🪙Low yearly fee💸Pays cash dividends🏦Owns the shares directly🌍Japan🌐Broadly spread
TER ?
0.09%
Distribution ?
Distributing
Replication ?
Physical Full
Fund size ?
$151.2B
Domicile ?
IE
Fund currency ?
USD
Holdings
301 positions
What this fund is
iShares Japan Govt Bond UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares — 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, focused on Japanese companies. In total it holds around 301 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. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results.
Returns over time
YTD-2.1%
Price history
4.78 USDlatest price · end-of-day · 2026-06-24
What your money could grow into
Pick a monthly amount and a number of years to see how regular investing can add up over time. These are your own assumptions — an illustration, not a prediction.
Using iShares Japan Govt Bond UCITS ETF’s fee. The “assumed yearly return” is just an assumption you can change — not a prediction.
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Where it trades
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London Stock Exchange
JGBD
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Top holdings ?
Top-holdings (estimate) · as of 2026-06-24
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3501.4%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3661.3%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3601.2%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3681.2%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3551.2%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3531.1%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3711.1%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 5YR #1831.1%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3721.1%
JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF) 10YR #3611.1%
How concentrated it is ?
The 10 biggest holdings make up 11.8% of this fund.
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