RBIAX
RBC BlueBay Strategic Income Fund
RBC Funds Trust
Expense ratio1
0.89%
Net assets2
$83.75M
Holdings2
216
Category
Taxable Bond
2025 return3
5.23%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Jan. 28, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Fund seeks to provide total return (capital appreciation and income).

Strategy. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in fixed income securities. The fixed income securities in which the Fund may invest include, but are not limited to, bonds, municipal securities, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities (including Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)), and obligations of U.S. and foreign governments and their agencies. The Fund is actively managed and is not managed to an index and may invest in securities of any maturity. The Fund will invest primarily in US domestic investment grade bonds, but will be allowed to invest flexibly across sectors, including non-investment grade and non-US securities, including securities of issuers within the European Union and issuers economically tied to emerging market countries. The Fund may invest in securities … The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in fixed income securities. The fixed income securities in which the Fund may invest include, but are not limited to, bonds, municipal securities, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities (including Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)), and obligations of U.S. and foreign governments and their agencies. The Fund is actively managed and is not managed to an index and may invest in securities of any maturity. The Fund will invest primarily in US domestic investment grade bonds, but will be allowed to invest flexibly across sectors, including non-investment grade and non-US securities, including securities of issuers within the European Union and issuers economically tied to emerging market countries. The Fund may invest in securities with fixed, floating or variable rates of interest. The Fund may invest up to 30% of its net assets in securities that are non-investment grade (high yield/junk bond). In addition, the Fund may invest its assets in derivatives, which are instruments that have a value derived from or directly linked to an underlying asset, such as equity securities, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, or market indices. In particular, the Fund may use exchange-traded options, bond futures, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps (including buying and selling credit default swaps on individual securities and/or baskets of securities) and currency futures for portfolio positioning and risk management purposes. The Funds exposure to derivatives will vary. The Adviser is primarily responsible for managing the Funds assets. The Adviser uses a bottom-up, fundamental process combined with top-down risk management tools designed to meet the Funds investment objective. The Adviser uses detailed credit analysis to identify investment opportunities while simultaneously seeking to minimize principal losses. The Adviser incorporates material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as part of the investment process for applicable types of investments. The ESG factors deemed material to the Fund are at the discretion of the Adviser. The Adviser applies exclusions as part of its investment process in managing the Fund. is the exclusions apply a defined set of criteria (which may be product or conduct based), as determined by the Adviser, to exclude certain issuers from the investment universe, as applicable. Exclusion criteria may be based on factors including, but not limited to, certain revenue thresholds from business activities or conduct-based assessments from third-party providers. The exclusion criteria applied by the Adviser exclude companies involved in: Incidents misaligned with the UN Global Compact Principles; The production of controversial weapons; The production of nuclear weapons; The production of tobacco; The mining of, or power generation from, thermal coal mining.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT

Allocation by sector

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

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
59
Exited
45
Increased
4
Decreased
41
Unchanged
116

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 September 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
RBC Global Asset Management (US) Inc. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of January 28, 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. 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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