Global X - Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
$23.94−0.18 (−0.75%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $165M
- 1Y return
- −1.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.49%
- Holdings
- 109
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net GXIG Grade
Score 58 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.AScore 80Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 65Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 45Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 46Category rank
Our read on GXIG
BAn active corporate bond fund that runs a quant multifactor model and a deep neural network across the US investment grade market, then holds a concentrated slate of about 100 bonds instead of shadowing a thousand-name index.
The Fund seeks total return through both income and capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- At 0.15%, it undercuts the typical fund in its investment grade corporate cohort (0.19% median) while running an active book rather than an index.globalxetfs.com
- Security selection leans on machines: sub-adviser Mirae Asset uses a quantitative multifactor model and a deep neural network to screen the corporate bond universe.globalxetfs.com
- About 100 bonds, not thousands, so manager conviction actually shows up in the portfolio. Income is paid monthly.
- Buying individual corporate bonds is clunky for retail accounts. This delivers the exposure in one exchange-traded line.globalxetfs.com
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded and still small, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the giant index alternatives in this space.
- The active call costs real money: VCIT charges 0.03%, and USIG, SPIB and IGIB 0.04%. GXIG asks several times that for a model-driven portfolio.
- Launched in 2025, so there is little history yet showing how the model handles a full credit cycle.
GXIG Holdings
- Bonds
- 109
- 21%
- VCSH
GXIG 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 | GXIG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.5% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | −1.8% |
| 1 year | −1.0% |
| 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 | GXIG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.5% | |
| 2025 | +4.5% |
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GXIG Dividends
- 6.49%
- $1.56
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.10 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.44 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 8, 2025 | $0.11 |
GXIG Risk
- 3.5%
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.
- −0.52
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.
- −3.9%
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.
- 0.14
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GXIG Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
8 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.