Simplify Aggregate Bond ETF
$19.32−0.20 (−1.05%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $543M
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.63%
- Holdings
- 19
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $19.52
- 52W range
The ETF.net AGGH Grade
Score 38 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 13Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 71Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 37Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 48Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 15Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 59Category rank
Our read on AGGH
DCore bonds with a twist: an investment-grade bond core built mostly from other ETFs, then options layered on top to hedge risk or generate income. The active take on the Agg, for people who find the index version too plain.
The Fund seeks to maximize total return. It invests primarily in investment-grade bonds, chiefly through exchange-traded funds, and uses derivative overlays to hedge risk or generate income.
Why people hold it
- The overlay is the whole idea: investment-grade bonds held chiefly through ETFs, with derivatives used to hedge risk or generate income rather than just tracking an index.
- Pays monthly, so income arrives on a household-budget rhythm.
- Stays in US investment-grade credit. No emerging-market debt or currency detours hiding under the hood.
- Ordinary 1940 Act ETF wrapper: a 1099 at tax time, not a K-1.
Worth knowing
- At 0.55% a year it sits at the pricey end of an aisle where the index giants (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) charge 0.03%. The overlay has to carry that gap.
- Owning bonds through other funds adds a layer between you and the actual bonds, plus the underlying funds' own costs.
- Launched in 2022, so the track record is short, and an active overlay can behave unlike the plain Agg in stressed markets.
AGGH Holdings
- Bonds
- 19
- 108%
- AGG
Sectors
Geography
AGGH Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AGGH |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.1% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | −1.6% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 3 years | +4.8% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AGGH |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.1% | |
| 2025 | +8.2% | |
| 2024 | +2.0% | |
| 2023 | +8.5% | |
| 2022 | −8.5% |
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AGGH Dividends
- 7.63%
- $1.49
- $0.12 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.13 |
AGGH Risk
- 7.0%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.03
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −13.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AGGH Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
93 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.