DHNIX
DIAMOND HILL CORE PLUS BOND FUND
Diamond Hill Funds
Expense ratio1
0.58%
Net assets2
$93.91M
Holdings2
455
Category
Other
2025 return3
8.03%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Feb. 25, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The investment objective of the Diamond Hill Core Plus Bond Fund (the Fund or the Core Plus Bond Fund) is to maximize total return consistent with the preservation of capital.

Strategy. The Fund, under normal market conditions, intends to provide total return by investing at least 80% of its net assets at the time of purchase (plus any amounts borrowed for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities, including bonds, debt securities, bank loans and other similar U.S. dollar-denominated instruments issued by various U.S. public- or private-sector entities, or by non-U.S. corporations or U.S. affiliates of non-U.S. corporations, including those in emerging markets. The Fund may invest a significant portion or all of its assets in securitized bond investments also referred to as structured product securities or structured products. Securitized bond investments include interests in pools of secured loans backed by commercial real estate, residential real estate, commercial … The Fund, under normal market conditions, intends to provide total return by investing at least 80% of its net assets at the time of purchase (plus any amounts borrowed for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of fixed income securities, including bonds, debt securities, bank loans and other similar U.S. dollar-denominated instruments issued by various U.S. public- or private-sector entities, or by non-U.S. corporations or U.S. affiliates of non-U.S. corporations, including those in emerging markets. The Fund may invest a significant portion or all of its assets in securitized bond investments also referred to as structured product securities or structured products. Securitized bond investments include interests in pools of secured loans backed by commercial real estate, residential real estate, commercial or consumer loans, and securitizations such as collateralized debt obligations, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) (including commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs)), asset-backed securities (ABS), and other similar securities and related instruments at the discretion of Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. (the Adviser). The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in below-investment grade securities, including those referred to as junk bonds (or the unrated equivalent) at the time of purchase. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will maintain an average portfolio duration of plus or minus 20% of the duration of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is a broad-based index that represents the investment grade, U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-rate taxable bond market. Duration of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index was 5.95 years as of its last reconstitution date of January 31, 2026. Duration is an approximate measure of a bonds price sensitivity to changes in interest rates. For instance, a duration of three means that a securitys or portfolios price would be expected to decrease by approximately 3% with a 1% increase in interest rates (assuming a parallel shift in the yield curve). When selecting securities for investment, the Adviser employs a bottom-up, research-based approach in seeking to identify opportunities. In buying and selling securities for the Fund, the Adviser performs a risk/reward analysis that includes an evaluation of credit risk, interest rate risk, prepayment risk, and the legal and technical structure of the security. The Adviser will attempt to take advantage of inefficiencies that it believes exist in the fixed-income markets, such as the diversity of participants working with different objectives and repeated temporary supply-demand imbalances. The Adviser seeks to invest in securities that the Adviser expects to offer attractive prospects for current income and/or capital appreciation in relation to the risk borne.

Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
54
Exited
54
Increased
40
Decreased
99
Unchanged
262

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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DIAMOND HILL SHORT DURATION SECURITIZED BOND · DHEAX, DHEIX, DHEYX 16% 0.40%
DIAMOND HILL SECURITIZED TOTAL RETURN FUND · DHWYX, DHWAX, DHWIX 13% 0.75%
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Advisers

As of December 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
DIAMOND HILL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of February 25, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. As reported in the fund's prospectus performance bar chart.

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