iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF
$49.28−0.33 (−0.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $11.9B
- 1Y return
- +1.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.54%
- Holdings
- 8666
- Volume · 30D
- 1.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $49.54
- 52W range
The ETF.net IAGG Grade
Score 81 of 100 sits in the A 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 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 96Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 93Category rank
Our read on IAGG
AThe other half of the bond market, in dollars. IAGG holds investment-grade debt issued outside the US, developed and emerging, and hedges the currency swings back to USD for seven basis points.
The fund seeks to track an index representing global investment-grade bonds outside the United States, with exposure across developed and emerging markets and currency hedging to the U.S. dollar.
Why people hold it
- 0.07% a year for a global bond book. The median fund in its aggregate-bond peer group charges around 0.36%, and it is priced level with rival BNDX.
- Currency exposure is hedged to the dollar, so results track the bonds themselves rather than moves in the yen, euro or pound.ishares.com
- Roughly 7,900 bonds spanning developed and emerging markets outside the US, with a 10% issuer cap in the index keeping any one borrower in check.
- Running since 2015 inside the iShares Core lineup, a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively and pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The hedge works both ways. It strips out currency losses and currency gains alike, so a sliding dollar adds nothing here.
- No US bonds at all. It is built as the ex-US complement to a domestic core holding such as BND or IUSB, not a standalone bond sleeve.
- Hedging covers currency, not duration. These are investment-grade bonds, and their prices still move as global interest rates move.
IAGG Holdings
- Bonds
- 8,666
- 7%
- CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM 1.61% 02/15/2035
Geography
- China18.88%
- Japan11.26%
- France9.39%
- Germany7.97%
- United Kingdom7.24%
- Canada5.93%
- Italy5.47%
- Spain4.14%
- 29.70%
Developed 72% · Emerging 28%
IAGG 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 | IAGG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.6% |
| 1 month | −0.3% |
| 3 months | −0.9% |
| 1 year | +1.2% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | +0.8% |
| 10 years | +1.9% |
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 | IAGG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.6% | |
| 2025 | +3.3% | |
| 2024 | +4.5% | |
| 2023 | +8.5% | |
| 2022 | −10.9% | |
| 2021 | −1.9% | |
| 2020 | +4.6% |
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IAGG Dividends
- 4.54%
- $2.25
- $0.42 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $1.54 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | $2.13 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $1.77 |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Dec 21, 2022 | $1.08 |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | $0.63 |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Dec 7, 2020 | $0.05 |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 | $0.06 |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Oct 7, 2020 | $0.07 |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Sep 8, 2020 | $0.08 |
IAGG Risk
- 3.6%
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.
- −0.06
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.
- −13.1%
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.
- 0.49
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IAGG Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
11 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.