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Vanguard Investment Series PLC - US Government Bond Index Fund

US broad maturity government bonds. Passive tracker on Bloomberg US Government Float Adjusted Bond 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 US Government Bond Index Fund is a passive index solution that tracks the Bloomberg US Government Float Adjusted Bond Index using a representative sampling approach. The index includes USD fixed rate US treasury bonds and US agency debentures with >1 year maturities.The fund has >350 holdings vs index of >580 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 - US Government Bond Index Fund

Ann. return (3-year):
2.69%
Ann. return (5-year):
-0.30%
Ann. return (10-year):
1.00%
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
5.57%

This fund represents passive exposure to the broad US government bond market segment.

Benchmark Returns

SPDR Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond UCITS ETF

Ann. return (3-year):
2.40%
Ann. return (5-year):
-0.35%
Ann. return (10-year):
0.96%
Ann. Standard Deviation (5-year):
5.44%
Link to the Funds FairSheet

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 exposure to the broad US government bond market segment.

Historical maximum drawdown & recovery time

Max drawdown (since inception)
-18.74%
Recovery Period
— (still in drawdown)

Diversification

Credit Rating

  • Aa93.75%
  • Others6.25%

Sectors

  • Treasury99.00%
  • Government-Related1.00%

Geography

  • U.S.A.99.98%
  • Others0.02%