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Fund:

Vanguard Global Short-Term Bond Index Hedged Inc GBP
Sector:

IA Global Mixed Bond
Benchmark:

Index

Discrete calendar year performance

Discrete calendar year performance
Investment	31/03/19 to 31/03/20	31/03/20 to 31/03/21	31/03/21 to 31/03/22	31/03/22 to 31/03/23	31/03/23 to 31/03/24
Vanguard Global Short-Term Bond Index Hedged Inc GBP	1.97%	1.93%	-3.38%	-1.51%	3.77%
IA Global Mixed Bond	2.03%	4.20%	-3.04%	-3.19%	3.70%
N/A	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%

Trailing returns

(*annualised)

Trailing returns
Investment	3 months	6 months	1 year	3 years*	5 years*
Vanguard Global Short-Term Bond Index Hedged Inc GBP	0.24%	2.75%	3.06%	-0.50%	0.49%
IA Global Mixed Bond	0.15%	4.24%	3.17%	-1.36%	0.56%
N/A	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%	N/A%

Overview

Fund Objective: The Fund employs a passive management - or indexing - investment approach and seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Ex US MBS 1-5 Year Float Adjusted and Scaled Index (the "Index").

Manager name	Vanguard Group (Ireland) Limited
Manager start date	31 January 2014
Manager Biography	N/A

Investment style:	*None,Passive/Tracking
Region (geographical)	Global

Benchmark	N/A
Sector	IA Global Mixed Bond
FE fundinfo Rating	N/A

Fees & charges

Fees and Charges

Fees and Charges
Charge	Who receives this?	What is it?	Amount
Initial charge:	The fund manager	Charges applied by the fund management company for investing in their fund. Please note that Investment Managers may charge each time you buy new units or shares in a fund or trust. Where Investment Managers would have an entry charge, we will negotiate to have it waived so you will not be charged.	0.00%
Ongoing Charges:	The fund manager	The annual charge paid to a fund manager to cover the costs of running the fund. It is an estimate based on the actual amount charged in the previous year.	0.15%
Performance Fee:	The fund manager	A performance fee joins up the interest of the fund manager and their investors. A performance fee is taken when the fund beats pre-set conditions.	N/A
Typical transaction cost:	The fund manager	The costs of dealing within a fund, which the Investment Manager must pay to continue managing the assets. This includes where the Manager decides to sell one stock and buy another. The costs will vary from one fund to another based on how often the Investment Manager trades and the costs applied when trading.	0.188%*
Dealing commission:	Halifax	The cost of buying or selling some or all of your investment.	£9.50 (per online trade)

*This is an indication based on the market average. The fund’s actual transaction cost will be shown before you place a trade.
Account charges are not included
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Breakdown

Asset Allocation

Fund size: 4,597,501,719.51 GBP

Chart date: May 6, 2024

Top 10 Holdings

Top 10 Holdings
Security	Weight
United states department of the treasury 0.375% tb 31/01/26 usd100	0.57%
United states department of the treasury 0.5% tnt 28/02/26 usd100	0.55%
United kingdo tsy 4.125% 29jan27	0.52%
Italy (republic of) regs	0.51%
Germany (federal republic of)	0.50%
Repubblica italiana 3.8% bds 15/04/26 eur1000reg s	0.47%
Germany (federal republic of) regs	0.46%
United kingdo tsy 4.5% 07jun28	0.43%
United states department of the treasury 0.25% tnt 31/12/25 usd100	0.40%
T 1 1/2 11/30/28	0.36%

Sectors

Sectors
Sectors	Weight
Government Bonds	54.76%
Financials	12.06%
Industrials	10.59%
Government Agency Bonds	6.59%
Asset/Mortgage-Backed Securities	4.16%
Government Bonds	3.59%
Local Government Bonds	2.77%
Money Market	1.66%
Utilities	1.49%
Government Bonds	1.09%

World regions

World regions
Country	Weight
USA	42.98%
France	6.26%
Germany	6.25%
Japan	4.55%
Canada	4.55%
UK	3.66%
Not Specified	3.53%
Italy	3.40%
Spain	2.84%
Australia	1.94%

ESG

What is ESG?

ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance and is an approach for evaluating to what extent a company works towards social goals. For investors this can be used in order to understand how their funds and the assets they are made up of work towards these goals and use that information to help make sustainable investment choices.

ESG Metric

Score

MSCI ESG Quality Score (0-10)

6.4

MSCI ESG Quality Score - Peer Percentile (0-100)

66%

MSCI ESG Quality Score - Global Percentile (0-100)

49%

Fund Environmental Impact Involvement (%)

Fund Social Score Impact Involvement (%)

Fund Severe Governance Controversies Involvement (%)

Vanguard Global Short-Term Bond Index Hedged Inc GBP