Vanguard Australian Govt Bond Index
VAN0025AU
Vanguard Australian Govt Bond Index VAN0025AU Strategy
The Bloomberg AusBond Government 0+ Yr Index is a market value weighted index of securities (bonds) issued by the Commonwealth Government of Australia and Australian State Government financing authorities and treasury corporations. The Fund aims to hold all of the securities in the index, where practical, or otherwise a representative sample of the securities included in the index.
The investment objective & strategy is a summary of the investment's principal strategy as written in the prospectus. This information is pulled from the most recent product disclosure document.
Vanguard Australian Govt Bond Index News & Analysis
fixed-income
Higher risk fixed interest tops performance tables: bond fund recap FY 2021
Australian bonds lag while riskier credit benefits from economic recovery and central bank support.
funds
Defending, or on the defensive
The consensus position for several years has been to favour credit risk, to varying degrees, and this came unstuck.
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