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iShares Germany Govt Bond UCITS ETF
iShares Germany Govt Bond UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker SDEU (ISIN IE00B5V94313). 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…
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About this fund
What you own
The Bloomberg Barclays Germany Treasury Bond Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 70 companies across Europe in a single purchase.
Dividends
The fund pays dividends out to you as cash, usually a few times a year.
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You get the dividends as cash you can spend or move elsewhere, which some people like for a sense of income. If you would rather it compounded, you buy more units yourself — it will not reinvest on its own the way an accumulating version does. The same fund is often sold in both versions; what it holds underneath is identical.
How it works
The fund actually buys every share in the index it tracks (full replication).
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Owning every holding keeps things transparent — what is in the index is what the fund actually owns. It can be a touch costlier to run for indexes with thousands of tiny positions, since the fund has to buy and maintain them all. There is no swap bank involved, so there is no extra “what if the partner fails” question to weigh.
Cost
The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. Lower is cheaper.
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For example, a 0.20% fee works out at €0.20 a year for every €100 invested — that’s a generic illustration of the mechanic, not this fund’s own fee. It is skimmed quietly from inside the fund a little each day, so you never get a bill — but it drags on your return every year you hold. On a broad index ETF it is usually a small fraction of a percent; the gap between a cheap and a pricey fund looks tiny on day one but compounds over decades, which is why it is worth a glance.
Fund facts
Bond details
Performance
Growth of €100 invested — the line starts at €100.
End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.
Return, year by year
How bumpy has it been?
The bigger picture
Dividend history
This fund pays its dividends out to you (Semi Annual). Recent payments per share:
| Ex-date | Amount / share |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-18 | €1.3452 |
| 2025-12-11 | €1.2954 |
| 2024-06-13 | €1.3023 |
| 2023-12-14 | €0.233 |
What's inside
By sector ?
The 6 biggest holdings make up 3.0% of the fund.
Top 10 holdings
| # | Company | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND RegS | 2.0% |
| 64 | BLK LEAF FUND AGENCY ACC T0 EUR | 0.4% |
| 65 | GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) | 0.4% |
| 68 | GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) RegS | 0.1% |
| 69 | EUR CASH | 0.0% |
| 70 | USD CASH | 0.0% |
Where to buy this fund
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Where it trades
| Exchange | Ticker | Currency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSE | SDEU | EUR | ★ Primary |
| EUR listings | |||
| B4 | IDEU | EUR | |
| E1 | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| EB | IS0LD | EUR | |
| EB | SDEUL | EUR | |
| EO | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| EU | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| Frankfurt | IS0L | EUR | |
| GD | IS0L | EUR | |
| GF | IS0L | EUR | |
| GM | IS0L | EUR | |
| GS | IS0L | EUR | |
| GT | IS0L | EUR | |
| GZ | IS0L | EUR | |
| I2 | IS0LD | EUR | |
| IX | IS0LD | EUR | |
| IX | SDEUL | EUR | |
| LA | IS0L | EUR | |
| London Stock Exchange | SDEU | EUR | |
| LU | IS0L | EUR | |
| QE | IS0LD | EUR | |
| QT | IS0L | EUR | |
| QX | SDEUL | EUR | |
| QX | IS0LD | EUR | |
| S1 | IS0LD | EUR | |
| S4 | IS0LD | EUR | |
| TH | IS0L | EUR | |
| X1 | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| X2 | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| X9 | IDEUGBP | EUR | |
| X9 | IDEU | EUR | |
| XA | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XE | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XF | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XG | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XH | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XJ | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XL | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XO | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XQ | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XT | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XU | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XV | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XW | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XX | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XY | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
| XZ | IS0LUSD | EUR | |
For serious comparison — full data holdings, percentiles, advanced risk, tilt, flows
Full holdings
As of 2026-07-22 · the fund's own published holdings.
| # | Company | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND RegS | 2.0% |
| 64 | BLK LEAF FUND AGENCY ACC T0 EUR | 0.4% |
| 65 | GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) | 0.4% |
| 68 | GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) RegS | 0.1% |
| 69 | EUR CASH | 0.0% |
| 70 | USD CASH | 0.0% |
How it ranks vs peers
Versus the Bonds · Europe · EUR ETFs we track.
Advanced risk
Concentration depth
Roughly 70 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~60 equal-sized positions.
Estimated fund flows
Estimated from fund-size changes.
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| Index tracked | Bloomberg Barclays Germany Treasury Bond Index | Bloomberg Barclays Euro Corporate Bond Index | Bloomberg Barclays Euro Corporate Bond Index | Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid High Yield Index | Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid High Yield Index | Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid High Yield Index | Bloomberg MSCI Euro Corporate ESG SRI Index |
| Yearly fee (TER) | 0.20% | 0.11% | 0.09% | 0.55% | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.16% |
| All-in cost | 0.20% | 0.11% | 0.09% | 0.55% | 0.50% | 0.50% | 0.16% |
| Fund size | €142M | €15.6B | €13.7B | €8.3B | €7.4B | €7.4B | €6.7B |
| Domicile | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland |
| Replication | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) |
| 3-yr return p.a. | -0.1% | +5.4% | +4.8% | +0.2% | +4.7% | ||
| 5-yr return p.a. | -4.0% | +0.8% | +0.2% | -2.5% | +0.1% | ||
| # holdings | 70 | 4,156 | 4,156 | 675 | 675 | 675 | 3,222 |
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