Nuveen ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond
$21.32−0.19 (−0.88%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $490M
- 1Y return
- −0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.13%
- Holdings
- 2523
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.50
- 52W range
The ETF.net NUBD Grade
Score 73 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 79Category 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 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 57Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on NUBD
AThe core bond index, run through an ESG filter. NUBD tracks a Bloomberg MSCI U.S. Aggregate ESG Select benchmark across roughly 2,400 investment-grade bonds, at a fraction of what the typical bond fund in its group charges.
The Fund passively invests in diversified U.S. investment-grade bonds that meet environmental, social and governance criteria and seeks to track the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI U.S. Aggregate ESG Select Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- 0.12% a year, versus a category median around 0.36%. In a low-yield asset class, that gap is most of what an investor actually controls.
- Live since 2017, making it one of the longer-running ESG-screened aggregate bond ETFs rather than a recent launch chasing the theme.
- Roughly 2,400 investment-grade bonds, so no single issuer drives the fund, and it pays monthly like a plain core bond holding.
- Clean mandate: a standard U.S. aggregate bond exposure with the ESG screen layered on top, and it ranks in the top quartile of a 187-fund aggregate bond group.
Worth knowing
- The unscreened giants (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) run at 0.03%. The ESG screen carries a real, if small, price tag over vanilla aggregate exposure.
- Mid-sized and only moderately traded next to the household-name bond ETFs, which can show up as wider spreads at the point of trade.
- The screen changes which bonds it owns, not how it behaves: this is still a full aggregate mandate, so prices move with interest rates.
NUBD Holdings
- Bonds
- 2,523
- 11%
- US T-NOTE 4.375% 07/31/31
NUBD 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 | NUBD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | −0.2% |
| 3 years | +4.1% |
| 5 years | −0.6% |
| 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 | NUBD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.2% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +1.3% | |
| 2023 | +5.4% | |
| 2022 | −12.9% | |
| 2021 | −2.2% | |
| 2020 | +7.2% |
NUBD in the news
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NUBD Dividends
- 4.13%
- $0.89
- $0.07 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 4, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 4, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | $0.08 |
NUBD Risk
- 5.5%
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.
- −0.11
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.
- −17.7%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NUBD Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
21 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.