WARCX
Allspring Absolute Return Fund
ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST
Fund of funds
Expense ratio1
1.94%
Net assets2
$442.00M
Holdings2
10
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
7.23%

Investment objective & strategy

As of Aug. 26, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The Fund seeks a positive total return.

Strategy. Under normal circumstances, we invest: Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in U.S. and non-U.S. equity, including emerging market equity funds; Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in U.S. and non-U.S. fixed income, including emerging market debt funds; and Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in alternative investment funds The Fund is a fund-of-funds that employs a multi-asset, multi-style investment approach by investing in various affiliated mutual funds as well as affiliated and unaffiliated exchange-traded funds. We dynamically allocate investments to various broad asset classes across equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, including commodities, based on our assessment of changing economic, global market, industry, and issuer conditions. Within these asset classes, we utilize an … Under normal circumstances, we invest: Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in U.S. and non-U.S. equity, including emerging market equity funds; Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in U.S. and non-U.S. fixed income, including emerging market debt funds; and Up to 60% of the Funds total assets in alternative investment funds The Fund is a fund-of-funds that employs a multi-asset, multi-style investment approach by investing in various affiliated mutual funds as well as affiliated and unaffiliated exchange-traded funds. We dynamically allocate investments to various broad asset classes across equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, including commodities, based on our assessment of changing economic, global market, industry, and issuer conditions. Within these asset classes, we utilize an active allocation strategy to diversify the portfolio among investments that provide efficient upside returns while managing downside risk across most market cycles with the goal of generating a positive absolute return over an economic cycle. Equity holdings are diversified across a wide range of equity funds, including but not limited to funds that invest in U.S. large company securities, U.S. small company securities and international developed and emerging markets. Fixed income holdings are diversified across a wide range of fixed income funds that invest in short- to long-term income-producing securities issued by U.S. and international developed and emerging markets issuers, including but not limited to, U.S. Government obligations, corporate bonds and below investment-grade bonds (often called high yield securities or junk bonds). Alternative investment holdings are allocated across funds that use alternative investment strategies, which may include, but are not limited to, risk premia (i.e., sources of excess return which result from systematic risks and/or behavioral biases existing within the financial markets), managed futures, merger arbitrage, global multi-asset, long-short, market neutral, systematic, or other tactical investment strategies. The Fund may indirectly gain exposure to commodity-linked derivatives such as commodity forwards, commodity futures, commodity swaps, swaps on commodity futures and other commodity-linked derivative securities through an investment in an affiliated fund.

Allocation by sector

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

Oct 31, 2025 → Jan 31, 2026
Opened
2
Exited
0
Increased
1
Decreased
7
Unchanged
0

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 April 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
Allspring Funds Management, LLC Adviser
Allspring Global Investments, LLC Sub-adviser
Allspring Global Investments (UK) Limited Sub-adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of August 26, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of January 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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