Harbor Money Market Fund Institutional Class (HARXX)

Investment Philosophy

Principal Style Characteristics: Very short-term high quality money market instruments

The Fund invests in U.S. dollar-denominated money market securities. These may include obligations issued by:

  • U.S. government and its agencies and instrumentalities
  • U.S. states and municipalities
  • U.S. and foreign banks
  • Corporate issuers
  • Foreign governments
  • Multinational organizations such as the World Bank

The Subadviser selects securities for the Fund's portfolio by:

  • Allocating assets and actively trading among issuer sectors, such as U.S. treasuries, corporate issuers, U.S. government agencies, etc., while focusing on sectors that appear to have the greatest near-term return potential.
  • Focusing on securities that appear to offer the best relative value based on an analysis of their credit quality and interest rate sensitivity.

The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in securities in the banking industry. The Fund may invest in all types of money market securities, including commercial paper, certificates of deposit, bankers' acceptances, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, repurchase agreements and other short-term debt securities.

Minimum Credit Quality. At least 95% of the Fund's investments are rated in the rating agencies' highest short-term rating category or are unrated securities the Subadviser determines to be of equivalent quality.

Maximum Maturity. The Fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity (WAM) of 60 days or less and a dollar-weighted average life (WAL) of 120 days or less. The securities held in the Fund's portfolio have remaining maturities of 397 days or less.

Risks

There is no guarantee that the investment objective of the Fund will be achieved. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Principal risks include:

Interest rate risk: As interest rates rise, the values of fixed income securities held by the Fund are likely to decrease and reduce the value of the Fund's portfolio.

Credit risk: The issuer or guarantor of a security owned by the Fund could default on its payment obligations, become insolvent or its credit rating could be downgraded.

Selection risk: The Subadviser's judgment about the attractiveness or value of a particular issuer's securities could be incorrect.

Foreign securities risk: Prices of the Fund's foreign securities holdings may go down because of unfavorable foreign government actions, political instability or the more limited availability of accurate information about foreign issuers.

Industry concentration risk: The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in securities in the banking industry. As a result, the Fund's performance may depend to a large extent on the overall condition of that industry.

An investment in the Harbor Money Market Fund is not guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.