutrien, Ltd. 5.80% 3/27/2053 |
435 |
418 | ||
OCI NV 6.70% 3/16/2033 (a) |
5,726 |
6,265 | ||
Rio Tinto Finance (USA) PLC 5.25% 3/14/2035 |
15,687 |
15,646 | ||
Rio Tinto Finance (USA) PLC 5.75% 3/14/2055 |
19,500 |
18,975 | ||
Sherwin-Williams Co. 2.20% 3/15/2032 |
8,365 |
7,097 | ||
Sherwin-Williams Co. 2.90% 3/15/2052 |
3,515 |
2,083 | ||
Vale Overseas, Ltd. 6.40% 6/28/2054 |
18,220 |
17,436 | ||
|
141,606 | |||
Total corporate bonds, notes & loans |
9,057,077 | |||
U.S. Treasury bonds & notes 7.72% | ||||
U.S. Treasury 7.72% | ||||
U.S. Treasury 3.75% 4/30/2027 |
34,928 |
34,824 | ||
U.S. Treasury 4.125% 11/15/2027 |
3,406 |
3,425 | ||
U.S. Treasury 3.75% 5/15/2028 |
56,056 |
55,892 | ||
U.S. Treasury 4.00% 7/31/2029 |
2,502 |
2,509 | ||
U.S. Treasury 3.875% 4/30/2030 |
378,209 |
376,732 | ||
U.S. Treasury 4.00% 4/30/2032 |
28,001 |
27,722 | ||
U.S. Treasury 4.25% 5/15/2035 (c) |
180,482 |
178,480 | ||
U.S. Treasury 5.00% 5/15/2045 |
85,601 |
86,470 | ||
U.S. Treasury 4.625% 2/15/2055 (c) |
54,946 |
52,420 | ||
|
818,474 | |||
Asset-backed obligations 0.99% | ||||
Castlelake Aircraft Securitization Trust, Series 2021-1, Class A, 2.868% 5/11/2037 (a)(d) |
9,791 |
8,970 | ||
CF Hippolyta, LLC, Series 2020-1, Class A1, 1.69% 7/15/2060 (a)(d) |
9,269 |
9,201 | ||
CF Hippolyta, LLC, Series 2020-1, Class A2, 1.99% 7/15/2060 (a)(d) |
700 |
643 | ||
CF Hippolyta, LLC, Series 2021-1, Class A1, 1.53% 3/15/2061 (a)(d) |
6,625 |
6,382 | ||
New Economy Assets Phase 1 Issuer, LLC, Series 2021-1, Class A1, 1.91% 10/20/2061 (a)(d) |
85,198 |
80,024 | ||
|
105,220 | |||
Bonds & notes of governments & government agencies outside the U.S. 0.11% | ||||
Abu Dhabi (Emirate of) 5.50% 4/30/2054 (a) |
6,505 |
6,351 | ||
United Mexican States 7.375% 5/13/2055 |
5,295 |
5,256 | ||
|
11,607 | |||
Municipals 0.05% | ||||
Ohio 0.05% | ||||
Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Auth., Federal Lease Rev. Bonds (VA Cleveland Health Care Center Project), Series 2021, 4.425% 5/1/2031 |
5,695 |
5,014 | ||
Total bonds, notes & other debt instruments (cost: $10,259,117,000) |
9,997,392 |
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Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
Short-term securities 4.94% |
|
Shares |
Value (000) | |
Money market investments 4.94% | ||||
Capital Group Central Cash Fund 4.29% (e)(f) |
5,229,805 |
$522,980 | ||
Total short-term securities (cost: $522,957,000) |
522,980 | |||
Total investment securities 99.31% (cost: $10,782,074,000) |
10,520,372 | |||
Other assets less liabilities 0.69% |
72,809 | |||
Net assets 100.00% |
$10,593,181 |
Futures contracts
Contracts |
Type |
Number of contracts |
Expiration date |
Notional amount (000) |
Value and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) at 5/31/2025 (000) |
2 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures |
Long |
4,085 |
10/3/2025 |
USD847,382 |
$944 |
5 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures |
Long |
2,520 |
10/3/2025 |
272,632 |
1,001 |
10 Year U.S. Treasury Note Futures |
Short |
651 |
9/30/2025 |
(72,098 ) |
(465 ) |
10 Year Ultra U.S. Treasury Note Futures |
Short |
14,161 |
9/30/2025 |
(1,593,776 ) |
(16,100 ) |
20 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Futures |
Long |
8,521 |
9/30/2025 |
961,009 |
12,859 |
30 Year Ultra U.S. Treasury Bond Futures |
Short |
2,357 |
9/30/2025 |
(273,559 ) |
(3,615 ) |
|
|
|
|
$(5,376 ) |
Swap contracts
Credit default swaps
Centrally cleared credit default swaps on credit indices — buy protection
Reference index |
Financing rate paid |
Payment frequency |
Expiration date |
Notional amount (000) |
Value at 5/31/2025 (000) |
Upfront premium paid (received) (000) |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) at 5/31/2025 (000) |
CDX.NA.IG.44 |
1.00% |
Quarterly |
6/20/2030 |
USD177,200 |
$(3,550 ) |
$(3,275 ) |
$(275 ) |
Investments in affiliates(f)
|
Value at 6/1/2024 (000) |
Additions (000) |
Reductions (000) |
Net realized gain (loss) (000) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) (000) |
Value at 5/31/2025 (000) |
Dividend or interest income (000) |
Short-term securities 4.94% |
|||||||
Money market investments 4.94% |
|||||||
Capital Group Central Cash Fund 4.29% (e) |
$575,264 |
$4,847,419 |
$4,899,623 |
$13 |
$(93 ) |
$522,980 |
$31,325 |
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
14 |
(a) |
Acquired in a transaction exempt from registration under Rule 144A or, for commercial paper, Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. May be resold in the U.S. in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. The total value of all such securities was $860,190,000, which represented 8.12% of the net assets of the fund. |
(b) |
Step bond; coupon rate may change at a later date. |
(c) |
All or a portion of this security was pledged as collateral. The total value of pledged collateral was $32,858,000, which represented 0.31% of the net assets of the fund. |
(d) |
Principal payments may be made periodically. Therefore, the effective maturity date may be earlier than the stated maturity date. |
(e) |
Rate represents the seven-day yield at 5/31/2025. |
(f) |
Part of the same “group of investment companies“ as the fund as defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. |
Key to abbreviation(s) |
Auth. = Authority |
CME = CME Group |
DAC = Designated Activity Company |
ICE = Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. |
Rev. = Revenue |
SOFR = Secured Overnight Financing Rate |
USD = U.S. dollars |
UST = U.S. Treasury |
Refer to the notes to financial statements.
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Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
Financial statements
Statement of assets and liabilities at May 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)
Assets: |
||
Investment securities, at value: |
||
Unaffiliated issuers (cost: $10,259,117) |
$9,997,392 |
|
Affiliated issuers (cost: $522,957) |
522,980 |
$10,520,372 |
Cash |
134 | |
Receivables for: |
||
Sales of investments |
129,779 |
|
Dividends and interest |
113,445 |
|
Variation margin on futures contracts |
927 |
244,151 |
|
10,764,657 | |
Liabilities: |
||
Payables for: |
||
Purchases of investments |
170,104 |
|
Trustees’ deferred compensation |
82 |
|
Variation margin on futures contracts |
1,190 |
|
Variation margin on centrally cleared swap contracts |
96 |
|
Other |
4 |
171,476 |
Net assets at May 31, 2025 |
$10,593,181 | |
Net assets consist of: |
||
Capital paid in on shares of beneficial interest |
$13,060,219 | |
Total distributable earnings (accumulated loss) |
(2,467,038) | |
Net assets at May 31, 2025 |
$10,593,181 |
Shares
of beneficial interest issued and outstanding (no stated par value) —
unlimited shares authorized (1,273,312 total
shares outstanding)
|
Net assets |
Shares outstanding |
Net asset value per share |
Class M |
$10,593,181 |
1,273,312 |
$8.32 |
Refer to the notes to financial statements.
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
16 |
Financial statements (continued)
Statement of operations for the year ended May 31, 2025
(dollars in thousands)
Investment income: |
||
Income: |
||
Interest from unaffiliated issuers |
$489,865 |
|
Dividends from affiliated issuers |
31,325 |
$521,190 |
Fees and expenses*: |
||
Reports to shareholders |
4 |
|
Registration statement and prospectus |
1 |
|
Trustees’ compensation |
53 |
|
Auditing and legal |
88 |
|
Custodian |
64 |
|
Other |
23 |
233 |
Net investment income |
520,957 | |
Net realized gain (loss) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation): |
||
Net realized gain (loss) on: |
||
Investments: |
||
Unaffiliated issuers |
(202,166 ) |
|
Affiliated issuers |
13 |
|
Futures contracts |
(3,179 ) |
|
Swap contracts |
(2,088 ) |
(207,420 ) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on: |
||
Investments: |
||
Unaffiliated issuers |
304,055 |
|
Affiliated issuers |
(93 ) |
|
Futures contracts |
(5,474 ) |
|
Swap contracts |
(212 ) |
298,276 |
Net realized gain (loss) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) |
90,856 | |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations |
$611,813 |
*
Additional information related to class-specific fees and expenses is included in the notes to financial statements.
Statements of changes in net assets
(dollars in thousands)
|
Year ended May 31, | |
|
2025 |
2024 |
|
| |
Operations: |
||
Net investment income |
$520,957 |
$493,278 |
Net realized gain (loss) |
(207,420 ) |
(600,797 ) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) |
298,276 |
493,089 |
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations |
611,813 |
385,570 |
Distributions paid or accrued to shareholders |
(513,755 ) |
(478,409 ) |
Net capital share transactions |
(553,896 ) |
(371,935 ) |
Total increase (decrease) in net assets |
(455,838 ) |
(464,774 ) |
Net assets: |
||
Beginning of year |
11,049,019 |
11,513,793 |
End of year |
$10,593,181 |
$11,049,019 |
Refer to the notes to financial statements.
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Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
Notes to financial statements
1. Organization
Capital Group Central Fund Series II (the ”trust”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), as an open-end, diversified management investment company and has issued one series of shares, Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund ("the fund"). The fund seeks to provide maximum total return consistent with capital preservation and prudent risk management.
The fund serves as a corporate bond portfolio for Capital Group and other funds, investment vehicles and accounts advised by Capital Group affiliates, and is not available to the public.
2. Significant accounting policies
The fund is an investment company that applies the accounting and reporting guidance issued in Topic 946 by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB"). The fund’s financial statements have been prepared to comply with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP“). These principles require the fund’s investment adviser to make estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts and disclosures. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Subsequent events, if any, have been evaluated through the date of issuance in the preparation of the financial statements. The fund follows the significant accounting policies described in this section, as well as the valuation policies described in the next section on valuation.
Operating segments — In the reporting period, the fund adopted FASB Accounting Standards Update 2023-07, Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. Adoption of the new standard impacted financial statement disclosures only and did not affect the fund’s financial position or the results of its operations. The fund represents a single operating segment as the operating results of the fund are monitored as a whole and its long-term asset allocation is determined in accordance with the terms of its prospectus, based on defined investment objectives that are executed by the fund’s portfolio management team. A senior executive team comprised of the fund’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, serves as the fund’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), who act in accordance with Board of Trustee reviews and approvals. The CODM uses financial information, such as changes in net assets from operations, changes in net assets from fund share transactions, and income and expense ratios, consistent with that presented within the accompanying financial statements and financial highlights to assess the fund’s profits and losses and to make resource allocation decisions. Segment assets are reflected in the statement of assets and liabilities as net assets, which consists primarily of investment securities, at value, and significant segment expenses are listed in the accompanying statement of operations.
Security transactions and related investment income — Security transactions are recorded by the fund as of the date the trades are executed with brokers. Realized gains and losses from security transactions are determined based on the specific identified cost of the securities. In the event a security is purchased with a delayed payment date, the fund will segregate liquid assets sufficient to meet its payment obligations. Dividend income is recognized on the ex-dividend date and interest income is recognized on an accrual basis. Market discounts, premiums and original issue discounts on fixed-income securities are amortized daily over the expected life of the security.
Distributions paid or accrued to shareholders — Income dividends are declared daily after the determination of the fund’s net investment income and are paid to shareholders monthly. Capital gain distributions are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
New accounting pronouncements — In December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09 (“the ASU”), Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which enhances income tax disclosures, including disclosure of income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. Management is currently evaluating the ASU and its impact to the financial statements.
3. Valuation
Capital Research and Management Company (“CRMC”), the fund’s investment adviser, values the fund’s investments at fair value as defined by U.S. GAAP. The net asset value per share is calculated once daily as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, normally 4 p.m. New York time, each day the New York Stock Exchange is open.
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Methods and inputs — The fund’s investment adviser uses the following methods and inputs to establish the fair value of the fund’s assets and liabilities. Use of particular methods and inputs may vary over time based on availability and relevance as market and economic conditions evolve.
Fixed-income securities, including short-term securities, are generally valued at evaluated prices obtained from third-party pricing vendors. Vendors value such securities based on one or more of the inputs described in the following table. The table provides examples of inputs that are commonly relevant for valuing particular classes of fixed-income securities in which the fund is authorized to invest. However, these classifications are not exclusive, and any of the inputs may be used to value any other class of fixed-income security.
Fixed-income class |
Examples of standard inputs |
All |
Benchmark yields, transactions, bids, offers, quotations from dealers and trading systems, new issues, spreads and other relationships observed in the markets among comparable securities; and proprietary pricing models such as yield measures calculated using factors such as cash flows, financial or collateral performance and other reference data (collectively referred to as “standard inputs”) |
Corporate bonds, notes & loans; convertible securities |
Standard inputs and underlying equity of the issuer |
Bonds & notes of governments & government agencies |
Standard inputs and interest rate volatilities |
Mortgage-backed; asset-backed obligations |
Standard inputs and cash flows, prepayment information, default rates, delinquency and loss assumptions, collateral characteristics, credit enhancements and specific deal information |
Municipal securities |
Standard inputs and, for certain distressed securities, cash flows or liquidation values using a net present value calculation based on inputs that include, but are not limited to, financial statements and debt contracts |
The Capital Group Central Cash Fund (“CCF”), a fund within the Capital Group Central Fund Series (“Central Funds“), is valued based upon a floating net asset value, which fluctuates with changes in the value of CCF’s portfolio securities. The underlying securities are valued based on the policies and procedures in CCF’s statement of additional information. Exchange-traded futures are generally valued at the official settlement price on the exchange or market on which such instruments are traded, as of the close of business on the day the futures are being valued. Swaps are generally valued using evaluated prices obtained from third-party pricing vendors who calculate these values based on market inputs that may include the yields of the indices referenced in the instrument and the relevant curve, dealer quotes, default probabilities and recovery rates, and terms of the contract.
Securities and other assets for which representative market quotations are not readily available or are considered unreliable by the fund’s investment adviser are fair valued as determined in good faith under fair valuation guidelines adopted by the fund’s investment adviser and approved by the board of trustees as further described. The investment adviser follows fair valuation guidelines, consistent with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules and guidance, to consider relevant principles and factors when making fair value determinations. The investment adviser considers relevant indications of value that are reasonably and timely available to it in determining the fair value to be assigned to a particular security, such as the type and cost of the security, restrictions on resale of the security, relevant financial or business developments of the issuer, actively traded similar or related securities, dealer or broker quotes, conversion or exchange rights on the security, related corporate actions, significant events occurring after the close of trading in the security, and changes in overall market conditions. In addition, the closing prices of equity securities that trade in markets outside U.S. time zones may be adjusted to reflect significant events that occur after the close of local trading but before the net asset value of each share class of the fund is determined. Fair valuations of investments that are not actively trading involve judgment and may differ materially from valuations that would have been used had greater market activity occurred.
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Processes and structure — The fund’s board of trustees has designated the fund’s investment adviser to make fair value determinations, subject to board oversight. The investment adviser has established a Joint Fair Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) to administer, implement and oversee the fair valuation process and to make fair value decisions. The Committee regularly reviews its own fair value decisions, as well as decisions made under its standing instructions to the investment adviser’s valuation team. The Committee reviews changes in fair value measurements from period to period, pricing vendor information and market data, and may, as deemed appropriate, update the fair valuation guidelines to better reflect the results of back testing and address new or evolving issues. Pricing decisions, processes and controls over security valuation are also subject to additional internal reviews facilitated by the investment adviser’s global risk management group. The Committee reports changes to the fair valuation guidelines to the board of trustees. The fund’s board and audit committee also regularly review reports that describe fair value determinations and methods.
Classifications — The fund’s investment adviser classifies the fund’s assets and liabilities into three levels based on the inputs used to value the assets or liabilities. Level 1 values are based on quoted prices in active markets for identical securities. Level 2 values are based on significant observable market inputs, such as quoted prices for similar securities and quoted prices in inactive markets. Certain securities trading outside the U.S. may transfer between Level 1 and Level 2 due to valuation adjustments resulting from significant market movements following the close of local trading. Level 3 values are based on significant unobservable inputs that reflect the investment adviser’s determination of assumptions that market participants might reasonably use in valuing the securities. The valuation levels are not necessarily an indication of the risk or liquidity associated with the underlying investment. For example, U.S. government securities are reflected as Level 2 because the inputs used to determine fair value may not always be quoted prices in an active market. The fund’s valuation levels as of May 31, 2025, were as follows (dollars in thousands):
|
Investment securities | |||
|
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
Total |
Assets: |
||||
Bonds, notes & other debt instruments: |
||||
Corporate bonds, notes & loans |
$— |
$9,057,077 |
$— |
$9,057,077 |
U.S. Treasury bonds & notes |
— |
818,474 |
— |
818,474 |
Asset-backed obligations |
— |
105,220 |
— |
105,220 |
Bonds & notes of governments & government agencies outside the U.S. |
— |
11,607 |
— |
11,607 |
Municipals |
— |
5,014 |
— |
5,014 |
Short-term securities |
522,980 |
— |
— |
522,980 |
Total |
$522,980 |
$9,997,392 |
$— |
$10,520,372 |
|
Other investments* | |||
|
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
Total |
Assets: |
||||
Unrealized appreciation on futures contracts |
$14,804 |
$— |
$— |
$14,804 |
Liabilities: |
||||
Unrealized depreciation on futures contracts |
(20,180 ) |
— |
— |
(20,180 ) |
Unrealized depreciation on centrally cleared credit default swaps |
— |
(275 ) |
— |
(275 ) |
Total |
$(5,376 ) |
$(275 ) |
$— |
$(5,651 ) |
*
Futures contracts and credit default swaps are not included in the fund’s investment portfolio.
4. Risk factors
Investing in the fund may involve certain risks including, but not limited to, those described below.
Market conditions — The prices of, and the income generated by, the securities held by the fund may decline – sometimes rapidly or unpredictably – due to various factors, including events or conditions affecting the general economy or particular industries or companies; overall market changes; local, regional or global political, social or economic instability; governmental, governmental agency or central bank responses to economic conditions; levels of public debt and deficits; changes in inflation rates; and currency exchange rate, interest rate and commodity price fluctuations.
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Economies and financial markets throughout the world are highly interconnected. Economic, financial or political events, trading and tariff arrangements, wars, terrorism, cybersecurity events, natural disasters, public health emergencies (such as the spread of infectious disease), bank failures and other circumstances in one country or region, including actions taken by governmental or quasi-governmental authorities in response to any of the foregoing, could have impacts on global economies or markets. As a result, whether or not the fund invests in securities of issuers located in or with significant exposure to the countries affected, the value and liquidity of the fund’s investments may be negatively affected by developments in other countries and regions.
Issuer risks — The prices of, and the income generated by, securities held by the fund may decline in response to various factors directly related to the issuers of such securities, including reduced demand for an issuer’s goods or services, poor management performance, major litigation, investigations or other controversies related to the issuer, changes in the issuer’s financial condition or credit rating, changes in government regulations affecting the issuer or its competitive environment and strategic initiatives such as mergers, acquisitions or dispositions and the market response to any such initiatives. An individual security may also be affected by factors relating to the industry or sector of the issuer or the securities markets as a whole, and conversely an industry or sector or the securities markets may be affected by a change in financial condition or other event affecting a single issuer. The fund’s portfolio managers invest in issuers based on their level of investment conviction. At times, the fund may invest more significantly in a single issuer, which could increase the risk of loss arising from the factors described above.
Investing in debt instruments — The prices of, and the income generated by, bonds and other debt securities held by the fund may be affected by factors such as the interest rates, maturities and credit quality of these securities.
Rising interest rates will generally cause the prices of bonds and other debt securities to fall. Also, when interest rates rise, issuers of debt securities that may be prepaid at any time, such as mortgage- or other asset-backed securities, are less likely to refinance existing debt securities, causing the average life of such securities to extend. A general change in interest rates may cause investors to sell debt securities on a large scale, which could also adversely affect the price and liquidity of debt securities and could also result in increased redemptions from the fund. Falling interest rates may cause an issuer to redeem, call or refinance a debt security before its stated maturity, which may result in the fund having to reinvest the proceeds in lower yielding securities. Longer maturity debt securities generally have greater sensitivity to changes in interest rates and may be subject to greater price fluctuations than shorter maturity debt securities.
Bonds and other debt securities are also subject to credit risk, which is the possibility that the credit strength of an issuer or guarantor will weaken or be perceived to be weaker, and/or an issuer of a debt security will fail to make timely payments of principal or interest and the security will go into default. Changes in actual or perceived creditworthiness may occur quickly. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could cause the value of the fund’s shares to decrease. Lower quality debt securities generally have higher rates of interest and may be subject to greater price fluctuations than higher quality debt securities. Credit risk is gauged, in part, by the credit ratings of the debt securities in which the fund invests. However, ratings are only the opinions of the rating agencies issuing them and are not guarantees as to credit quality or an evaluation of market risk. The fund’s investment adviser relies on its own credit analysts to research issuers and issues in assessing credit and default risks.
Investing in securities backed by the U.S. government — U.S. government securities are subject to market risk, interest rate risk and credit risk. Securities backed by the U.S. Treasury or the full faith and credit of the U.S. government are guaranteed only as to the timely payment of interest and principal when held to maturity. Accordingly, the current market values for these securities will fluctuate with changes in interest rates and the credit rating of the U.S. government. Notwithstanding that these securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, circumstances could arise that would prevent or delay the payment of interest or principal on these securities, which could adversely affect their value and cause the fund to suffer losses. Such an event could lead to significant disruptions in U.S. and global markets. Securities issued by U.S. government-sponsored entities and federal agencies and instrumentalities that are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government.
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Investing in derivatives — The use of derivatives involves a variety of risks, which may be different from, or greater than, the risks associated with investing in traditional securities, such as stocks and bonds. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with, and may be more sensitive to market events than, the underlying asset, rate or index, and a derivative instrument may cause the fund to lose significantly more than its initial investment. Derivatives may be difficult to value, difficult for the fund to buy or sell at an opportune time or price and difficult, or even impossible, to terminate or otherwise offset. The fund’s use of derivatives may result in losses to the fund, and investing in derivatives may reduce the fund’s returns and increase the fund’s price volatility. The fund’s counterparty to a derivative transaction (including, if applicable, the fund’s clearing broker, the derivatives exchange or the clearinghouse) may be unable or unwilling to honor its financial obligations in respect of the transaction. In certain cases, the fund may be hindered or delayed in exercising remedies against or closing out derivative instruments with a counterparty, which may result in additional losses. Derivatives are also subject to operational risk (such as documentation issues, settlement issues and systems failures) and legal risk (such as insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, and issues with the legality or enforceability of a contract).
Liquidity risk — Certain fund holdings may be or may become difficult or impossible to sell, particularly during times of market turmoil. Liquidity may be impacted by the lack of an active market for a holding, legal or contractual restrictions on resale, or the reduced number and capacity of market participants to make a market in such holding. Market prices for less liquid or illiquid holdings may be volatile or difficult to determine, and reduced liquidity may have an adverse impact on the market price of such holdings. Additionally, the sale of less liquid or illiquid holdings may involve substantial delays (including delays in settlement) and additional costs and the fund may be unable to sell such holdings when necessary to meet its liquidity needs or to try to limit losses, or may be forced to sell at a loss.
Investing outside the U.S. — Securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S. or with significant operations or revenues outside the U.S., and securities tied economically to countries outside the U.S., may lose value because of adverse political, social, economic or market developments (including social instability, regional conflicts, terrorism and war) in the countries or regions in which the issuers are domiciled, operate or generate revenue or to which the securities are tied economically. These securities may also lose value due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and/or currencies of other countries. Issuers of these securities may be more susceptible to actions of foreign governments, such as nationalization, currency blockage or the imposition of price controls, sanctions, or punitive taxes, each of which could adversely impact the value of these securities. Securities markets in certain countries may be more volatile and/or less liquid than those in the United States. Investments outside the U.S. may also be subject to different regulatory, legal, accounting, auditing, financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements, and may be more difficult to value, than those in the U.S. In addition, the value of investments outside the U.S. may be reduced by foreign taxes, including foreign withholding taxes on interest and dividends. Further, there may be increased risks of delayed settlement of securities purchased or sold by the fund, which could impact the liquidity of the fund’s portfolio. The risks of investing outside the U.S. may be heightened in connection with investments in emerging markets.
Investing in emerging markets — Investing in emerging markets may involve risks in addition to and greater than those generally associated with investing in the securities markets of developed countries. For instance, emerging market countries tend to have less developed political, economic and legal systems than those in developed countries. Accordingly, the governments of these countries may be less stable and more likely to intervene in the market economy, for example, by imposing capital controls, nationalizing a company or industry, placing restrictions on foreign ownership and on withdrawing sale proceeds of securities from the country, and/or imposing punitive taxes that could adversely affect the prices of securities. Information regarding issuers in emerging markets may be limited, incomplete or inaccurate, and such issuers may not be subject to regulatory, accounting, auditing, and financial reporting and recordkeeping standards comparable to those to which issuers in more developed markets are subject. The fund’s rights with respect to its investments in emerging markets, if any, will generally be governed by local law, which may make it difficult or impossible for the fund to pursue legal remedies or to obtain and enforce judgments in local courts. In addition, the economies of these countries may be dependent on relatively few industries, may have limited access to capital and may be more susceptible to changes in local and global trade conditions and downturns in the world economy. Securities markets in these countries can also be relatively small and have substantially lower trading volumes. As a result, securities issued in these countries may be more volatile and less liquid, more vulnerable to market manipulation, and more difficult to value, than securities issued in countries with more developed economies and/or markets. Less certainty with respect to security valuations may lead to additional challenges and risks in calculating the fund’s net asset value. Additionally, emerging markets are more likely to experience problems with the clearing and settling of trades and the holding of securities by banks, agents and depositories that are less established than those in developed countries.
Management — The investment adviser to the fund actively manages the fund’s investments. Consequently, the fund is subject to the risk that the methods and analyses, including models, tools and data, employed by the investment adviser in this process may be flawed or incorrect and may not produce the desired results. This could cause the fund to lose value or its investment results to lag relevant benchmarks or other funds with similar objectives.
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5. Certain investment techniques
Futures contracts — The fund has entered into futures contracts, which provide for the future sale by one party and purchase by another party of a specified amount of a specific financial instrument for a specified price, date, time and place designated at the time the contract is made. Futures contracts are used to strategically manage the fund’s interest rate sensitivity by increasing or decreasing the duration of the fund or a portion of the fund’s portfolio.
Upon entering into futures contracts, and to maintain the fund’s open positions in futures contracts, the fund is required to deposit with a futures broker, known as a futures commission merchant (“FCM“), in a segregated account in the name of the FCM an amount of cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid securities, known as initial margin. The margin required for a particular futures contract is set by the exchange on which the contract is traded to serve as collateral, and may be significantly modified from time to time by the exchange during the term of the contract.
On a daily basis, the fund pays or receives variation margin based on the increase or decrease in the value of the futures contracts and records variation margin on futures contracts in the statement of assets and liabilities. Futures contracts may involve a risk of loss in excess of the variation margin shown on the fund’s statement of assets and liabilities. The fund records realized gains or losses at the time the futures contract is closed or expires. Net realized gains or losses and net unrealized appreciation or depreciation from futures contracts are recorded in the fund’s statement of operations. The average month-end notional amount of futures contracts while held was $4,011,388,000.
Swap contracts — The fund has entered into swap agreements, which are two-party contracts entered into primarily by institutional investors for a specified time period. In a typical swap transaction, two parties agree to exchange the returns earned or realized from one or more underlying assets or rates of return. Swap agreements can be traded on a swap execution facility (SEF) and cleared through a central clearinghouse (cleared), traded over-the-counter (OTC) and cleared, or traded bilaterally and not cleared. Because clearing interposes a central clearinghouse as the ultimate counterparty to each participant’s swap, and margin is required to be exchanged under the rules of the clearinghouse, central clearing is intended to decrease (but not eliminate) counterparty risk relative to uncleared bilateral swaps. To the extent the fund enters into bilaterally negotiated swap transactions, the fund will enter into swap agreements only with counterparties that meet certain credit standards and subject to agreed collateralized procedures. The term of a swap can be days, months or years and certain swaps may be less liquid than others.
Upon entering into a centrally cleared swap contract, the fund is required to deposit cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid securities, which is known as initial margin. Generally, the initial margin required for a particular swap is set and held as collateral by the clearinghouse on which the contract is cleared. The amount of initial margin required may be significantly modified from time to time by the clearinghouse during the term of the contract.
On a daily basis, interest accruals related to the exchange of future payments are recorded as a receivable and payable in the fund’s statement of assets and liabilities for centrally cleared swaps and as unrealized appreciation or depreciation in the fund’s statement of assets and liabilities for bilateral swaps. For centrally cleared swaps, the fund also pays or receives a variation margin based on the increase or decrease in the value of the swaps, including accrued interest as applicable, and records variation margin in the statement of assets and liabilities. The fund records realized gains and losses on both the net accrued interest and any gain or loss recognized at the time the swap is closed or expires. Net realized gains or losses, as well as any net unrealized appreciation or depreciation, from swaps are recorded in the fund’s statement of operations.
Swap agreements can take different forms. The fund has entered into the following types of swap agreements:
Credit default swap indices — The fund has entered into centrally cleared credit default swap indices, including CDX and iTraxx indices (collectively referred to as “CDSI”), in order to assume exposure to a diversified portfolio of credits or to hedge against existing credit risks. A CDSI is based on a portfolio of credit default swaps with similar characteristics, such as credit default swaps on high-yield bonds. In a typical CDSI transaction, one party (the protection buyer) is obligated to pay the other party (the protection seller) a stream of periodic payments over the term of the contract. If a credit event, such as a default or restructuring, occurs with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations, the protection seller must pay the protection buyer the loss on those credits.
The fund may enter into a CDSI transaction as either protection buyer or protection seller. If the fund is a protection buyer, it would pay the counterparty a periodic stream of payments over the term of the contract and would not recover any of those payments if no credit events were to occur with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations. However, if a credit event did occur, the fund, as a protection buyer, would have the right to deliver the referenced debt obligations or a specified amount of cash, depending on the terms of the applicable agreement, and to receive the par value of such debt obligations from the counterparty protection seller.
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As a protection seller, the fund would receive fixed payments throughout the term of the contract if no credit events were to occur with respect to any of the underlying reference obligations. If a credit event were to occur, however, the value of any deliverable obligation received by the fund, coupled with the periodic payments previously received by the fund, may be less than the full notional value that the fund, as a protection seller, pays to the counterparty protection buyer, effectively resulting in a loss of value to the fund. Furthermore, as a protection seller, the fund would effectively add leverage to its portfolio because it would have investment exposure to the notional amount of the swap transaction. The average month-end notional amount of credit default swaps while held was $306,001,000.
The following tables identify the location and fair value amounts on the fund’s statement of assets and liabilities and the effect on the fund’s statement of operations resulting from the fund’s use of futures contracts and credit default swaps as of, or for the year ended, May 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands):
|
|
Assets |
Liabilities | ||
Contracts |
Risk type |
Location on statement of assets and liabilities |
Value |
Location on statement of assets and liabilities |
Value |
Futures |
Interest |
Unrealized appreciation* |
$14,804 |
Unrealized depreciation* |
$20,180 |
Swap (centrally cleared) |
Credit |
Unrealized appreciation* |
— |
Unrealized depreciation* |
275 |
|
|
|
$14,804 |
|
$20,455 |
|
|
Net realized gain (loss) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) | ||
Contracts |
Risk type |
Location on statement of operations |
Value |
Location on statement of operations |
Value |
Futures |
Interest |
Net realized gain (loss) on futures contracts |
$(3,179 ) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on futures contracts |
$(5,474 ) |
Swap |
Credit |
Net realized gain (loss) on swap contracts |
(2,088 ) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on swap contracts |
(212 ) |
|
|
|
$(5,267 ) |
|
$(5,686 ) |
*
Includes
cumulative appreciation/depreciation on futures contracts and centrally cleared credit default swaps as reported in the applicable tables
following the fund’s investment portfolio. Only current day’s variation margin is reported within the fund’s statement
of assets and liabilities.
Collateral — The fund receives or pledges highly liquid assets, such as cash or U.S. government securities, as collateral due to its use of futures contracts and credit default swaps. For futures contracts and centrally cleared credit default swaps, the fund pledges collateral for initial and variation margin by contract. The purpose of the collateral is to cover potential losses that could occur in the event that either party cannot meet its contractual obligation. Non-cash collateral pledged by the fund, if any, is disclosed in the fund’s investment portfolio, and cash collateral pledged by the fund, if any, is held in a segregated account with the fund’s custodian, which is reflected as pledged cash collateral in the fund’s statement of assets and liabilities.
6. Taxation and distributions
Federal income taxation — The fund complies with the requirements under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and intends to distribute substantially all of its net taxable income and net capital gains each year. The fund is not subject to income taxes to the extent such distributions are made. Therefore, no federal income tax provision is required.
As of and during the year ended May 31, 2025, the fund did not have a liability for any unrecognized tax benefits. The fund recognizes interest and penalties, if any, related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense in the statement of operations. During the year, the fund did not incur any significant interest or penalties.
The fund’s tax returns are generally not subject to examination by federal, state and, if applicable, non-U.S. tax authorities after the expiration of each jurisdiction’s statute of limitations, which is typically three years after the date of filing but can be extended in certain jurisdictions.
Non-U.S. taxation — Dividend and interest income are recorded net of non-U.S. taxes paid. The fund may file withholding tax reclaims in certain jurisdictions to recover a portion of amounts previously withheld. These reclaims are recorded when the amount is known and there are no significant uncertainties on collectability. Gains realized by the fund on the sale of securities in certain countries, if any, may be subject to non-U.S. taxes. The fund generally records an estimated deferred tax liability based on unrealized gains to provide for potential non-U.S. taxes payable upon the sale of these securities.
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Distributions — Distributions determined on a tax basis may differ from net investment income and net realized gains for financial reporting purposes. These differences are due primarily to different treatment for items such as short-term capital gains and losses; capital losses related to sales of certain securities within 30 days of purchase; deferred expenses; cost of investments sold; net capital losses; amortization of premiums and discounts and income on certain investments. The fiscal year in which amounts are distributed may differ from the year in which the net investment income and net realized gains are recorded by the fund for financial reporting purposes.
As of May 31, 2025, the tax basis components of distributable earnings, unrealized appreciation (depreciation) and cost of investments were as follows (dollars in thousands):
Undistributed ordinary income |
$5,420 |
Capital loss carryforward* |
(2,200,979 ) |
Gross unrealized appreciation on investments |
81,478 |
Gross unrealized depreciation on investments |
(352,606 ) |
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments |
(271,128 ) |
Cost of investments |
10,789,124 |
*
The capital loss carryforward will be used to offset any capital gains realized by the fund in future years. The fund will not make distributions from capital gains while a capital loss carryforward remains.
Tax-basis distributions paid or accrued to shareholders from ordinary income were as follows (dollars in thousands):
|
Year ended May 31, | |
Share class |
2025 |
2024 |
Class M |
$513,755 |
$478,409 |
7. Fees and transactions with related parties
CRMC, the fund’s investment adviser, is the parent company of Capital Client Group, Inc. (“CCG”), the distributor of the fund’s shares, and American Funds Service Company® (“AFS”), the fund’s transfer agent. CRMC, CCG and AFS are considered related parties to the fund.
Transfer agent services — The fund has a shareholder services agreement with AFS under which the fund compensates AFS for providing transfer agent services to the fund. These services include recordkeeping and transaction processing.
Trustees’ deferred compensation — Trustees who are unaffiliated with CRMC may elect to defer the cash payment of part or all of their compensation. These deferred amounts, which remain as liabilities of the fund, are treated as if invested in shares of the fund or other American Funds. These amounts represent general, unsecured liabilities of the fund and vary according to the total returns of the selected funds. Trustees’ compensation of $53,000 in the fund’s statement of operations reflects $47,000 in current fees (either paid in cash or deferred) and a net increase of $6,000 in the value of the deferred amounts.
Affiliated officers and trustees — Officers and certain trustees of the fund are or may be considered to be affiliated with CRMC, CCG and AFS. No affiliated officers or trustees received any compensation directly from the fund.
Investment in CCF — The fund holds shares of CCF, an institutional prime money market fund managed by CRMC. CCF invests in high-quality, short-term money market instruments. CCF is used as the primary investment vehicle for the fund’s short-term instruments. CCF shares are only available for purchase by CRMC, its affiliates, and other funds managed by CRMC or its affiliates, and are not available to the public. CRMC does not receive an investment advisory services fee from CCF.
Security transactions with related funds — The fund may purchase investment securities from, or sell investment securities to, other funds managed by CRMC (or funds managed by certain affiliates of CRMC) under procedures adopted by the fund’s board of trustees. The funds involved in such transactions are considered related by virtue of having a common investment adviser (or affiliated investment advisers), common trustees and/or common officers. When such transactions occur, each transaction is executed at the current market price of the security and no brokerage commissions or fees are paid in accordance with Rule 17a-7 of the 1940 Act. During the year ended May 31, 2025, the fund did not engage in any such purchase or sale transactions with any related funds.
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Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
Interfund lending — Pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the SEC, the fund, along with other CRMC-managed funds (or funds managed by certain affiliates of CRMC), may participate in an interfund lending program. The program provides an alternate credit facility that permits the funds to lend or borrow cash for temporary purposes directly to or from one another, subject to the conditions of the exemptive order. The fund did not lend or borrow cash through the interfund lending program at any time during the year ended May 31, 2025.
8. Indemnifications
The fund’s organizational documents provide board members and officers with indemnification against certain liabilities or expenses in connection with the performance of their duties to the fund. In the normal course of business, the fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown since it is dependent on future claims that may be made against the fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote. Insurance policies are also available to the fund’s board members and officers.
9. Capital share transactions
Capital share transactions in the fund were as follows (dollars and shares in thousands):
|
Sales |
Reinvestments of distributions |
Repurchases |
Net increase (decrease) | ||||
Share class |
Amount |
Shares |
Amount |
Shares |
Amount |
Shares |
Amount |
Shares |
Year ended May 31, 2025 | ||||||||
Class M |
$379,219 |
45,239 |
$513,798 |
61,122 |
$(1,446,913 ) |
(174,317 ) |
$(553,896 ) |
(67,956 ) |
|
|
|
|
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year ended May 31, 2024 | ||||||||
Class M |
$1,688,628 |
205,902 |
$478,359 |
58,295 |
$(2,538,922 ) |
(311,107 ) |
$(371,935 ) |
(46,910 ) |
10. Investment transactions
The
fund engaged in purchases and sales of investment securities, excluding short-term securities and U.S. government obligations,
if any, of $9,940,903,000 and $10,637,959,000,
respectively, during the year ended May 31, 2025.
11. Ownership concentration
At May 31, 2025, two shareholders held more than 10% of the fund’s outstanding shares. The two shareholders were American Balanced Fund and Capital Income Builder, with aggregate ownership of the fund’s outstanding shares of 61% and 25%, respectively. CRMC is the investment adviser to the two American Funds.
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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Financial highlights
|
|
Income (loss) from investment operations1 |
Dividends and distributions |
|
|
|
|
| ||||
Year ended |
Net asset value, beginning of year |
Net investment income (loss) |
Net gains (losses) on securities (both realized and unrealized) |
Total from investment operations |
Dividends (from net investment income) |
Distributions (from capital gains) |
Total dividends and distributions |
Net asset value, end of year |
Total return |
Net assets, end of year (in millions) |
Ratio of expenses to average net assets2 |
Ratio of net income (loss) to average net assets |
| ||||||||||||
Class M: | ||||||||||||
5/31/2025 |
$8.24 |
$.40 |
$.07 |
$.47 |
$(.39 ) |
$— |
$(.39 ) |
$8.32 |
5.77 % |
$10,593 |
— %3 |
4.73 % |
5/31/2024 |
8.29 |
.36 |
(.06 ) |
.30 |
(.35 ) |
— |
(.35 ) |
8.24 |
3.74 |
11,049 |
— 3 |
4.42 |
5/31/2023 |
8.69 |
.29 |
(.40 ) |
(.11 ) |
(.29 ) |
— |
(.29 ) |
8.29 |
(1.23 ) |
11,514 |
— 3 |
3.54 |
5/31/2022 |
10.00 |
.25 |
(1.23 ) |
(.98 ) |
(.24 ) |
(.09 ) |
(.33 ) |
8.69 |
(10.08 ) |
14,294 |
— 3 |
2.57 |
5/31/20214,5 |
10.00 |
— 6 |
— |
— 6 |
— |
— |
— |
10.00 |
.00 |
— 7 |
— |
— 3,8 |
|
Year ended May 31, | ||||
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
20214,5 | |
Portfolio turnover rate for all share classes9 |
205 % |
151 % |
132 % |
94 % |
— %10 |
1 |
Based on average shares outstanding. |
2 |
Ratios do not include expenses of any Central Funds. The fund indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of any Central Funds. |
3 |
Amount less than .01%. |
4 |
Based on operations for a period that is less than a full year. |
5 |
Class M shares began investment operations on April 23, 2021. |
6 |
Amount less than $.01. |
7 |
Amount less than $1 million. |
8 |
Not annualized. |
9 |
Rates do not include the fund’s portfolio activity with respect to any Central Funds. |
10 |
There was no turnover. |
Refer to the notes to financial statements.
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Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Trustees of Capital Group Central Fund Series II and Shareholders of Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the investment portfolio, of Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund (constituting Capital Group Central Fund Series II, referred to hereafter as the “Fund”) as of May 31, 2025, the related statement of operations for the year ended May 31, 2025, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period ended May 31, 2025, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2025, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended May 31, 2025 and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated therein in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the auditing standards of the PCAOB and in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2025, by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Los Angeles, California
July 14, 2025
We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in The Capital Group group of investment companies since 1934.
Capital Group Central Corporate Bond Fund |
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Capital Group Central Fund Series II
Part C
Other Information
Item 28. | Exhibits for Registration Statement (1940 Act No. 811-23633) |
(a) | Articles of Incorporation – Certificate of Trust effective 1/14/21 – previously filed (see Amendment No 1 filed 4/23/21); and Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated 1/14/21 – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(b) | By-laws – By-laws – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(c) | Instruments Defining Rights of Security Holders – None |
(d) | Investment Advisory Contracts – Investment Advisory and Service Agreement dated 3/10/21 – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(e) | Underwriting Contracts – Distribution Agreement dated 3/10/21 – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(f) | Bonus or Profit Sharing Contracts – Deferred Compensation Plan effective 1/1/20 – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(g) | Custodian Agreements – Global Custody Agreement; and Amendment to Global Custody Agreement – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(h-1) | Other Material Contracts – Amended and Restated Shareholder Services Agreement effective 1/1/23 – previously filed (see Amendment No. 4 filed 7/31/23) |
(h-2) | Form of Indemnification Agreement |
(i) | Not applicable |
(j) | Not applicable |
(k) Not applicable
(l) | Initial capital agreements – Initial capital agreements – previously filed (see Amendment No. 1 filed 4/23/21) |
(m) | Not applicable |
(n) | Not applicable |
(o) Reserved
(p) | Code of Ethics – Code of Ethics for The Capital Group Companies dated May 2025 and Code of Ethics for Registrant |
Item 29. | Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Fund |
None
Item 30. | Indemnification |
The Registrant is a joint-insured under Investment Adviser/Mutual Fund Errors and Omissions Policies, which insure its officers and trustees against certain liabilities. However, in no event will Registrant maintain insurance to indemnify any such person for any act for which Registrant itself is not permitted to indemnify the individual.
Article 8 of the Registrant’s Declaration of Trust as well as the indemnification agreements that the Registrant has entered into with each of its trustees who is not an “interested person” of the Registrant (as defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), provide in effect that the Registrant will indemnify its officers and trustees against any liability or expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such person in any proceeding arising out of or in connection with his or her service to the Registrant, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, subject to certain conditions. In accordance with Section 17(h) and 17(i) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and their respective terms, these provisions do not protect any person against any liability to the Registrant or its shareholders to which such person would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.
Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a trustee, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such trustee, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Registrant will comply with the indemnification requirements contained in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and Release Nos. 7221 (June 9, 1972) and 11330 (September 4, 1980).
Item 31. | Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser |
None
Item 32. | Principal Underwriters |
(a) Capital Client Group, Inc. is the Principal Underwriter of shares of: AMCAP Fund, American Balanced Fund, American Funds College Target Date Series, American Funds Corporate Bond Fund, American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund, American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund, American Funds Fundamental Investors, American Funds Global Balanced Fund, American Funds Global Insight Fund, The American Funds Income Series, American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund, American Funds International Vantage Fund, American Funds Mortgage Fund, American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund, American Funds Portfolio Series, American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series, American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, American Funds Strategic Bond Fund, American Funds Target Date Retirement Series, American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York, The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II, American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund, American Funds U.S. Small and Mid Cap Equity Fund, American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund, American High-Income Trust, American Mutual Fund, The Bond Fund of America, Capital Group Completion Fund Series, Capital Group Conservative Equity ETF, Capital Group Core Balanced ETF, Capital Group Core Equity ETF, Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF, Capital Group Dividend Value ETF, Capital Group Equity ETF Trust I, Capital Group Fixed Income ETF Trust, Capital Group Global Equity ETF, Capital Group Global Growth Equity ETF, Capital Group Growth ETF, Capital Group International Core Equity ETF, Capital Group International Equity ETF, Capital Group International Focus Equity ETF, Capital Group KKR Core Plus+, Capital Group KKR Multi-Sector+, Capital Group New Geography Equity ETF, Capital Group Private Client Services Funds, Capital Group U.S. Equity Fund, Capital Income Builder, Capital World Bond Fund, Capital World Growth and Income Fund, Emerging Markets Equities Fund, Inc., EUPAC Fund, The Growth Fund of America, The Income Fund of America, Intermediate Bond Fund of America, International Growth and Income Fund, The Investment Company of America, Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America, The New Economy Fund, New Perspective Fund, New World Fund, Inc., Short-Term Bond Fund of America, SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America and Washington Mutual Investors Fund
(1) Name and Principal Business Address |
(2) Positions and Offices with Underwriter |
(3) Positions and Offices with Registrant | |
LAO | Katherine Abbott | Regional Vice President | None |
CHO | Chatelaine Achterberg | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Alex J. Adair | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Samuel Adams | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Anuj K. Agarwal | Vice President | None |
LAO | Albert Aguilar, Jr. | Director, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer | None |
SNO | David A. Ajluni | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | C. Thomas Akin II | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Anthony Albano | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Mark G. Alteri | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jeremy Alyea | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Colleen M. Ambrose | Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher S. Anast | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Blake J. Anderson | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Dion T. Angelopoulos | Assistant Vice President | None |
CHO | Erik J. Applegate | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Luis F. Arocha | Vice President | None |
LAO | Keith D. Ashley | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Julie A. Asher | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Curtis A. Baker | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | T. Patrick Bardsley | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Mark C. Barile | Vice President | None |
LAO | Shakeel A. Barkat | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Antonio M. Bass | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew Z. Bates | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Katherine A. Beattie | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Scott G. Beckerman | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jeb M. Bent | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew D. Benton | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jerry R. Berg | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph W. Best, Jr. | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Matthew F. Betley | Vice President | None |
LAO | Roger J. Bianco, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Ryan M. Bickle | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Joseph Bilello | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jay A. Binstock | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Peter D. Bjork | Regional Vice President | None |
DCO | Bryan K. Blankenship | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Marek Blaskovic | Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew C. Bloemer | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Erick K. Bodge | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Gerard M. Bockstie, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jon T. Boldt | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Ainsley J. Borel | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Jill M. Boudreau | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Andre W. Bouvier | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Jordan C. Bowers | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | David H. Bradin | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | William J. Brady | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | William P. Brady | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew A. Bredholt | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | William G. Bridge | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Siobhan M. Broadbery | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Lorena B. Brockman | Vice President | None |
LAO | Kevin G. Broulette | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | E. Chapman Brown, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Elizabeth S. Brownlow | Vice President | None |
LAO | Gary D. Bryce | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher Bucci | Regional Vice President | None |
NYO | Melissa Buccilli | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Dylan J. Burdick | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Kenneth D. Burdick | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Carmen A. Burke | Vice President | None |
IND | Jennifer L. Butler | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven Calabria | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Thomas E. Callahan | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kelly V. Campbell | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Patrick C. Campbell III | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Anthon S. Cannon III | Vice President | None |
SNO | Antonio G. Capobianco | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Kevin J. Carevic | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason S. Carlough | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kim R. Carney | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Damian F. Carroll | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | David C. Carson, Jr. | Vice President | None |
LAO | James D. Carter | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Stephen L. Caruthers | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SFO | James G. Carville | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Philip L. Casciano | Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher M. Cefalo | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Alexzania N. Chambers | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Kent W. Chan | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Marcus L. Chaves | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Si J. Chen | Vice President | None |
LAO | Daniel A. Chodosch | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Wellington Choi | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Peter J. Chong | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Cheryl L. Christian | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew T. Christos | Vice President | None |
LAO | Robert S. Chu | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Paul A. Cieslik | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew R. Claeson | Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael J. Clark | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jamie A. Claypool | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kyle R. Coffey | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Natalie S. Cole | Vice President | None |
NYO | Jayme E. Colosimo | Vice President | None |
IND | Timothy J. Colvin | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Frances Coombes | Senior Vice President | None |
IRV | Erin K. Concepcion | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Brandon J. Cone | Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher M. Conwell | Vice President | None |
LAO | C. Jeffrey Cook | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Megan Costa | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph G. Cronin | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | D. Erick Crowdus | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Zachary A. Cutkomp | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Hanh M. Dao | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Alex L. DaPron | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | William F. Daugherty | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Alexandria B. Davis | Regional Vice President | None |
SNO | Bradley C. Davis | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Scott T. Davis | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Shehan N. De Silva | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Adam DeAngelis | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Peter J. Deavan | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kristofer J. DeBonville | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Guy E. Decker | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Mark A. Dence | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Brian M. Derrico | Vice President | None |
LAO | Stephen Deschenes | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Maddi L. Dessner | Director and Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | James G. DiGiuseppe | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Alexander J. Diorio | Vice President | None |
LAO | Mario P. DiVito | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kevin F. Dolan | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | John H. Donovan IV | Vice President | None |
LAO | Ronald Q. Dottin | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph B. Dowd | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | John J. Doyle | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Ryan T. Doyle | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Craig Duglin | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Alan J. Dumas | Vice President | None |
LAO | John E. Dwyer IV | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Christopher P. Dziubasik | Assistant Vice President | None |
IND | Karyn B. Dzurisin | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kevin C. Easley | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Shirley Ecklund | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Damian Eckstein | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew J. Eisenhardt | Senior Vice President | None |
IRV | Jessica Eng | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph Epstein | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Wayne C. Ewan | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Bryan R. Favilla | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph M. Fazio | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Mark A. Ferraro | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher Fetchet | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Brandon J. Fetta | Vice President | None |
LAO | John P. Finneran III | Vice President | None |
LAO | Layne M. Finnerty | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Coenraad F. Fletcher | Vice President | None |
LAO | Kevin H. Folks | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Kelly B. Fonderoli | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | William E. Ford | Senior Vice President | None |
IRV | Robert S. Forshee | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Mark D. Foster | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven M. Fox | Vice President | None |
LAO | Holly C. Framsted | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Megan France | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Evan F. Francks | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Rusty A. Frauhiger | Vice President | None |
LAO | Vincent C. Fu | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Tyler L. Furek | Vice President | None |
LAO | Myles Gaines | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jignesh D. Gandhi | Vice President | None |
LAO | J. Gregory Garrett | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Edward S. Garza | Vice President | None |
LAO | Brian K. Geiger | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Leslie B. Geller | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jacob M. Gerber | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Travis Gilberg | Vice President | None |
LAO | Pamela A. Gillett | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | William F. Gilmartin | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Brenda L. Goeken | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Kathleen D. Golden | Vice President | None |
NYO | Joshua H. Gordon | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Craig B. Gray | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Robert E. Greeley, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jameson R. Greenstone | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Eric M. Grey | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Karen M. Griffin | Vice President | None |
LAO | E. Renee Grimm | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Scott A. Grouten | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | John S. Gryniewicz | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Sam S. Gumma | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jan S. Gunderson | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Ryan A. Gundrum | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Lori L. Guy | Vice President | None |
LAO | Janna C. Hahn | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Philip E. Haning | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Katy L. Hanke | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Brandon S. Hansen | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Julie O. Hansen | Vice President | None |
SNO | Nicholas Hargreaves | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | John R. Harley | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Calvin L. Harrelson III | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Craig W. Hartigan | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Janis Harrison | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | James Hayes | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jennifer Hayes | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Alan M. Heaton | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Clifford W. “Webb” Heidinger | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Brock A. Hillman | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Kristin S. Himsel | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Emilia A. Holt | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Dennis L. Hooper | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Ryan D. Hoover | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jessica K. Hooyenga | Vice President | None |
LAO | Scott W. Hoyer | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | David R. Hreha | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Frederic J. Huber | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael S. Hukriede | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jeffrey K. Hunkins | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Angelia G. Hunter | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Christa M. Iacono | Vice President | None |
LAO | Marc G. Ialeggio | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Maurice E. Jadah | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Asad K. Jamil | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | W. Chris Jenkins | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Daniel J. Jess II | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Jameel S. Jiwani | Vice President | None |
CHO | Allison S. Johnston | Assistant vice President | None |
LAO | Brendan M. Jonland | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kathryn H. Jordan | Vice President | None |
LAO | David G. Jordt | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael Kamell | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Eric J. Kamin | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Teodor P. Karnakov | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Wassan M. Kasey | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Joel A. Kaul | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | John P. Keating | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | David B. Keib | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Brian G. Kelly | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher J. Kennedy | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason A. Kerr | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Ryan C. Kidwell | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Charles A. King | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
IND | Eric M. Kirkman | Vice President | None |
LAO | Kelsei Q. Kirland | Vice President | None |
IND | Morgann B. Klaus | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Stephen J. Knutson | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael J. Koch | Vice President | None |
IND | Philip A. Kojich | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Christina Kramer | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | James M. Kreider | Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew M. Kruger | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jacob A. Kuchta | Regional Vice President | None |
SNO | David D. Kuncho | Vice President | None |
NYO | Joseph Lai | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jialing Lang | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Richard M. Lang | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Theodore J. Larsen | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew P. Laskowski | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Armand Leaks | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew N. Leeper | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Victor J. LeMay | Regional Vice President | None |
SNO | Matthew T. Levene | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Clay M. Leveritt | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Emily R. Liao | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Lauren C. Liebes | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph A. McAdams | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph A. McCreesh, III | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Ross M. McDonald | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Clinton S. McCurry | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jennifer L. McGrath | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Timothy W. McHale | Secretary | None |
SNO | Michael J. McLaughlin | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Max J. McQuiston | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Curtis D. Mc Reynolds | Vice President | None |
IND | Melissa M. Meade | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Paulino Medina | Vice President | None |
LAO | Britney L. Melvin | Vice President | None |
LAO | Davina J. Merrell | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | David A. Merrill | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Lauren A. Merriweather | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Conrad F. Metzger | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Carl B. Meyer | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Benjamin J. Miller | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jennifer M. Miller | Vice President | None |
LAO | Lauren D. Miller | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Tammy H. Miller | Vice President | None |
LAO | William T. Mills | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Sean C. Minor | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Louis W. Minora | Vice President | None |
LAO | James R. Mitchell III | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Charles L. Mitsakos | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Eric E. Momcilovich | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Christopher Moore | Assistant Vice President | None |
IND | Jonathan L. Moran | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Rex Morgan | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Nathaniel Morris | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | David H. Morrison | Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew J. Moscardini | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Stanley Moy | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph M. Mulcahy | Regional Vice President | None |
LAOW | Ryan D. Murphy | Senior Vice President | None |
NYO | Timothy J. Murphy | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Valynda J. Murray | Vice President | None |
LAO | Zahid Nakhooda | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Kristen L. Nelson | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jon C. Nicolazzo | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Earnest M. Niemi | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew P. O’Connor | Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
IND | Jody L. O’Dell | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Jonathan H. O’Flynn | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Bradley D. Olalde | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Arthur B. Oliver | Vice President | None |
LAO | Peter A. Olsen | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Thomas A. O’Neil | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Cimber L. Nuessle | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael Orlando | Vice President | None |
IRV | Paula A. Orologas | Vice President | None |
LAO | Vincent A. Ortega | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
NYO | Gregory H. Ortman | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Shawn M. O’Sullivan | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Lance T. Owens | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kristina E. Page | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jeffrey C. Paguirigan | Senior Vice President | None |
NYO | Christine M. Papa | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Rodney Dean Parker II | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Ingrid S. Parl | Vice President | None |
LAO | William D. Parsley | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Timothy C. Patterson | Vice President | None |
LAO | W. Burke Patterson, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Adam P. Peach | Vice President | None |
LAO | Robert J. Peche | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Elena M. Peerson | Regional Vice President | None |
IRV | Grace L. Pelczynski | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Sejal U. Penkar | Vice President | None |
LAO | Harry A. Phinney | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Adam W. Phillips | Vice President | None |
LAO | Joseph M. Piccolo | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Sally L. Picota De Holte | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Keith A. Piken | Senior Vice President and Director | None |
SFO | Eugene Podkaminer | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | David T. Polak | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Chloe E. Pollara | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael E. Pollgreen | Vice President | None |
LAO | Charles R. Porcher | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Robert B. Potter III | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Darrell W. Pounders | Vice President | None |
LAOW | Colyar W. Pridgen | Vice President | None |
LAO | Michelle L. Pullen | Vice President | None |
LAO | Victoria M. Quach | Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven J. Quagrello | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Kelly S. Quick | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael R. Quinn | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Mary K. Radloff | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Ryan E. Radtke | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | James R. Raker | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Rachel M. Ramos | Vice President | None |
SNO | Eddie A. Rascon | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Rene M. Reincke | Vice President, Treasurer and Director | None |
LAO | Lesley P. Reinhart | Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael D. Reynaert | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Adnane Rhazzal | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Christopher J. Richardson | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | James Robelotto | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Stephanie A. Robichaud | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jeffrey J. Robinson | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Matthew M. Robinson | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jennifer R. Rocci | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Bethany M. Rodenhuis | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Rochelle C. Rodriguez | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Melissa B. Roe | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Stephen Ross | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Thomas W. Rose | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Rome D. Rottura | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Jennah N. Ruddick | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Leah O. Ryan | Vice President | None |
LAO | William M. Ryan | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Brenda S. Rynski | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Richard A. Sabec, Jr. | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Richard R. Salinas | Vice President | None |
LAOW | Erica Salvay | Vice President | None |
LAO | Benjamin F. Samuels | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael C. Santangelo | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Paul V. Santoro | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | David E. Saunders II | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Keith A. Saunders | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Joe D. Scarpitti | Senior Vice President | None |
IND | Broderic C. Schoen | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Jackson T. Schuette | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Domenic A. Sciarra | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Keon F. Scott | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Mark A. Seaman | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | James J. Sewell III | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Arthur M. Sgroi | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Erin C. Sheehan | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Puja V. Sheth | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Kelly S. Simon | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAOW | Anmol Sinha | Senior Vice President | None |
SNO | Julia M. Sisente | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Melissa A. Sloane | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason C. Smith | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Joshua J. Smith | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Taylor D. Smith | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Stephanie L. Smolka | Vice President | None |
LAO | J. Eric Snively | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | John A. Sobotowski | Assistant Vice President | None |
SNO | Chadwick R. Solano | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Charles V. Sosa | Vice President | None |
LAO | Alexander T. Sotiriou | Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven J. Sperry | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Margaret V. Steinbach | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael P. Stern | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Andrew J. Strandquist | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Allison M. Straub | Vice President | None |
LAO | Valerie B. Stringer | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jamie J. Suh | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | John R. Sulzicki | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jack Swigle | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Peter D. Thatch | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | John B. Thomas | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Cynthia M. Thompson | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
SNO | Mark D. Thompson | Assistant Vice President | None |
HRO | Stephen B. Thompson | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Ryan D. Tiernan | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Luke N. Trammell | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jordan A. Trevino | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Michael J. Triessl | Director | None |
LAO | Michael Trujillo | Regional Vice President | None |
CHO | Polina S. Tsybrovska | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Shaun C. Tucker | Senior Vice President | None |
IRV | Sean M. Tupy | Vice President | None |
SNO | Corey W. Tyson | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Ryan C. Tyson | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason A. Uberti | Vice President | None |
LAO | David E. Unanue | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | John W. Urbanski | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Veronica Vasquez | Vice President | None |
LAO-W | Gerrit Veerman III | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services | None |
LAO | Cynthia G. Velazquez | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Spilios Venetsanopoulos | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | J. David Viale | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Austin J. Vierra | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Robert D. Vigneaux III | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Julie A. Vogel | Senior Vice President | None |
IRV | Thu A. Vu | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Adam Waclawsky | Vice President | None |
LAO | Jon N. Wainman | Vice President | None |
LAO | Hudson Walker | Regional Vice President | None |
ATO | Jason C. Wallace | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Sherrie S. Walling | Vice President | None |
LAO | Brian M. Walsh | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Susan O. Walton | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Justin N. Wang | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Andrew D. Waters | Regional Vice President | None |
IND | Kristen M. Weaver | Vice President | None |
LAO | Timothy S. Wei | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Sheraton Welch | Regional Vice President | None |
SNO | Gordon S. Wells | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | George J. Wenzel | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason M. Weybrecht | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Adam B. Whitehead | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Gregory D. Williams II | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Ashley L. Wilson | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jonathan D. Wilson | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven Wilson | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Steven C. Wilson | Vice President | None |
LAO | Anthony J. Wingate | Vice President | None |
LAO | Benjamin Wirtshafter | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Kimberly D. Wood | Senior Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
IND | Benjamin T. Wooden | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Jennifer N. Woodward | Assistant Vice President | None |
IND | Matthew A. Wooten | Assistant Vice President | None |
LAO | Elizabeth D. Yakes | Assistant Vice President | None |
NYO | Mila I. Yankova | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jason P. Young | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Jonathan A. Young | Senior Vice President | None |
LAO | Lauren E. Zappia | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Raul Zarco, Jr. | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
LAO | Connie R. Zeender | Regional Vice President | None |
LAO | Heidi H. Zhang | Assistant Vice President | None |
NYO | Tanya Zolotarevskiy | Vice President, Capital Group Institutional Investment Services Division | None |
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HRO | Business Address, 5300 Robin Hood Road, Norfolk, VA 23513 |
IND | Business Address, 12811 North Meridian Street, Carmel, IN 46032 |
IRV | Business Address, 6455 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618 |
LAO | Business Address, 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 |
LAO-W | Business Address, 11100 Santa Monica Blvd., 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025 |
NYO | Business Address, 399 Park Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10022 |
SFO | Business Address, One Market Street, Suite 1800, San Francisco, CA 94105 |
SNO | Business Address, 3500 Wiseman Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78251 |
(c) None
Item 33. | Location of Accounts and Records |
Accounts, books and other records required by Rules 31a-1 and 31a-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are maintained and held in the offices of the Registrant’s investment adviser, Capital Research and Management Company, 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California 90071; 6455 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, California 92618; and/or 5300 Robin Hood Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23513.
Registrant’s records covering shareholder accounts are maintained and kept by its transfer agent, American Funds Service Company, 6455 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, California 92618; 12811 North Meridian Street, Carmel, Indiana 46032; 3500 Wiseman Boulevard, San Antonio, Texas 78251; and 5300 Robin Hood Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23513.
Registrant's records covering portfolio transactions are maintained and kept by its custodian, State Street Bank and Trust Company.
Item 34. | Management Services |
None
Item 35. | Undertakings |
n/a
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, and State of California, on the 29th day of July, 2025.
CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL FUND SERIES II
By: /s/ Kristine M. Nishiyama
(Kristine M. Nishiyama, Principal Executive Officer)
This Registration Statement has been signed below on July 29, 2025, by the following persons in the capacities indicated.
Signature | Title | ||
(1) | Principal Executive Officer: | ||
/s/ Kristine M. Nishiyama |
Principal Executive Officer | ||
(Kristine M. Nishiyama) | |||
(2) | Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer: | ||
/s/ Becky L. Park |
Treasurer | ||
(Becky L. Park) | |||
(3) | Trustees: | ||
Francisco G. Cigarroa* | Trustee | ||
Nariman Farvardin* | Trustee | ||
Jennifer C. Feikin* | Trustee | ||
Michael C. Gitlin* | Trustee | ||
Leslie Stone Heisz* | Trustee | ||
Mary Davis Holt* | Trustee | ||
Merit E. Janow* | Trustee | ||
Margaret Spellings* | Chair of the Board (Independent and Non-Executive) | ||
Alexandra Trower* | Trustee | ||
Paul S. Williams* | Trustee | ||
Karl J. Zeile* | Trustee | ||
*By: /s/ Courtney R. Taylor |
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(Courtney R. Taylor, pursuant to a power of attorney filed herewith) | |||
Counsel represents that this amendment does not contain disclosures that would make the amendment ineligible for.
/s/ Charlene H. Kim
(Charlene H. Kim, Counsel)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Francisco G. Cigarroa, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at San Antonio, Texas, on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Francisco G. Cigarroa
Francisco G. Cigarroa, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Nariman Farvardin, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Balanced Fund (File No. 002-10758, File No. 811-00066) |
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-190913, File No. 811-22881) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | The Income Fund of America (File No. 002-33371, File No. 811-01880) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | International Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-152323, File No. 811-22215) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
- | Washington Mutual Investors Fund (File No. 002-11051, File No. 811-00604) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Jennifer C. Feikin, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Conservative Equity ETF (File No. 333-276928, File No. 811-23933) |
- | Capital Group Core Balanced ETF (File No. 333-271211, File No. 811-23867) |
- | Capital Group Core Equity ETF (File No. 333-259021, File No. 811-23735) |
- | Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF (File No. 333-271210, File No. 811-23866) |
- | Capital Group Dividend Value ETF (File No. 333-259023, File No. 811-23736) |
- | Capital Group Equity ETF Trust I (File No.333-281924, File No. 811-24000) |
- | Capital Group Fixed Income ETF Trust (File No. 333-259025, File No. 811-23738) |
- | Capital Group Global Equity ETF (File No. 333-276927, File No. 811-23934) |
- | Capital Group Global Growth Equity ETF (File No. 333-259024, File No. 811-23737) |
- | Capital Group Growth ETF (File No. 333-259020, File No. 811-23733) |
- | Capital Group International Core Equity ETF (File No. 333-276930, File No. 811-23935) |
- | Capital Group International Equity ETF (File No. 333-271212, File No. 811-23865) |
- | Capital Group International Focus Equity ETF (File No. 333-259022, File No. 811-23734) |
- | Capital Group New Geography Equity ETF (File No. 333-276931, File No. 811-23936) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, New York , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Jennifer C. Feikin
Jennifer C. Feikin, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Michael C. Gitlin, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Michael C. Gitlin
Michael C. Gitlin, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Leslie Stone Heisz, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Conservative Equity ETF (File No. 333-276928, File No. 811-23933) |
- | Capital Group Core Balanced ETF (File No. 333-271211, File No. 811-23867) |
- | Capital Group Core Equity ETF (File No. 333-259021, File No. 811-23735) |
- | Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF (File No. 333-271210, File No. 811-23866) |
- | Capital Group Dividend Value ETF (File No. 333-259023, File No. 811-23736) |
- | Capital Group Equity ETF Trust I (File No.333-281924, File No. 811-24000) |
- | Capital Group Fixed Income ETF Trust (File No. 333-259025, File No. 811-23738) |
- | Capital Group Global Equity ETF (File No. 333-276927, File No. 811-23934) |
- | Capital Group Global Growth Equity ETF (File No. 333-259024, File No. 811-23737) |
- | Capital Group Growth ETF (File No. 333-259020, File No. 811-23733) |
- | Capital Group International Core Equity ETF (File No. 333-276930, File No. 811-23935) |
- | Capital Group International Equity ETF (File No. 333-271212, File No. 811-23865) |
- | Capital Group International Focus Equity ETF (File No. 333-259022, File No. 811-23734) |
- | Capital Group New Geography Equity ETF (File No. 333-276931, File No. 811-23936) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY, on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Leslie Stone Heisz
Leslie Stone Heisz, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Mary Davis Holt, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
- | Washington Mutual Investors Fund (File No. 002-11051, File No. 811-00604) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY, on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Mary Davis Holt
Mary Davis Holt, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Merit E. Janow, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | AMCAP Fund (File No. 002-26516, File No. 811-01435) |
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | American Funds Global Balanced Fund (File No. 333-170605, File No. 811-22496) |
- | American Funds Global Insight Fund (File No. 333-233375, File No. 811-23468) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds International Vantage Fund (Fund No. 333-233374, File No. 811-23467) |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American Funds U.S. Small and Mid Cap Equity Fund (File No. 333-280621, File No. 811-23979) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | American Mutual Fund (File No. 002-10607, File No. 811-00572) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital Group U.S. Equity Fund (File No. 333-233376, File No. 811-23469) |
- | Capital Income Builder (File No. 033-12967, File No. 811-05085) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Capital World Growth and Income Fund (File No. 033-54444, File No. 811-07338) |
- | Emerging Markets Equities Fund, Inc. (File No. 333-74995, File No. 811-04692) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | The Investment Company of America (File No. 002-10811, File No. 811-00116) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | The New Economy Fund (File No. 002-83848, File No. 811-03735) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, ny , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Merit E. Janow
Merit E. Janow, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Margaret Spellings, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Balanced Fund (File No. 002-10758, File No. 811-00066) |
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-190913, File No. 811-22881) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | The Income Fund of America (File No. 002-33371, File No. 811-01880) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | International Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-152323, File No. 811-22215) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
- | Washington Mutual Investors Fund (File No. 002-11051, File No. 811-00604) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY, on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Margaret Spellings
Margaret Spellings, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Alexandra Trower, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY, on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Alexandra Trower
Alexandra Trower, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Paul S. Williams, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692) |
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857) |
- | American Funds Insurance Series |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656) |
- | American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
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each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Paul S. Williams
Paul S. Williams, Board member
POWER OF ATTORNEY
I, Karl J. Zeile, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):
- | American Funds Core Plus Bond Fund (File No. 333-286599, File No. 811-24077) |
- | American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744) |
- | American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund (File No. 333-208636; File No. 811-23122) |
- | The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318) |
- | American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746) |
- | American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449) |
- | American Funds Multi-Sector Income Fund (File No. 333-228995, File No. 811-23409) |
- | American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750) |
- | American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101) |
- | American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448) |
- | The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694) |
- | American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277) |
- | American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576) |
- | American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364) |
- | The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series – Capital Group Central Cash Fund (File No. 811-23391) |
- | Capital Group Central Fund Series II (File No. 811-23633) |
- | Capital Group Completion Fund Series (File No. 333-278929, File No. 811-23959) |
- | Capital Group Private Client Services Funds (File No. 333-163115, File No. 811-22349) |
- | Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104) |
- | Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446) |
- | Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888) |
- | Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928) |
- | The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421) |
hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint
Randall F. Buonviri Jennifer L. Butler Patrick C. Castellani Jane Y. Chung Sandra Chuon Mariah L. Coria Susan K. Countess Brian C. Janssen Julie E. Lawton Hong T. Le |
Melissa B. Leyva Timothy W. McHale Gregory F. Niland Marilyn Paramo Becky L. Park W. Michael Pattie Michael W. Stockton Courtney R. Taylor Michael R. Tom
|
each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and all related requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
EXECUTED at New York, NY , on June 12, 2025.
(City, State)
/s/ Karl J. Zeile
Karl J. Zeile, Board member