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"The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a focus on long-dated maturities."
The Touchstone Core Municipal Bond Fund, sub-advised by Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co., outperformed its benchmark, the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index, for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. During the first half of 2025, the municipal bond market faced severe challenges, underperforming other fixed-income sectors due to policy uncertainty, supply pressures (with issuance expected to exceed $300 billion year-to-date), and retail investor caution. This led to a bear-steepening of the yield curve, with 30-year yields rising by 26 basis points. The Fund's performance benefited from security-specific selection, which offset losses from a deliberate overweight to single A credits as spreads widened. Strategically, the Fund maintained sector neutrality while rotating out of rich valuations in state GO, airport, and small healthcare credits into local GO issuers with better fundamentals. Looking forward, the managers are cautiously optimistic about municipal bond valuations, favoring long-dated maturities. They plan to maintain a nimble approach to duration and yield curve adjustments, maintaining an overweight in prepaid gas bonds and seeking value in local government issues. Additionally, they plan to strategically extend duration if 30-year Treasury yields rise above 5% to enhance long-term performance.
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Market Conviction
High-conviction positioning: The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Growth Outlook
Market outlook remains high conviction: The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Risk Appetite
Risk appetite posture is high conviction: The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Capital Deployment
Manager actively deployed capital into high-conviction opportunities. The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Forward Guidance
Forward guidance signal: The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Language Signal
Tone analysis indicates high conviction language: The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Perceived Risk
Perceived risk level is evaluated as moderate conviction. The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Opportunity Density
Opportunity density index indicates high conviction actionable entry points. The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
Time Horizon
Investment time horizon reflects a high conviction orientation. The Fund outperformed its benchmark in Q2 2025 through active security selection and strategic reallocation, and remains cautiously optimistic about municipal valuations with a foc...
