Invesco Global Government Bond UCITS ETF Dist

What this fund is

Invesco Global Government Bond UCITS ETF Dist is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Invesco — a single investment you can buy in one trade that bundles many holdings together, so your money is spread out instead of riding on one company. It invests in bonds — loans to governments or companies that pay regular interest, spread across companies all around the world. It aims to track the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Treasuries Total Return Index Value Unhedged USD index, which means its value moves roughly in line with that market instead of relying on a manager to pick winners — a hands-off style known as passive (or index) investing that typically keeps running costs down. In total it holds around 683 different positions, which spreads risk so no single holding decides your outcome. It does this by actually owning the underlying investments (called physical replication). Income the holdings generate, such as dividends, is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class). Its ongoing charge is 0.09% a year — about €9 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. The fund is domiciled in Ireland and is UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results.