iShares Global Aggregate Bond ESG SRI UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares Global Aggregate Bond ESG SRI UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker AEGG (ISIN IE000ZXYID24). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. In plain terms it is about lending to governments and companies in return for regular interest, which tends to be steadier than shares but grows more slowly, spread broadly across markets worldwide. It passively tracks the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low, and its largest holdings include BLK ICS USD LEAF AGENCY DIST, CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM and CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM. Spread across roughly 10697 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 8.3%), no one position makes or breaks the fund.

Its biggest country exposures are ~33.8% United States, ~10.6% China and ~7.9% Japan. By industry it concentrates most in ~65.6% Government and ~10.9% Securitized. Funds like this are often used as the steadier, lower-swing part of a portfolio — the ballast that cushions the ups and downs of shares. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.1% a year — about €10 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. Income such as dividends is automatically reinvested inside the fund (an accumulating share class), so returns compound without you doing anything.

It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Ireland and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in GBP. Its price has swung about 3.1% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2021. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)