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BNDWVanguardINDEX

Vanguard Total World Bond ETF

$65.76-0.13% vs prior close
667052-WK

Price through Oct 1 · Flows through Oct 31. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 1. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 1.

The fund is a fund of funds and employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which is a custom, USD-hedged index designed to track the market capitalized weights of the global investment-grade bond market and is comprised of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index and the Bloomberg Global Aggregate ex-USD Float Adjusted RIC Capped Index.

Price & daily flows
69.368.066.765.76DAILY NET FLOWOct 1Jan 30Jun 1Oct 1

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN

The desk’s read

Recent fund-flow records are unavailable, while the price has returned -4.3% so far this year. At 0.050% a year, no lower reported fee appears among the alternatives shown here.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$817Massets under management
0.050%expense ratio · $5 per $10,000 a year
—net flow, trailing month
160Kavg daily volume, 30 days
2holdings · US-domiciled
2018listed September 4, 2018 · beta 0.13
Sector weights
Financial Services100%
Other100%
Cash & Others99.99%
ETF99.98%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.6%
1 month-1.8%
3 months-3.6%
6 months-3.4%
YTD-4.3%
1 year-5.5%
3 years—

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week—
1 month—
3 months—
YTD—
1 year—

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
5%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
4%realized volatility, 1 year
-6.5%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-6.5%latest close versus that peak

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
—calls · latest snapshot
—puts · latest snapshot
—put/call ratio
207Kshares traded
The case against BNDW

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat BNDW on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
SPDW State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF0.03%$41.5B+$286M-2bp on fee · 51× the assets · +$286M in over the monthHead-to-head
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16.3B+$489M-2bp on fee · 20× the assets · +$489M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$122.8B+$2.3B150× the assets · +$2.3B in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.9B+$497M-1bp on fee · 40× the assets · +$497M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.7B+$575M-1bp on fee · 29× the assets · +$575M in over the monthHead-to-head
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