Vanguard ETF launches two new Bond ETFs on the LSE

Vanguard ETF today launches two new Bond ETFs on the London Stock Exchange

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By ETFWorld.co.uk

Mark Fitzgerald, Head of Product Specialism at Vanguard Europ

Vanguard EUR Eurozone Government Bond UCITS ETF – USD Hedged Accumulating

Fund objectives

• The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, and seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Treasury Index.
• The Fund invests in a representative sample of bonds included in the Index in order to closely match the Index’s capital and income return.
• The Index measures the performance of a broad spread of Euro denominated bonds paying a fixed rate of interest which are issued or guaranteed by governments of Eurozone member countries.
• Bonds in the Index have maturities of greater than one year and generally investment grade.
• To a lesser extent the Fund may invest in similar types of bonds outside the Index.

Vanguard EUR Corporate Bond UCITS ETF – USD Hedged Accumulating (VECU)

Fund objectives

• The Fund employs a passive management – or indexing – investment approach, through physical acquisition of securities, and seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Corporates Index.
• The Fund invests in a representative sample of bonds included in the Index in order to closely match the Index’s capital and income return.
• The Index measures the performance of a broad spread of Euro denominated bonds paying a fixed rate of interest which are issued or guaranteed by companies.
• Bonds in the Index have maturities of greater than one year and generally investment grade.
• To a lesser extent the Fund may invest in similar types of bonds outside the Index.

Source: ETFWorld.co.uk