iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr UCITS ETF

What this fund is

iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr UCITS ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from iShares, traded under the ticker IDTL (ISIN IE00BSKRJZ44). 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. Its largest holdings include TREASURY BOND, TREASURY BOND and TREASURY BOND. It holds around 47 positions (the ten largest ≈ 39.8%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome.

Geographically it leans ~100% United States and ~0.1% Ireland. By industry it concentrates most in ~100% Government and ~0.1% Other. 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. Income such as dividends is paid out to you as cash (a distributing share class), and over the last year it paid out roughly 6.96% (its trailing yield).

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 USD. Its price has swung about 24.2% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2015. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from iShares.)