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EUR Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

Vanguard · IE00BGYWT403

EUR Corporate Bond UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VECA (ISIN IE00BGYWT403). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. 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 across its target market. It passively tracks the Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Corporates Index index — mirroring that market instead of paying a manager to pick winners, which keeps costs low. 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 0.07% a year — about €7 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. 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 EUR. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 3 out of 7 and its price has swung about 3.8% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2019, and its KID suggests a holding period of 3 years. 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 Vanguard.)

· Tracks the Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Corporates Index index ?
Bond ?Accumulating ?Physical ?Ireland ?
Low yearly feeReinvests dividendsOwns the shares directlyOther
Fund size (AUM) ?
€0
Risk level (SRI) ?
3 / 7 · Medium
1-year return ?
+0.1%
Price Return · to 2026-07-20
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.07%
All-in cost ≈ 0.07%

About this fund

What you own

The Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Corporates Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy.

Dividends

The fund automatically reinvests dividends back into itself, so your holding grows without cash payouts.

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Rolling the dividends straight back in means your money compounds automatically, with nothing for you to reinvest by hand. The flip side is there is no cash income; the growth simply shows up as a higher fund value. Note that reinvested dividends can still be taxable in some countries even though you never receive the cash — the rules depend on where you live.

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

0.07%Yearly fee (TER)
0.07%All-in cost

The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. €0.20 per €100 a year at 0.20%. Lower is cheaper.

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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

Index tracked ?
Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Corporates Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Regulation ?
UCITS
Yes
Launched
Feb 2019
7-year track record
Recommended holding period
3 years

Bond details

Credit quality ?
Investment Grade
Inflation-linked ?
No — nominal (fixed) payouts

Performance

73.180.587.995.3103202120242026

Growth of €100 invested — the line starts at €100.

EUR Corporate Bond UCITS ETF

End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.

YTD-0.4%
1 year+0.1%
3 years+2.8%
5 years-3.3%

Return, year by year

-17.5
+1.5
+5.2
+1.9
'22'23'24'25
3 of 4 up yearsBest: 2024 +5.2%Worst: 2022 -17.5%Calendar-year total returns, in EUR

How bumpy has it been?

3.8%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-4.3%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
0.62
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

-15.4%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about -3.3% a year.
+9.8%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-26.6%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-27.2%
Worst fall on record ?
It has not fully recovered yet.

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Where it trades

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 90% of similar ETFs💰 All-in cost cheaper than 88%📈 Higher 1-yr return than 70%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 100%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 33%📊 Beat its category by 2.3% (1-yr) (category average -2.2%)📊 Beat its category by 3.7% (3-yr) (category average -0.9%)📊 Beat its category by 1.2% (5-yr) (category average -4.5%)

Versus the Bonds · Other · CHF ETFs we track.

Advanced risk

0.89
Sortino (3y) ?
0.65
Calmar (3y) ?
2.7%
Downside deviation ?
50%
Up months (hit rate) ?
€49.87
52-week high ?
€47.71
52-week low ?

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All-in cost0.07%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%
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3-yr return p.a.+2.8%+7.0%+2.5%+6.9%+5.9%+4.4%
5-yr return p.a.-3.3%+4.8%+0.0%+2.8%+1.8%
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Data as of 2026-07-20 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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