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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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Total Return (%) | 0.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | -1.9 | 6.6 | 5.1 | -1.9 | -14.5 | 5.8 | 2.4 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | 1.0 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 8.2 | 5.6 | -1.4 | -11.2 | 7.1 | 3.4 |
Performance is shown after deduction of ongoing charges. Any entry and exit charges are excluded from the calculation.
1y | 3y | 5y | 10y | Incept. | |
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Total Return (%) | 5.05 | -0.71 | -1.08 | 0.40 | 1.23 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | 5.98 | 0.95 | 0.19 | 2.04 | 2.45 |
YTD | 1m | 3m | 6m | 1y | 3y | 5y | 10y | Incept. | |
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Total Return (%) | 1.13 | 0.78 | 0.43 | 0.87 | 5.05 | -2.10 | -5.28 | 4.11 | 16.50 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%) | 1.60 | 1.20 | 0.82 | 1.80 | 5.98 | 2.89 | 0.95 | 22.41 | 35.42 |
From 31-Dec-2019 To 31-Dec-2020 |
From 31-Dec-2020 To 31-Dec-2021 |
From 31-Dec-2021 To 31-Dec-2022 |
From 31-Dec-2022 To 31-Dec-2023 |
From 31-Dec-2023 To 31-Dec-2024 |
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Total Return (%)
as of 31-Dec-2024 |
5.15 | -1.89 | -14.48 | 5.83 | 2.40 |
Constraint Benchmark 1 (%)
as of 31-Dec-2024 |
5.58 | -1.39 | -11.22 | 7.15 | 3.40 |
The figures shown relate to past performance. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Markets could develop very differently in the future. It can help you to assess how the fund has been managed in the past
Share Class and Benchmark performance displayed in GBP, hedged share class benchmark performance is displayed in USD.
Performance is shown on a Net Asset Value (NAV) basis, with gross income reinvested where applicable. The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations if your investment is made in a currency other than that used in the past performance calculation. Source: Blackrock
Sustainability Characteristics provide investors with specific non-traditional metrics. Alongside other metrics and information, these enable investors to evaluate funds on certain environmental, social and governance characteristics. Sustainability Characteristics do not provide an indication of current or future performance nor do they represent the potential risk and reward profile of a fund. They are provided for transparency and for information purposes only. Sustainability Characteristics should not be considered solely or in isolation, but instead are one type of information that investors may wish to consider when assessing a fund.
The metrics are not indicative of how or whether ESG factors will be integrated into a fund. Unless otherwise stated in fund documentation and included within a fund’s investment objective, the metrics do not change a fund’s investment objective or constrain the fund’s investable universe, and there is no indication that an ESG or Impact focused investment strategy or exclusionary screens will be adopted by a fund. For more information regarding a fund's investment strategy, please see the fund's prospectus.
Review the MSCI methodologies behind Sustainability Characteristics using the links below.
To be included in MSCI ESG Fund Ratings, 65% (or 50% for bond funds and money market funds) of the fund’s gross weight must come from securities with ESG coverage by MSCI ESG Research (certain cash positions and other asset types deemed not relevant for ESG analysis by MSCI are removed prior to calculating a fund’s gross weight; the absolute values of short positions are included but treated as uncovered), the fund’s holdings date must be less than one year old, and the fund must have at least ten securities.
Business Involvement metrics can help investors gain a more comprehensive view of specific activities in which a fund may be exposed through its investments.
Business Involvement metrics are not indicative of a fund’s investment objective, and, unless otherwise stated in fund documentation and included within a fund’s investment objective, do not change a fund’s investment objective or constrain the fund’s investable universe, and there is no indication that an ESG or Impact focused investment strategy or exclusionary screens will be adopted by a fund. For more information regarding a fund's investment strategy, please see the fund's prospectus.
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Business Involvement metrics are calculated by BlackRock using data from MSCI ESG Research which provides a profile of each company’s specific business involvement. BlackRock leverages this data to provide a summed up view across holdings and translates it to a fund's market value exposure to the listed Business Involvement areas above.
Business Involvement metrics are designed only to identify companies where MSCI has conducted research and identified as having involvement in the covered activity. As a result, it is possible there is additional involvement in these covered activities where MSCI does not have coverage. This information should not be used to produce comprehensive lists of companies without involvement. Business Involvement metrics are only displayed if at least 1% of the fund’s gross weight includes securities covered by MSCI ESG Research.
Name | Weight (%) |
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UMBS 30YR TBA(REG A) | 7.61 |
GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF) 1.3 10/15/2027 | 3.73 |
MEXICO (UNITED MEXICAN STATES) (GO 6 05/13/2030 | 2.23 |
GNMA2 30YR TBA(REG C) | 1.87 |
FNMA 30YR UMBS SUPER | 1.51 |
Name | Weight (%) |
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CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM 2.75 02/17/2032 | 1.38 |
FNMA 30YR UMBS | 1.21 |
CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM 2.68 05/21/2030 | 1.05 |
FHLMC_5482D CF | 1.05 |
CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNM 2.79 12/15/2029 | 0.94 |
% of Market Value
% of Market Value
% of Market Value
Type | Fund | Benchmark | Net |
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0 - 1 Years | 4.94 | 0.20 | 4.74 |
1 - 2 Years | 8.05 | 12.77 | -4.72 |
2 - 3 Years | 13.02 | 11.31 | 1.71 |
3 - 5 Years | 24.95 | 20.24 | 4.71 |
5 - 7 Years | 15.53 | 14.04 | 1.49 |
7 - 10 Years | 19.02 | 19.86 | -0.84 |
10 - 15 Years | 3.54 | 5.32 | -1.78 |
15 - 20 Years | 2.05 | 5.57 | -3.52 |
20+ Years | 11.92 | 10.67 | 1.25 |
Cash and Derivatives | -3.02 | 0.01 | -3.03 |
Investor Class | Currency | NAV | NAV Amount Change | NAV % Change | NAV As Of | 52wk High | 52wk Low | ISIN |
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Class A1 | USD | 53.10 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 14-Mar-2025 | 54.70 | 51.77 | LU0012053665 |
Class A2 | USD | 81.17 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 14-Mar-2025 | 82.38 | 77.03 | LU0184696937 |
Class A2 Hedged | GBP | 11.54 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 14-Mar-2025 | 11.71 | 10.97 | LU0808759830 |
Class A2 Hedged | EUR | 175.19 | 0.32 | 0.18 | 14-Mar-2025 | 179.21 | 168.72 | LU0330917880 |
Class A3 | USD | 53.03 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 14-Mar-2025 | 54.65 | 51.76 | LU0184696853 |
Class D2 | USD | 87.17 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 14-Mar-2025 | 88.30 | 82.43 | LU0297941972 |
Class D2 Hedged | GBP | 11.82 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 14-Mar-2025 | 11.97 | 11.20 | LU0871639547 |
Class D2 Hedged | EUR | 183.91 | 0.33 | 0.18 | 14-Mar-2025 | 187.75 | 176.48 | LU0827888594 |
Class D3 | USD | 53.10 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 14-Mar-2025 | 54.72 | 51.83 | LU0827888321 |
Class I2 | USD | 11.40 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 14-Mar-2025 | 11.54 | 10.77 | LU1087925589 |
Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Mr. Rieder is responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets. He is a member of BlackRock’s Executive Sub-Committee on Investments, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.
Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.
Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar.
From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.
Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the business school's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.
Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation, and Trustee for the US Olympic Foundation. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.
Russell J Brownback, Managing Director, is Head of Global Macro Positioning for Fixed-Income and a member of the Fundamental Fixed-Income Executive Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Brownback was a Senior Partner with R3 Capital Partners. From 1992 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as a Managing Director and proprietary trader/portfolio manager for the Global Principal Strategies team. Previously, he was the head of the firm's Corporate and Emerging Markets bond trading desks.
Mr. Brownback earned a BA degree in economics from Hobart College in 1987 and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1992. He has been an adjunct professor for both graduate and undergraduate studies at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Business.
Aidan Doyle, CFA, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager within the Global Bond Team. He is co-lead manager for the BGF World Bond Fund, the BGF Global Government Bond Fund, the BGF Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, BGF ESG Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, and the BGF US Dollar Bond Fund.
Mr. Doyle began his career at BlackRock in 2010 when he joined the Global Bond Team as a portfolio manager. He is responsible for developing macro directional and relative value investment strategies and managing the team's global aggregate and global government bond portfolios.
Mr. Doyle. has a MSc degree in Finance from the Imperial College London, with a focus on fixed income and derivatives. He earned a BA degree in Economics, with honors, from Trinity College Dublin, with a focus on financial economics.
Review the MSCI methodology behind the Sustainability Characteristics and Business Involvement metrics: 1ESG Fund Ratings; 2Index Carbon Footprint Metrics; 3Business Involvement Screening Research; 4ESG Screened Index Methodology; 5ESG Controversies; 6MSCI Implied Temperature Rise
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The fund invests a large portion of assets which are denominated in other currencies; hence changes in the relevant exchange rate will affect the value of the investment. The fund invests in fixed interest securities issued by companies which, compared to bonds issued or guaranteed by governments, are exposed to greater risk of default in the repayment of the capital provided to the company or interest payments due to the fund. The fund investments may be subject to liquidity constraints, which means that shares may trade less frequently and in small volumes, for instance smaller companies. As a result, changes in the value of investments may be more unpredictable. In certain cases, it may not be possible to sell the security at the last market price quoted or at a value considered to be fairest. The fund invests in fixed interest securities such as corporate or government bonds which pay a fixed or variable rate of interest (also known as the ‘coupon’) and behave similarly to a loan. These securities are therefore exposed to changes in interest rates which will affect the value of any securities held. The fund(s) may invest in structured credit products such as asset backed securities (‘ABS’) which pool together mortgages and other debts into single or multiple series credit products which are then passed on to investors, normally in return for interest payments based on the cash flows from the underlying assets. These securities have similar characteristics to corporate bonds but carry greater risk as the details of the underlying loans is unknown, although loans with similar terms are typically packaged together. The stability of returns from ABS are not only dependent on changes in interest-rates but also changes in the repayments of the underlying loans as a result of changes in economic conditions or the circumstances of the holder of the loan. These securities can therefore be more sensitive to economic events, may be subject to severe price movements and can be more difficult and/or more expensive to sell in difficult markets.
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