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Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund
COLUMBIA FUNDS SERIES TRUST I
Expense ratio1
0.59%
Net assets2
$468.27M
Holdings2
281
Category
Muni Bond
2025 return3
3.34%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Sept. 24, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. Columbia High Yield Municipal Fund (the Fund) seeks total return, consisting of current income exempt from federal income tax and capital appreciation.

Strategy. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in high yield securities. These securities generally include medium grade or below investment grade debt securities or unrated debt securities determined to be of comparable quality, but also may include other securities believed to have the potential for relatively high yield. Below investment grade securities are commonly referred to as junk bonds. The Fund may invest in bonds of any maturity. The Funds investments may include industrial development bonds and participation interests in those bonds. The Fund may invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments that are purchased and sold pursuant to Rule 144A or other … Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in high yield securities. These securities generally include medium grade or below investment grade debt securities or unrated debt securities determined to be of comparable quality, but also may include other securities believed to have the potential for relatively high yield. Below investment grade securities are commonly referred to as junk bonds. The Fund may invest in bonds of any maturity. The Funds investments may include industrial development bonds and participation interests in those bonds. The Fund may invest in privately placed and other securities or instruments that are purchased and sold pursuant to Rule 144A or other exemptions under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, subject to certain regulatory restrictions. The Fund may invest in certain inverse floaters, which are a type of over-the-counter derivative debt instrument with a variable or floating coupon rate that moves in the opposite direction of an underlying reference, typically short-term interest rates. The inverse floaters in which the Fund invests provide leveraged exposure to underlying municipal bonds. The Funds investments in inverse floaters are intended to increase the Funds income and returns through this leveraged exposure. The Fund may invest in inverse floaters that create effective leverage (together with any other effective leverage in the portfolio) of up to 33% of the Funds total investment exposure. The Fund may enter into tender option bond (TOB) transactions and may invest in derivatives, such as floating rate municipal securities (floaters) and inverse floating rate municipal securities (inverse floaters) to add incremental income, futures (including interest rate and Treasury bond futures) to manage duration and hedge against changes in interest rates, and swaps, including Municipal Market Data Rate Locks (MMD Rate Locks) to manage duration and hedge against changes in interest rates. Inverse floaters provide the Fund with leveraged exposure to underlying municipal bonds whose interest payments vary inversely with changes in short-term tax-exempt interest rates. As a fundamental policy, the Fund will invest its assets so that at least 80% of the Funds gross income will be exempt from federal income tax (but not necessarily the federal alternative minimum tax). Such securities are issued by or on behalf of states and their political subdivisions, agencies, authorities and instrumentalities and by other qualified issuers. Qualified issuers include issuers located in U.S. territories, commonwealths and possessions, such as Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in high quality taxable money market instruments.

Allocation by sector

As of February 28, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Nov 30, 2025 → Feb 28, 2026
Opened
16
Exited
11
Increased
3
Decreased
27
Unchanged
235

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Funds whose portfolios most overlap this one, by weight
FundOverlapNet exp.
Columbia Strategic Municipal Income Fund · INTAX, RTCEX, CATZX, CADNX, CATYX, CATSX 23% 0.44%
Columbia Total Return Municipal Income Fund · COLTX, COLCX, CTEZX, CADMX, CTEYX, CTEDX 14% 0.48%
High Yield Municipal Bond Fund · JHTFX, JCTFX, JHYMX, JCTRX 11% 0.63%
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Advisers

As of May 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of September 24, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of February 28, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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