Nuveen ESG 1-5 Year U.S. Aggregate Bond
$22.68−0.10 (−0.42%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.14%
- Fund size
- $36M
- 1Y return
- +0.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.93%
- Holdings
- 355
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.77
- 52W range
The ETF.net NUSA Grade
Score 48 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.AScore 72Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 20Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 39Category rank
Our read on NUSA
CAn ESG screen applied to the quiet end of the bond market: roughly 300 investment-grade bonds maturing inside five years, for 0.14% a year while the typical core-bond fund charges more than double that.
The fund seeks to track the investment results of its index, which is designed to capture the 1-5 year segment of the U.S. aggregate bond market.
Why people hold it
- 0.14% a year against a core-bond peer median closer to 0.36%. Getting a values screen without paying a premium for it is unusual.
- Follows the Bloomberg MSCI 1-5 Year U.S. Aggregate ESG Select Index, so the screen is published index rules rather than a manager's discretion.
- Holding the 1-5 year slice of the aggregate market mechanically dampens price swings when rates move, versus a fund that owns the full maturity ladder.
- Pays monthly and has been running since 2017, a long history for an ESG-screened bond index fund.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the household-name core bond ETFs.
- Unscreened rivals such as BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%. The ESG filter here costs about a tenth of a percentage point more per year.
- The screen leaves out issuers a standard aggregate index holds, and the short maturity band is a different job from a full-market core bond position.
NUSA Holdings
- Bonds
- 355
- 24%
- US T-NOTE 3.375% 02/29/28
Geography
- United States91.65%
- Canada2.21%
- Japan0.94%
- United Kingdom0.79%
- Germany0.78%
- South Korea0.59%
- Luxembourg0.54%
- France0.47%
- 2.04%
NUSA 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 | NUSA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.1% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −0.5% |
| 1 year | +0.9% |
| 3 years | +4.2% |
| 5 years | +1.4% |
| 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 | NUSA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.1% | |
| 2025 | +5.9% | |
| 2024 | +3.5% | |
| 2023 | +5.2% | |
| 2022 | −5.9% | |
| 2021 | −1.0% | |
| 2020 | +4.9% |
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NUSA Dividends
- 3.93%
- $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 | $0.08 |
| 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 | $0.08 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | $0.08 |
NUSA Risk
- 2.4%
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.
- −0.13
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.
- −9.1%
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.
- 0.40
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NUSA Cost
- The middle half of Short-Term Core Bond funds
- Median 0.25%
3 of the 12 Short-Term Core Bond funds charge less.