PLFLX
Aristotle Floating Rate Income Fund
Aristotle Fund Series Trust
Expense ratio1
1.05%
Net assets2
$3.47B
Holdings2
135
Category
Other
2025 return3
6.29%

Investment objective & strategy

As of July 29, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. Aristotle Floating Rate Income Fund (the Fund) seeks a high level of current income.

Strategy. This Fund invests principally in income producing floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities. Under normal circumstances, this Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities. Floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities are those with interest rates which float, adjust, or vary periodically based upon a benchmark indicator, a specified adjustment schedule or prevailing interest rates. Floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities in which the Fund invests consist of senior secured and unsecured floating rate loans, secured and unsecured second lien floating rate loans, and floating rate debt securities of domestic and foreign issuers. Senior floating rate loans and some floating rate debt securities are debt … This Fund invests principally in income producing floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities. Under normal circumstances, this Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities. Floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities are those with interest rates which float, adjust, or vary periodically based upon a benchmark indicator, a specified adjustment schedule or prevailing interest rates. Floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities in which the Fund invests consist of senior secured and unsecured floating rate loans, secured and unsecured second lien floating rate loans, and floating rate debt securities of domestic and foreign issuers. Senior floating rate loans and some floating rate debt securities are debt instruments that may have a right to payment that is senior to most other debts of the borrowers. Second lien loans are generally second in line in terms of repayment priority with respect to the pledged collateral. Borrowers may include corporations, partnerships and other entities that operate in a variety of industries and geographic regions. Generally, secured floating rate loans are secured by specific assets of the borrower. Floating rate loans will generally be purchased from banks or other financial institutions through assignments or participations. A direct interest in a floating rate loan may be acquired directly from the agent of the lender or another lender by assignment or an indirect interest may be acquired as a participation in another lenders portion of a floating rate loan. The Fund is expected to invest substantially all of its assets in floating rate loans and other debt instruments that are at the time of investment rated non-investment grade or, if unrated, are of comparable quality as determined by the sub-adviser. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in other types of debt instruments or securities including non-investment grade (high yield/high risk, sometimes called junk bonds) debt instruments. The Fund may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in U.S. dollar denominated foreign investments, principally in developed markets. Fundamental Research Process. Individual investment selection is based on the sub-advisers fundamental research process. The sub-advisers fundamental research process combines a bottom-up issuer analysis and top-down market assessment. A bottom-up issuer analysis relies upon the sub-advisers fundamental research analysis of individual issuers. A top-down market assessment provides a framework for portfolio risk positioning and sector allocations. Once this is determined, the sub-adviser looks for companies that it believes have sustainable competitive positions, strong management teams and the ability to repay or refinance its debt obligations. The sub-adviser performs a credit analysis on each potential issuer and a relative value analysis for each potential investment. When selecting investments, the sub-adviser may invest in instruments that it believes have the potential for capital appreciation. An investment is generally sold when the sub-adviser believes that the issue has realized its price appreciation target, the issue no longer offers relative value, or an adverse change in corporate or sector fundamentals has occurred.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
US BANK MMDA - USBGFS 9 $265.51M 7.64%
TRUIST INSURANCE TERM 2LN 05/06/2032 TIHLLC $124.04M 3.57%
PROOFPOINT TERM 1LN 08/31/2028 PFPT $123.77M 3.56%
T/L MILANO ACQUISITION CORP REGD 0.00000000 MILACQ $95.26M 2.74%
Alliant Holdings Intermediate, LLC/Alliant Holdings Co-Issuer, Inc. ALIANT $88.31M 2.54%
UNSEAM TL B 1L USD UNSEAM $85.70M 2.47%
ELLUCIAN TERM 2LN 11/22/2032 $81.03M 2.33%
TRS ADVISORSHARES PURE US CANNABIS ETF $75.00M 2.16%
RP TL 1L USD RP $74.59M 2.15%
HOPPER MERGER SUB INC HOLX $72.96M 2.10%
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Allocation by sector

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

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
47
Exited
46
Increased
32
Decreased
49
Unchanged
7

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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Advisers

As of March 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Aristotle Pacific Capital, LLC Sub-adviser
Aristotle Investment Services, LLC Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of July 29, 2025, 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. 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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