NYLI MacKay California Muni Class A (MSCAX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
10.19
+0.01 (0.10%)
At close: Feb 13, 2026
Fund Assets1.31B
Expense Ratio1.09%
Min. Investment$15,000
Turnover80.00%
Dividend (ttm)0.32
Dividend Yield3.15%
Dividend Growth-7.08%
Payout FrequencyMonthly
Ex-Dividend DateJan 30, 2026
Previous Close10.18
YTD Return1.56%
1-Year Return4.42%
5-Year Return1.42%
52-Week Low9.33
52-Week High10.19
Beta (5Y)n/a
Holdings410
Inception DateFeb 28, 2013

About MSCAX

NYLI MacKay California Muni Fund Class A is an open-end municipal bond mutual fund focused on generating current income that is exempt from both federal and California state income taxes. The strategy primarily invests in California municipal debt and applies a relative value approach that blends rigorous credit analysis, yield-curve positioning, and sector rotation to identify attractive tax-exempt opportunities. The portfolio is managed with an emphasis on risk control, avoiding leverage and refraining from making explicit interest-rate bets, while maintaining broad diversification across hundreds of individual municipal issuers. The fund targets the long end of the municipal market, aligning with the Muni California Long category, and distributes income monthly. It may allocate a limited portion to securities subject to the federal alternative minimum tax, depending on market conditions. Led by a tenured team with decades of municipal market experience, the fund seeks to provide a consistent, tax-advantaged income profile for California-oriented investors, benchmarking its results against a California tax-exempt municipal bond index and operating within a disciplined, research-driven framework.

Fund Family New York Life Investment Management LLC
Category Muni California Long
Performance Rating Average
Risk Rating Average
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol MSCAX
Share Class Class A
Index Bloomberg California TaxExempt Muni Bd TR

Performance

MSCAX had a total return of 4.42% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 5.98%.

Equivalent Funds

These are funds that follow the same index from the other major fund companies.

SymbolProviderNameExpense Ratio
VCLAXVanguardVanguard California Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Admiral Shares0.09%
VCITXVanguardVanguard California Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares0.14%

Other Share Classes

These are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.

SymbolShare ClassExpense Ratio
MSCVXInvestor Class0.79%
MSODXClass R60.84%
MSCCXClass C1.04%
MCOIXClass I1.79%

Dividend History

Ex-DividendAmountPay Date
Jan 30, 2026$0.02686Jan 30, 2026
Dec 31, 2025$0.02708Dec 31, 2025
Nov 28, 2025$0.02592Nov 28, 2025
Oct 31, 2025$0.02677Oct 31, 2025
Sep 30, 2025$0.02587Sep 30, 2025
Aug 29, 2025$0.02733Aug 29, 2025
Full Dividend History