Nuveen Enhanced Yield U.S. Aggregate Bond
$20.21−0.19 (−0.93%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $107M
- 1Y return
- +0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.63%
- Holdings
- 1406
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.37
- 52W range
The ETF.net NUAG Grade
Score 68 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 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 66Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on NUAG
BMost core bond ETFs hug the plain Agg. NUAG tracks a yield-tilted version of the US broad bond index instead: roughly 1,300 bonds, monthly distributions, 0.15% a year.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the investment results of the ICE BofA Enhanced Yield U.S. Broad Bond Index.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.15% a year against a 0.36% median for its core bond cohort, low for a fund that isn't just copying the standard aggregate index.
- Roughly 1,300 bonds and a monthly payout schedule: granular exposure, income that lands twelve times a year rather than four.
- Holds to the index its prospectus names, with no drift into other asset classes. One of the stronger implementations in a very crowded core bond group.
- Live since 2016, so the strategy has a real record across both rising and falling rate environments rather than a back-test.
Worth knowing
- A smaller, thinly traded fund next to the category's giants, so the bid-ask spread is worth a look before trading.
- 0.15% is five times the 0.03% charged by BND, SPAB and SCHZ. The yield tilt is what the extra buys.
- An enhanced-yield index is not the plain Agg, so the sector mix and how it moves can differ from the benchmark most core bond funds track.
NUAG Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,406
- 18%
- US T-NOTE 3.875% 03/31/28
Geography
- United States85.47%
- Mexico2.73%
- Canada2.50%
- United Kingdom1.84%
- Philippines0.79%
- Panama0.69%
- Japan0.68%
- Chile0.64%
- 4.66%
NUAG 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 | NUAG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.8% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +0.2% |
| 3 years | +5.0% |
| 5 years | −0.2% |
| 10 years | +1.5% |
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 | NUAG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.8% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +2.0% | |
| 2023 | +7.5% | |
| 2022 | −14.0% | |
| 2021 | −2.0% | |
| 2020 | +7.5% |
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NUAG Dividends
- 4.63%
- $0.94
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 4, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 4, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | $0.09 |
NUAG Risk
- 5.7%
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.
- 0.04
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.
- −19.0%
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.
- 0.99
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NUAG Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
24 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.