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BND vs IAGG

US Aggregate Bond vs International Bond.

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and IAGG would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BND unmatched 99.0% Shared 0.0% IAGG unmatched 91.7%

Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.

In BND only
17,396 positions
Shared
0 positions
In IAGG only
8,127 positions

Side by side

BND

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$389.05B
whole fund, 6 share classes
TTM yield
4.13%
Top-10 conc.
4.1%
IAGG

iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF

iShares · International Bond

87 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.070%
Net assets
$11.76B
TTM yield
5.20%
Top-10 conc.
6.0%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
93
52
Tax efficiency
50
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BND sub-score IAGG

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BND is 4 bps cheaper than IAGG. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for IAGG.

Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with BND vs IAGG.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in BND

17,396 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%

Only in IAGG

8,127 total
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 1.11%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.76%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.70%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.55%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.54%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.53%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.45%
  • Bundesobligation 0.43%
  • CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND 0.42%
  • CHINA DEVELOPMENT BANK 0.35%

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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see /methodology/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.