The Best Performing Bond Mutual Funds over the Last 10 Years

Updated as of: September 12, 2025

This article contains the best-performing bond mutual funds from the last year all the way back to the past decade, with data routinely updated by YCharts.

To create this list, we analyzed the entire mutual fund universe using the YCharts Fund Screener to find the best-performing US-domiciled fixed income mutual funds on a 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year basis. (Funds with leveraged or inverse attributes as well as those in the alternative currency strategy and options arbitrage strategy peer groups were excluded to focus on long-term investment vehicles that align with broader financial planning goals).

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• Best-Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last Year
• Best-Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 3 Years
• Best-Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 5 Years
• Best-Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 10 Years
• What Was the Growth of $10,000 Over the Last 10 Years?

Best Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last Year

These are the top-performing bond mutual funds over the past year, as of August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 3 Years

These are the top-performing bond mutual funds on an annualized basis between September 1st, 2022 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 5 Years

These are the top-performing bond mutual funds on an annualized basis between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing Bond Mutual Funds in the Last 10 Years

These are the top-performing bond mutual funds on an annualized basis between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2025.

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What Was the Growth of $10,000 in the Top Bond Mutual Funds Over the Last 10 Years?

The best-performing bond mutual fund in the last 10 years was the North Square Preferred and Income Securities Fd I fund (ORDNX). A $10,000 investment into ORDNX 10 years ago would be worth $30,910 today on a total return basis. Right behind it was the Catalyst/SMH High Income Fund I (HIIIX); investing $10,000 into this Catalyst/SMH fund back in 2015 would’ve turned into a little over $21K with dividend reinvestment.

However, investing $10,000 into a benchmark bond index such as the Bloomberg US Aggregate index netted a total return of just 19.5% over the last ten years, or 1.8% on an annualized basis. Investing in one of these broad bond indexes was not enough to beat inflation over the last decade.

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