First Trust Limited Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF
$18.50−0.12 (−0.63%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.44%
- Fund size
- $1.5B
- 1Y return
- +1.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.88%
- Holdings
- 329
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $18.60
- 52W range
The ETF.net FSIG Grade
Score 50 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 20Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 62Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on FSIG
CFirst Trust's short-end corporate bond fund: roughly 300 investment-grade credits, monthly income, and a mandate built around current income rather than an index. The trade-off is a 0.44% fee in a pennies-a-year category.
The Fund seeks current income by investing at least 80% of its net assets in investment-grade corporate debt securities under normal market conditions.
Why people hold it
- Limited duration by design: shorter-maturity corporate paper mechanically swings less on a given move in rates than long bonds do.
- At least 80% of net assets sit in investment-grade corporate debt, spread across roughly 300 positions, so no single borrower drives the outcome.
- The objective is written around income, not index replication, so the managers pick issuers and maturities instead of copying a benchmark.
- Income arrives monthly, and the fund has grown past the billion-dollar mark since its 2021 launch.
Worth knowing
- Costs 0.44% a year against a 0.19% category median, while index rivals like VCIT and IGSB run 0.03% to 0.04%.
- Corporate credit, not Treasuries: prices move with issuer creditworthiness as well as with interest rates.
- Trading is moderate rather than heavy, so bid-ask spreads can widen when markets get jumpy.
FSIG Holdings
- Other
- 329
- 10%
- MSCI INC 4%, due 11/15/2029
Geography
- United States81.96%
- Canada8.61%
- Ireland2.72%
- United Kingdom1.54%
- Netherlands1.52%
- Switzerland0.96%
- France0.81%
- Sweden0.62%
- 1.26%
FSIG 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 | FSIG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.0% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −0.3% |
| 1 year | +1.2% |
| 3 years | +5.0% |
| 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 | FSIG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.0% | |
| 2025 | +6.7% | |
| 2024 | +4.2% | |
| 2023 | +6.2% | |
| 2022 | −4.4% | |
| 2021 | +0.0% |
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FSIG Dividends
- 4.88%
- $0.91
- $0.07 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 21, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
FSIG Risk
- 2.7%
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.
- −6.9%
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.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FSIG Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
38 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.