GYLD vs PBUS

GYLDFArrow Dow Jones Global Yield ETF

PBUSAInvesco MSCI USA ETF

In short

GYLD One ticker, five income buckets. GYLD tracks a Dow Jones index that hunts high yielders across dividend stocks, sovereign debt, corporate bonds, real estate and alternatives, and pays monthly. A 2012 vintage.

PBUS Roughly 500 US stocks for 0.04% a year, benchmarked to the MSCI USA Index instead of the S&P 500. Invesco's rules-based core holding, running since 2017.

Stated mandate

GYLD The Fund passively seeks to match, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones Global Composite Yield Index. It normally invests at least 80% of total assets in index components or depositary receipts.

PBUS The Fund tracks the MSCI USA Index and commits at least 90% of its assets to securities included in that index.

Why people hold it

• GYLD Yield from five places, not one: global dividend stocks, sovereign debt, corporate bonds, real estate, and alternatives like MLPs, preferreds and royalty trusts.spglobal.comspglobal.com 2
• Cash lands monthly, and the approach is rules-based: at least 80% of assets in the index's own components, no manager hunches.
• Developed and emerging markets both in scope, so the yield search is not limited to US paper.spglobal.com
• Running since 2012, through a full rate cycle up and back down.

• PBUS 0.04% a year sits at the floor of its peer group, matching SPYV and a hair above SCHK's 0.03%.invesco.com
• Returns have hugged the MSCI USA Index about as tightly as anything in its cohort, so index-level exposure arrives with very little slippage.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund trading since 2017, with a real market cycle behind it rather than a launch-window track record.
• Roughly 500 names and quarterly distributions: a plain broad-market wrapper with no options overlay, no leverage, no sector tilt bolted on.

Worth knowing

• GYLD 0.75% a year, roughly ten times what plain vanilla index peers like VT (0.06%) charge, and above the typical index wrapper in its group.
• Small and thinly traded: spreads can be wide and a big order can move the price. Not the frictionless tape of a mega-fund.
• Distributions can include return of capital, so a monthly check is not always pure income. Reaching for yield also adds credit and currency risk.

• PBUS MSCI USA is not the S&P 500. Holdings and results drift from an S&P-benchmarked portfolio, which matters if that is the yardstick you track against.invesco.com
• The mandate commits at least 90% of assets to index securities, which leaves a slice of room outside the benchmark.
• Moderately traded rather than one of the tape's busiest tickers, so spreads deserve a glance and limit orders earn their keep.

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