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ISHG holdings

ISHG reports 187 holdings and behaves like 120.4 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
187 Positions reported
120.4 Effective holdings
1.6× Concentration multiple
14.73% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 0.05% at a quoted market price (level 1), 23 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

ISHG's largest investment is Portugal Obrigacoes Do Tesouro OT at 2.29% of net assets. Ireland Government Bonds and Sweden Government Bonds follow; the three together are 5.59%. Ten companies are 14.73% of the fund; the other 177 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, ISHG behaves like 120.4 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings ISHG has become less concentrated: it behaved like 78 at 2019-10-31 and 110.2 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 23 positions were added and 22 dropped; 17.9% of the weight moved. France is the largest country at 10.17% of the portfolio, across 23 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2020-10-31 and 2026-04-30, ISHG went from behaving like 78 equally weighted positions to 110.2 — 41% more, while its top ten went from 21.76% to 16.15% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 172 110.2 16.15% 2.32%
2026-01-31 169 104.5 17.19% 2.29%
2025-10-31 166 104.8 15.96% 1.7%
2025-07-31 165 102.8 17.04% 2.27%
2025-04-30 161 89.2 20.64% 2.55%
2025-01-31 142 103.6 16.32% 2.22%
2024-10-31 136 92.7 19.77% 2.81%
2024-07-31 139 94.9 18.94% 2.83%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 142 90.9 20.11% 3.49%
2024-01-31 135 91.9 19.51% 2.47%
2023-10-31 140 95.5 18.25% 3.33%
2023-07-31 143 102.4 17.19% 2.43%
2023-04-30 141 101.5 17.81% 2.8%
2023-01-31 135 100.2 16.86% 2.51%
2022-10-31 133 97.5 17.52% 2.48%
2022-07-31 141 99.9 17.72% 2.64%
2022-04-30 145 99.8 17.83% 2.69%
2022-01-31 144 102.6 17.12% 2.15%
2021-10-31 145 99.1 17.81% 2.08%
2021-07-31 142 97.6 18.34% 2.93%
2021-04-30 123 87.9 19.89% 3.08%
2021-01-31 113 81.4 21.04% 3.21%
2020-10-31 106 78 21.76% 3.34%
2020-07-31 * 102 64.2 27.42% 4.11%
2020-04-30 * 91 59.3 28.82% 4.15%
2020-01-31 * 86 55.6 30.58% 4.58%
2019-10-31 * 93 56.9 29.82% 4.69%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 187 positions in ISHG's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: ISHG.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Portugal Obrigacoes do Tesouro OT2.32%2.3%
2Ireland Government Bonds1.74%4.1%
3Sweden Government Bonds1.60%5.7%
4Ireland Government Bonds1.59%7.3%
5French Republic Government Bonds OAT1.56%8.8%
6Israel Government Bonds - Fixed1.55%10.4%
7Denmark Government Bonds1.54%11.9%
8Finland Government Bonds1.50%13.4%
9New Zealand Government Bonds1.46%14.9%
10French Republic Government Bonds OAT1.40%16.3%
11French Republic Government Bonds OAT1.38%17.7%
12Netherlands Government Bonds1.38%19.0%
13Netherlands Government Bonds1.38%20.4%
14Finland Government Bonds1.38%21.8%
15Kingdom of Belgium Government Bonds1.37%23.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of ISHG's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
France 9.60%
Italy 9.02%
Germany 8.80%
Japan 8.73%
Spain 5.63%
United Kingdom 5.19%
Israel 4.75%
Australia 4.61%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ISHG's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

4.3%Last twelve months filed
2%Whole series, compounded
5.5%Best month
-5.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ISHG.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

162 positions became 163: 23 added (12.6% of the fund at the later date), 22 dropped (10.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 17.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ISHG compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Canada Government Bonds0.19%0.71% Israel Government Bonds - Fixed1.51%0.75%
Singapore Government Bonds0.84%1.33% Republic of Austria Government Bonds1.43%0.88%
Spain Government Bonds0.55%1.01% Spain Government Bonds0.61%0.16%
Bundesschatzanweisungen0.18%0.47% Canada Government Bonds0.69%0.33%
Israel Government Bonds - Fixed0.22%0.48% Republic of Austria Government Bonds1.51%1.19%
Spain Government Bonds0.50%0.74% Denmark Government Bonds1.87%1.54%

New: French Republic Government Bonds OAT (1.29%), Netherlands Government Bonds (1.15%), Republic of Austria Government Bonds (1.05%), KOREA TREASURY BOND (0.92%), Israel Government Bonds - Fixed (0.92%), KOREA TREASURY BOND (0.81%). Gone: Singapore Government Bonds (1.60%), Norway Government Bonds (0.97%), Netherlands Government Bonds (0.97%), U.K. Gilts (0.89%), French Republic Government Bonds OAT (0.85%), U.K. Gilts (0.69%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

99.95% debt, 0.05% short-term investment as filed; 0.1% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of ISHG (120.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FPEI First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF 174 106.7 17.96% 2026-07-31
FALN iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF 159 109.6 17.8% 2026-07-31
FREI Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund 589 115.9 18.31% 2026-07-31
LDUR PIMCO Enhanced Low Duration Active Exchange-Traded Fund 791 116.3 * 18.44% 2026-06-30
RAVI FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund 246 116.8 18.78% 2026-07-31
TAGG T. Rowe Price QM U.S. Bond ETF 1,817 125.9 20.44% 2026-07-31
WIP State Street(R) SPDR(R) FTSE International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF 179 126 15.12% 2026-06-30
CORB AB Core Bond ETF 705 131.5 21.09% 2026-05-31
BSJS Invesco BulletShares 2028 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 193 137.7 15.77% 2026-05-31
JMST JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF 1,892 138.5 13.59% 2026-05-31

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