NFRAX
Nuveen Floating Rate Income Fund
Nuveen Investment Trust III
Expense ratio1
1.00%
Net assets2
$2.00B
Holdings2
405
Category
Other
2025 return3
5.82%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Dec. 29, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The principal investment objective of the Fund is to seek a high level of current income

Strategy. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in floating rate securities. Floating rate securities are defined to include floating rate loans, other floating rate debt securities including corporate debt securities and U.S. government securities, money market securities and shares of money market and short-term bond funds. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in other securities, which would primarily be fixed rate debt securities of any maturity, convertible securities and equity securities received as a result of the restructuring of an issuers debt. A substantial portion of the Funds assets generally will be invested in securities rated … Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of the sum of its net assets and the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in floating rate securities. Floating rate securities are defined to include floating rate loans, other floating rate debt securities including corporate debt securities and U.S. government securities, money market securities and shares of money market and short-term bond funds. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in other securities, which would primarily be fixed rate debt securities of any maturity, convertible securities and equity securities received as a result of the restructuring of an issuers debt. A substantial portion of the Funds assets generally will be invested in securities rated below investment grade or, if unrated, deemed by the Funds portfolio managers to be of comparable quality. Below investment-grade securities are commonly referred to as high yield securities or junk bonds. The Fund invests both in securities issued by U.S. companies and in U.S. dollar-denominated securities issued by non-U.S. companies that are traded over-the-counter or listed on an exchange. Under normal market conditions, the average effective duration of the Funds portfolio will not be longer than one year. Effective duration is an estimate of how much the value of a debt security will change with a given change in interest rates. The Fund may invest in securities that have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act ) ( restricted securities ), including securities sold in private placement transactions between issuers and their purchasers and securities that meet the requirements of Rule 144A under the Securities Act ( Rule 144A securities ). Rule 144A securities may be resold under certain circumstances only to qualified institutional buyers as defined by the rule. The Fund may utilize the following derivatives: options; futures contracts; options on futures contracts; swap agreements, including interest rate swaps, total return swaps, and credit default swaps; and options on swap agreements. The Fund may use these derivatives in an attempt to manage market risk, credit risk and yield curve risk, to manage the effective maturity or duration of securities in the Funds portfolio, including the use of interest rate derivatives to convert fixed-rate securities to floating rate securities, or for speculative purposes in an effort to increase the Funds yield or to enhance returns. The use of a derivative is speculative if the Fund is primarily seeking to enhance returns, rather than offset the risk of other positions. The Funds sub-adviser bases its investment process on fundamental, bottom-up credit analysis. Analysts assess sector dynamics, company business models and asset quality. Inherent in the sub-advisers credit analysis process is the evaluation of potential upside and downside to any credit. As such, the sub-adviser concentrates its efforts on sectors where there is sufficient transparency to assess the downside risk and where firms have assets to support meaningful recovery in case of default. In its focus on downside protection, the sub-adviser favors opportunities where valuations can be quantified and risks assessed.

Top holdings

As of Feb. 28, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
BLKR-LIQ T-INS TSTXX $151.70M 7.58%
State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF SJNK $45.84M 2.29%
ZAYO TL 1L USD ZAYO $35.90M 1.79%
HOPPER MERGER SUB INC HOLX $28.97M 1.45%
X Corp., Term Loan B TWTR $25.90M 1.29%
BROPAR TL B4 1L USD BROPAR $25.66M 1.28%
Surgery Center Holdings, Inc., Term Loan B $24.88M 1.24%
Genesys Cloud Services Inc $22.34M 1.12%
WIN Waste Innovations Holdings, Inc., Term Loan B WHETEC $21.96M 1.10%
PRXL TL B 1L USD PRXL $21.90M 1.09%
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Allocation by sector

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

Nov 30, 2025 → Feb 28, 2026
Opened
98
Exited
86
Increased
126
Decreased
101
Unchanged
87

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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Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of December 29, 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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