Capital Group International Bond ETF (USD-Hedged)
$24.91−0.17 (−0.70%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $359M
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.46%
- Holdings
- 198
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.03
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGIB Grade
Score 43 of 100 sits in the C 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.DScore 26Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
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.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 57Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on CGIB
CCapital Group's active bond desk pointed overseas, with the currency layer hedged back to dollars. You get foreign bond selection without the euro and yen steering the outcome.
The fund seeks a high level of current income while preserving capital, primarily through investments in bonds and other debt securities.
Why people hold it
- USD-hedged by design, so results ride on the bonds the managers pick rather than which way the dollar moves that quarter.
- Actively managed, not an index clone: under normal conditions at least 40% of assets sit outside the US, easing to 30% when the adviser reads conditions as unfavorable.
- The mandate is plain: high current income while preserving capital, run through bonds and other debt securities across roughly 200 positions.
- Pays monthly, so the income lands on a twelve-times-a-year rhythm instead of quarterly.
Worth knowing
- 0.45% a year is above the typical core bond fund, and the index heavyweights it shares a shelf with (BND at 0.03%, BNDX at 0.07%) charge a sliver of that.
- Launched in 2024, so the track record is short next to the decades-old core bond funds in its peer group, and it currently sits in the lower reaches of that group on our review.
- Hedging cuts both ways: it damps currency swings, which also means a weakening dollar won't add the lift an unhedged foreign bond fund can pick up.
CGIB Holdings
- Bonds
- 198
- 34%
- CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND BONDS 05/34 2.27
Geography
- United States11.72%
- United Kingdom10.89%
- Japan10.85%
- France10.85%
- China10.46%
- Germany7.15%
- Italy5.81%
- Australia3.73%
- 28.53%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
CGIB 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 | CGIB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.3% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.2% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 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 | CGIB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.3% | |
| 2025 | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | +2.6% |
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CGIB Dividends
- 1.46%
- $0.37
- $0.03 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.03 |
| May 29, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.03 |
CGIB Risk
- 3.0%
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.
- −0.18
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.
- −2.7%
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.
- 0.08
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGIB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
79 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.