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Vanguard Investment Series PLC - Global Bond Index Fund

Global investment grade diversified bonds. Passive tracker on Bloomberg Global Aggregate Float Adjusted and Scaled Index.

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About the Fund

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The Vanguard Group is a US-based private investment firm founded in 1975 by John Bogle, and is best known for offering low cost, uncomplicated mutual fund and ETF solutions. It manages over US$12tn worth of assets.

The Vanguard Global Bond Index Fund is a passive index solution that tracks the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Float Adjusted and Scaled Index using a representative sampling approach. The index includes global government, government-related agencies, corporate and securitised bonds with >1 year maturity and of investment grade rating. The custom scaling of this index refers to scaling down CNY exposures to a max 5% in the index. The fund has >14000 holdings vs index of >31000 holdings.

Performance

Price Performance – Maximum Period

The FairHorizon Context

Investment-Time-Horizon in years

0 - 22 - 44 - 7 7 - 1010 - 1515+
Expected long-term return
2 - 4% p.a.
Expected volatility
3 - 5% p.a.

Building Block Returns

Vanguard Investment Series PLC - Global Bond Index Fund

Ann. return (3-year):
3.82%
Ann. return (5-year):
0.20%
Ann. return (10-year):
1.73%
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
5.49%

This fund represents passive high quality diversified bond exposures by tracking the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index that is the most commonly used index to refer to global bond markets.

Benchmark Returns

SPDR Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF

Ann. return (3-year):
3.84%
Ann. return (5-year):
0.66%
Ann. return (10-year):
—
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
4.81%
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FairHorizon Benchmark Returns

Dimensional Funds PLC - World Allocation 20/80 Fund

Ann. return (3-year):
7.18%
Ann. return (5-year):
3.55%
Ann. return (10-year):
—
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
4.10%
Link to the Funds FairSheet

The Dimensional World Allocation 20/80 Fund is our FAIRHORIZON Blue reference benchmark solution that has 20% global developed equities and 80% global investment grade short-to-medium maturity bonds for global high quality bonds-like returns and volatility.

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Why we prefer this fund

Relevance of strategy

This fund represents passive high quality diversified bond exposures by tracking the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index that is the most commonly used index to refer to global bond markets.

Historical maximum drawdown & recovery time

Max drawdown (since inception)
-17.25%
Recovery Period
1225 Days

Diversification

Credit Rating

  • Aaa10.58%
  • Aa32.09%
  • A16.05%
  • Baa12.27%
  • Ba0.25%
  • Others28.76%

Sectors

  • Treasury52.80%
  • Corporate22.00%
  • Government-Related12.66%
  • Securitized10.94%
  • Others1.60%

Geography

  • U.S.A.44.98%
  • France6.10%
  • Japan5.61%
  • Germany5.20%
  • United Kingdom4.16%
  • Canada4.15%
  • Italy3.69%
  • Spain2.82%
  • Supranational2.76%
  • Australia1.93%
  • Netherlands1.84%
  • Others16.76%