First Trust Intermediate Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF
$19.95−0.21 (−1.07%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $638M
- 1Y return
- −0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.11%
- Holdings
- 241
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.14
- 52W range
The ETF.net FIIG Grade
Score 48 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.FScore 6Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 97Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 41Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 58Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on FIIG
CA bond picker's fund in the most indexed corner of the market: no benchmark to hug, around 300 investment-grade corporate bonds, monthly income, and a 0.49% fee that tells you a human is doing the choosing.
The fund seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation while normally investing at least 80% of its assets in investment-grade corporate debt securities.
Why people hold it
- No published index to follow. The managers choose issuers and maturities inside a mandate of at least 80% investment-grade corporate debt.ftportfolios.com
- About 300 bonds spread out single-issuer risk, and the portfolio has stayed closely aligned with the mandate in its own filings.
- Income is paid monthly rather than quarterly, and the fund has grown to a few hundred million in assets since launch.
Worth knowing
- The fee is the headline: 0.49% a year, against index peers like VCIT and SPIB at 0.03% and 0.04%. Bond picking here carries a real toll.
- Intermediate-duration corporates react to both interest rates and credit spreads, and with a 2023 launch this one has a short history.
- Trading is moderate rather than heavy, so order size and timing matter more here than in the giant index funds.
FIIG Holdings
- Bonds
- 241
- 11%
- U.S. Treasury Bond, 0%, due 11/15/2045
Geography
- United States88.57%
- Canada4.17%
- Ireland2.61%
- United Kingdom1.48%
- Switzerland0.98%
- Netherlands0.73%
- France0.58%
- Spain0.49%
- 0.39%
FIIG 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 | FIIG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.9% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | −0.5% |
| 3 years | +5.5% |
| 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 | FIIG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.9% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +2.1% | |
| 2023 | +6.8% |
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FIIG Dividends
- 5.11%
- $1.03
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 21, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
FIIG Risk
- 6.2%
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.
- 0.11
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.
- −5.5%
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.
- 0.29
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FIIG Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate (5-10 Year) funds
- Median 0.19%
Every other Investment Grade Corporate (5-10 Year) fund charges less.