VWOB
International BondVanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks Bloomberg USD Emerging Markets Government RIC Capped Index · Inception May 31, 2013
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- -0.5%
- 3 year
- +9.6%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +1.7%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.15% expense ratio.
Based on $6.58B in net assets for the whole fund, all 3 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 5.9% of net assets.
International Bond base · ETF wrapper · 6.10% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentine Republic Government International Bond | 1.20% |
| 2 | Argentine Republic Government International Bond | 0.71% |
| 3 | Argentine Republic Government International Bond | 0.67% |
| 4 | Argentine Republic Government International Bond | 0.58% |
| 5 | Petroleos Mexicanos | 0.55% |
| 6 | Petroleos Mexicanos | 0.51% |
| 7 | Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl | 0.47% |
| 8 | Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl | 0.41% |
| 9 | Qatar Government International Bond | 0.38% |
| 10 | Qatar Government International Bond | 0.38% |
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