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FTSL — First Trust Senior Loan Fund

Data as of 2026-09-21 · US · Bonds · window 2016-09-21 → 2026-09-21 (10.0 years) · returns assume dividends reinvested, net of fund fees · Market Data from Tiingo.com

What the history says

FTSL
Total return+54.4%
Annualised (CAGR)+4.4%
Volatility (annualised)+5.3%
Sharpe (rf = 0)0.83
Deepest drawdown-22.7%
Drawdown peak → trough2020-01-29 → 2020-03-23

Over the 10.0 years to 2026-09-21 the fund returned +54.4% in total (+4.4% a year), with a deepest drawdown of -22.7% from 2020-01-29 to 2020-03-23. Its worst calendar year was 2022 (-2.5%), its best 2023 (+11.6%).

Every calendar year

Calendar-year returns (net of fees, dividends reinvested)
YearFTSL
2026+2.2%
2025+6.0%
2024+8.3%
2023+11.6%
2022-2.5%
2021+3.9%
2020+3.0%
2019+10.1%
2018-1.3%
2017+2.6%
2016+1.4%

What this page does not say

It does not say FTSL is a good or bad fund, and it is not a forecast. Returns above are history: they already include dividends and already exclude the fund's own fees. A drawdown of -22.7% means an investor who bought at the peak would have watched that much value disappear before it recovered — how long that takes is the part most tables leave out.

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