Harbor Disciplined Bond ETF (AGGS)
$39.55−0.21 (−0.53%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $39M
- 1Y return
- +0.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.26%
- Holdings
- 204
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.65
- 52W range
The ETF.net AGGS Grade
Score 57 of 100 sits in the B 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.CScore 46Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 5Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 37Category rank
Our read on AGGS
BHarbor hands the keys to Income Research + Management, a Boston bond boutique whose day job is institutional money, and lets it run an active core bond book at a price near the middle of an index-dominated pack.
The Fund seeks total return.
Why people hold it
- Subadvised since its 2024 launch by Income Research + Management, an independent fixed income firm that manages bond portfolios for institutional and private clients.sec.govharborcapital.com
- At 0.35%, it charges about what the typical aggregate-bond ETF does, which is unusual for a portfolio picked bond by bond rather than copied from an index.
- Pays monthly across roughly 200 positions, so income lands on a steady cadence instead of quarterly lumps.
- Stays in its lane: total return from a diversified book of mostly US dollar bonds, matching what the prospectus describes.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded on a small asset base, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the giant index bond funds.
- Index rivals BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%, so the active work here starts with a real fee gap to make up.
- Launched in 2024, so the track record is short and covers a narrow slice of rate history.
AGGS Holdings
- Bonds
- 204
- 21%
- US TREASURY N/B 4.63% 02/15/2046
AGGS 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 | AGGS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.6% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +0.7% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | AGGS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.6% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +4.2% |
AGGS in the news
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AGGS Dividends
- 5.26%
- $2.09
- $0.16 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.15 |
AGGS Risk
- 4.2%
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.
- 0.12
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.
- −4.7%
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.
- 0.13
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AGGS Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
57 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.