First Trust Senior Loan Fund
FTSL NASDAQ
First Trust Senior Loan Fund holds senior floating rate bank loans from firms around the globe. The actively managed fund can hold up to 20% of assets in non-senior loans, including high-yield bonds and equities. FTSL offers actively managed exposure to senior loans and similar securities primarily...
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- Fund size
- 1.76B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.88% per year
- Dividend yield
- 6.26% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 2.3% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.13 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 42.7544.65
How FTSL has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Nov 4Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, FTSL returned +10.1% with dividends reinvested — −35.1 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±2% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −2.3% on Feb 27, 2026 — 42 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FTSL delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.13 means FTSL has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average44.49 +0.4%
- 26-day average44.44 +0.5%
- 50-day average44.39 +0.6%
- 200-day average43.88 +1.8%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Alternative Strategies · Floating-rate loans — tracking the Not Applicable.
- Assets under management1.76BUSD
- Expense ratio0.88%per year
- Holdings240
- Risk score4.0Medium
Launched May 2013. Fund data as of Feb 27, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 63 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.80
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 21, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust Senior Loan Fund
First Trust Senior Loan Fund holds senior floating rate bank loans from firms around the globe. The actively managed fund can hold up to 20% of assets in non-senior loans, including high-yield bonds and equities. FTSL offers actively managed exposure to senior loans and similar securities primarily, but not exclusively, from North America. Fund documents show a typical profile for a senior loan fund: very low interest-rate risk (from floating-rate debt) and high credit risk (from a near-total allocation to below-investment-grade debt)
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 240 holdings
- Ticker
- FTSL
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33738D3098
- CUSIP
- 33738D309
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Alternative Strategies
- Industry
- Floating-rate loans
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Nov 4, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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