EDD - Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund

What this means for you

One large investor owns more than 5% of this fund but has told the regulator it is not seeking changes. That is common for banks, brokers and index funds that hold shares for their clients.

Nothing is required of you. If an investor changes its mind, it must file a new notice within days, and it will show up here.

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What happened, and when

1. April 13, 2026

   Evergreen Capital Management LLC raised its stake to 5.4% (from 4.9%), as a passive investor.

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2. Jan 8, 2026

   Evergreen Capital Management LLC sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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3. Feb 13, 2025

   Evergreen Capital Management LLC now owns 6%, as a passive investor.

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4. Nov 14, 2024

   Bank of America Corp. sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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5. Nov 7, 2024

   Saba sold down below 5% and stopped reporting.

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About this fund

• Run by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. Part of the Morgan Stanley fund family. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $379 million of holdings, as of July 31, 2026. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 12% on top of its own money, as of July 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 1% a year in management fees; 2.2% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 90 funds we follow that invest in bonds, 36 charge a lower management fee and 24 charge less in total, at their last yearly reports. Both numbers are measured against the fund's own money, not the money it borrows on top, so a fund that borrows more shows higher costs on both counts.
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Oct 31, 2025) the fund paid $0.56 a share, all of it income. Most funds announce their monthly or quarterly payout on their own website, not in a filing with the regulator, so a cut or a raise there does not show up here until the next yearly report. A few funds do file a notice about a fixed payout; those appear under What happened, and when. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Oct 31, 2025): $5.71. The shares traded at $5.37, about 6% below that. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: up 7.8% over the last three months we have (May-July 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 2007.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $0.56 in the fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025; $0.45 in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; $0.32 in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Of that, your own money back rather than income: none in the year ended Oct 31, 2025; $0.14 in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; $0.28 in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 2.18% a year in the fiscal year ended Oct 31, 2025; 2.2% a year in the year ended Oct 31, 2024; 2.32% a year in the year ended Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $368 million at Oct 31, 2025; $336 million at Oct 31, 2024; $331 million at Oct 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Oct 31, 2025 →, Oct 31, 2024 →, Oct 31, 2023 →.
• Borrowing: about 19% on top of its own money at Oct 31, 2025; 19% at Oct 31, 2024; 11% at Oct 31, 2023. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: Oct 31, 2025 →, Oct 31, 2024 →, Oct 31, 2023 →.
• The fund had about 64.5 million shares at Oct 31, 2025, down 1.1% from Oct 31, 2023.As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →

What these lines mean: a payout that is your own money back, what a fund costs, borrowing.

What a holder made

• The year ended Oct 31, 2025: the shares returned +29.5%, counting payouts; the holdings +22.9%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2024: the shares returned +17.9%, counting payouts; the holdings +12.8%. As of Oct 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2023: the shares returned +14.8%, counting payouts; the holdings +12.6%. As of Oct 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2022: the shares returned -25%, counting payouts; the holdings -19.8%. As of Oct 31, 2022, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended Oct 31, 2021: the shares returned +10%, counting payouts; the holdings +1.7%. As of Oct 31, 2021, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those five years together: the shares returned +44.6%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Nov 1, 2020) would have become about $14,500 by Oct 31, 2025, with every payout counted, before tax. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to July 31, 2026: +27.1%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 59 funds that invest in bonds with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 1 reported a higher share return for that year and 57 a lower one. As of Oct 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• A past year says nothing about the next one. All figures are the fund's own, from its reports to the regulator.

Why the shares and the holdings can differ: the gap between price and value. Why payouts count: a payout that is your own money back.

What the fund holds

Mostly bonds (81%), the rest cash and short-term holdings and derivatives. About 10% issued in the U.S.

The fund also sells options on its holdings to raise income.

2.1% of holdings are in default.

1. Cash and short-term - 15.3%
2. Republic of South Africa Government Bond - 10.6%
3. Titulos de Tesoreria, Colombian TES - 8.9%
4. Mex Bonos Desarr Fix Rt, Mexican Bonos - 7.8%
5. Poland Government Bond, Republic of Poland Government Bond - 3.7%
6. Uzbek Industrial and Construction Bank ATB - 3.3%
7. Uzbekistan Intl Bond, Republic of Uzbekistan International Bond - 3%
8. Egypt Government Bond - 2.5%
9. Bonos de Tesoreria, Peru Government Bond - 2.4%
10. Armenian Treasury Bonds, Republic of Armenia Treasury Bonds - 2.1%

As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →