First Trust Senior Loan Fund (FTSL)
First Trust
- Page updated:
- Sep 8, 2026
- Data as of:
- Sep 4, 2026
Fund identity
- Ticker
- FTSL
- Fund name
- First Trust Senior Loan Fund
- Fund type
- ETF
- Currency
- USD
- Domicile
- US
- Inception
- May 1, 2013
Structure and strategy
- Sponsor
- First Trust
- Management approach
- Active
- Strategy
- Actively invests primarily in senior secured floating-rate loans, with a policy to invest at least 80% of net assets in senior loans.
- Portfolio scope
- Primarily first-lien senior secured floating-rate loans
- Portfolio implementation
- Active senior-loan management
- Asset class
- Fixed Income
- Category
- Senior / Leveraged Loans
Senior/leveraged loans are bank-loan credit instruments, not ordinary exchange-traded corporate bonds. Loan ratings are third-party credit ratings, not ROIStreet ratings. At least 80% of net assets in senior loans under the fund's policy.
Costs and minimums
- Total expense ratio
- 0.70%
- Ongoing fee as of
- Sep 7, 2026
Size and distributions
- Assets under management
- $2.43B
- Assets under management scope
- Fund
- Reported holdings count
- 358
- Distribution frequency
- Monthly
Sources
- First Trust Senior Loan Fund issuer fund page — First Trust · data as of Sep 7, 2026
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