Voya Credit Income Fund Shifts Strategy to Higher-Risk Private Credit and Commercial Mortgages

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Voya Credit Income Fund is changing its principal investment strategy to focus significantly on private credit and commercial mortgage loans, introducing new risks and altering its performance benchmark.

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• Major Investment Strategy Shift

  The Fund will now invest at least 80% of its net assets in credit sectors, with a significant component expected to be private credit (including direct lending and asset-backed lending) and commercial mortgage loans, effective June 26, 2026.

• Increased Risk Profile

  New risk factors have been added for 'Commercial Mortgage Loans Risk' and 'Private Credit,' highlighting illiquidity, valuation challenges, reliance on sub-adviser due diligence, and heightened credit and workout risks.

• Benchmark Change

  The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index will be eliminated as a performance benchmark, replaced by a more specialized benchmark (50% Bloomberg High Yield Bond—2% Issuer Constrained Composite Index / 50% Morningstar LSTA US Leveraged Loan Index).

• Portfolio Manager Changes

  Mohamed Basma, CFA, has been removed as a portfolio manager, and Sean Banai, Rajen Jadav, Anuranjan Sharma, and Vinay Viralam are now listed as the portfolio managers.

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Voya Credit Income Fund is undergoing a significant strategic shift, moving its investment focus towards less liquid and higher-risk private credit and commercial mortgage loans. This change, effective June 26, 2026, fundamentally alters the fund's risk profile, introducing new challenges related to illiquidity, valuation, and potential for losses, as explicitly detailed in the updated risk factors. Investors should be aware that the fund's ability to meet periodic repurchase offers may be challenged, and valuations could differ significantly from realized values. The elimination of the broad Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index benchmark in favor of a high-yield and leveraged loan index further underscores this shift to a more aggressive investment mandate. A portion of these changes, specifically those related to real estate investments, are contingent on shareholder approval at a meeting scheduled for May 19, 2026.