Xtrackers Italy Government Bond 0 1 Swap UCITS ETF 1C

Xtrackers Italy Government Bond 0 1 Swap UCITS ETF 1C is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Xtrackers, traded under the ticker 0DX8 (ISIN LU0613540268). 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. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the FTSE Eurozone BOT (Weekly) Index index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include FRANCE (REPUBLIC OF), FRANCE (REPUBLIC OF) and UK I/L GILT. Spread across roughly 37 holdings (the ten largest ≈ 65.4%), no one position makes or breaks the fund. Its biggest country exposures are ~55.7% France, ~11.5% Belgium and ~8.2% United Kingdom. By industry it concentrates most in ~83.5% Government. 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 0.15% a year — about €15 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is an accumulating share class: dividends are rolled straight back in, compounding your returns rather than landing in your account as cash. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in Luxembourg and UCITS-regulated, a European standard built to protect everyday investors and trades in EUR. On the standard KID risk scale it is rated 1 out of 7 and its price has swung about 1.6% over the past year — a gauge of how much the value moves, not a judgement of quality. It launched in 2012. 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 Xtrackers.)