Bond Etf reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 199 Reddit reviews across 15 subreddits and 58 posts to rank the best Bond Etf brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/Bogleheads, r/ETFs, r/investing, r/bonds, r/eupersonalfinance. Top-rated brands include Vanguard (4.0/5), iShares (3.8/5), BND (4.1/5).

Stats

Reviews199

Subreddits15

Posts58

Brands73

Products39

Top communities

r/Bogleheads63 r/ETFs51 r/investing26 r/bonds17 r/eupersonalfinance11

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By Brand

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Vanguard

4.0

(62)

"VGIT. Intermediate term treasuries have proven to be a superior fixed income asset when paired with equities."

"I use this: Vanguard Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF - EUR Hedged Accumulating (VAGF)."

"With bonds, you generally don't want the duration to exceed your timeframe. So with ~5 years or less you'd want ETFs like: VGIT"

"BNDX for investment grade longer duration"

"BND is classic and simple and doubt y"

"VGIT"

"VGLT is best used as a hedge against a market crash."

"BNDX is also a nice hedge - IMO U.S. investors ignore the international bond market too much."

"For bonds I like FBND, BND and VGIT."

"BND for tax advantaged"

iShares

3.8

(13)

"SGOV is state tax deductible with basically zero risk. Use that as your benchmark."

"If you are also considering a HYSA or MM alternative. SGOV is top of the list."

"AGG and chill"

"TLT"

"What about AGG?"

"IGSB"

"TLT and chill"

"Find a bond ETF that matches your horizon. 8-12 years to retire you might go with something like IEF..."

"AGG"

"$SHY, even though it is a treasury ETF it only focuses on 1-3yr bonds and hasn't been impacted by the rate cut."

BND

4.1

(9)

"One of the lowest fee in the game and monthly payments for the win."

"I have BND and VCIT."

"I do have mostly BND for my bond holdings."

"BND is good for a default, but there are good ones for specific categories like Vgsh, VGLT, tlt, vcsh, emb, cemb"

"I do 5% BND, 2.5% BNDX, 2.5% VTC."

"I use a 70/30 mix of BND/BNDX."

"BND low expense ratio, 2.5% yield."

"BND is probably fine and is what is recommended for a three-fund portfolio."

"BND (total bonds) or BSV (short term bonds)."

SGOV

4.3

(6)

"SGOV is giving a guaranteed 5.5 percent. Don’t mess with this."

"Paying 5.3% annual yield as basically a monthly dividend."

"SGOV BILL IEI IEF TLT"

"SGOV is my favorite."

"Check out SGOV, treasuries are not taxed at state, only fed"

"SGOV"

Schwab

3.8

(6)

"I’m now using SCHQ over TLT with an expense ratio of 0.03"

"SCHO, SCHP, BND, there are a few others."

"I'm with Schwab, and use SCHZ for this sort of thing."

"Schz is Schwab's commission free total bond market etf with low MER (0.03%ish?)."

"SCHR SCHO SCHZ are three that I own."

"If I had to it would be SCHZ."

BNDW

3.8

(5)

"BNDW."

"That bond ETF is BNDW."

"I have BNDW. It's 50/50 of BND and BNDX. It's more than enough bond exposure that I'll ever need."

"BNDW is fine."

"I would lock in Series I bonds over BNDW."

EDV

3.8

(4)

"EDV, or VGLT. Long treasuries are always a decent hold."

"Will likely pivot to EDV as we approach the all time highs."

"I personally hold a small amount of EDV."

"$EDV or $ZROZ. They're more volatile than the S&P."

VCIT

4.0

(3)

"VCIT is an intermediate corporate bond fund."

"VCIT has done well this year."

"My current 4 favorite bond ETFs: JCPB, HTRB, VCIT, BINC."

BLV

4.0

(3)

"BLV, BNDX."

"BLV w/ its 13.5 year duration."

"BLV has been decent for me since September."

#10

GOVT

4.0

(3)

"Sadly Vanguard doesn’t have QUITE an equivalent."

"GOVT"

"I would pick GOVT (or VGIT) over BND."

#11

BIV

4.0

(3)

"I like biv. I see a lot of people recommend bnd, agg, tlt."

"I'd rather have BIV."

"Good intermediate bond funds to check out are BIV (duration 6.3 years) and BND (duration 5 years)."

#12

TLT

4.0

(3)

"SGOV BILL IEI IEF TLT"

"TLT or EDV would be good here."

"I suggest looking at TLT, EDV, ZROZ."

#13

VGLT

4.0

(3)

"Long treasuries are always a decent hold."

"I am all in VGLT for my Bond part."

"VGLT if you’re 20+ years at for first 20% of bonds."

#14

AGG

3.7

(3)

"Look into AGG or BND."

"AGG, HCRB, CGCP are all suitable."

"I use AGG as benchmark."

#15

BINC

4.5

(2)

"Binc is the best I found."

"My current 4 favorite bond ETFs: JCPB, HTRB, VCIT, BINC."

#16

TMF

4.5

(2)

"TMF 3x leveraged TLT has killed it for me."

"TMF."

#17

ZAG

4.0

(2)

"ZAG or VAB"

"Why not go with ZAG?"

#18

EUNA

4.0

(2)

"EUNA etf. If you want global bonds."

"I am using EUNA. It looks great to me as it is aggregated global bonds and accumulating."

#19

XBB

4.0

(2)

"XBB. Been around since forever."

"XBB seems the most comparable to ZAG."

#20

ICVT

4.0

(2)

"I'm a big fan of ICVT."

"I got into ICVT about a month ago."

#21

BMO

4.0

(2)

"Govz has the absolute longest duration, followed by govz."

"GOVZ, longest duration, slightly cheaper than ZROZ (0.1% vs 0.15%)"

#22

JPST

4.0

(2)

"I like JPST, or JMST if you are in a high tax bracket."

"I have used JPST in the past and I don't believe its NAV has varied more than a few pennies."

#23

Treasurydirect

4.0

(2)

"I bonds could be worth considering buying directly from Treasurydirect."

"Why not buy iBonds at www.treasurydirect.gov?"

#24

Xtrackers

4.0

(2)

"I didn't find anything better than the xtrackers one."

"My suggestion: Xtrackers Global Sovereign UCITS ETF 1C EUR hedged (LU0378818131)..."

#25

US News

4.0

(2)

"For the money, you are holding for two years and with less risk to your principal, consider Ultra-short bond funds."

"High-yield bond funds: [https://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/rankings/high-yield-bond](https://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds)"

#26

Amundi

4.0

(2)

"There's govu (the same etf but dollar denominated."

"There's also ggov(by amundi) euro denominated unhedged."

#27

JustETF

3.5

(2)

"I'm closely following this: https://www.justetf.com/it/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00BG47KH54. It's new, but has low TER and is hedged"

"I found one ETF that might suit you."

#28

Bond ETF

2.5

(2)

"Short term diversified bond ETF."

"I'm not a fan of Bond ETFs and never felt comfortable investing in them."

#29

SCYB

5.0

(1)

"It just seems to be best in class and hits all the right notes for that."

#30

UBS

5.0

(1)

"The UBS ETF (LU) Bloomberg Euro Inflation Linked 10+ UCITS ETF (EUR) A-dis seeks to track the Bloomberg Euro Government Inflation-Linked 10+ Year index."

#31

iShares iBond Target Maturity ETFs

5.0

(1)

"I like the iShares iBond target maturity ETFs."

#32

PULS

4.0

(1)

"Ultra short right now. Duration matter. PULS"

#33

Total Bond

4.0

(1)

"Some protection against rising rates, recession, inflation/deflation."

#34

OPTAX

4.0

(1)

"I like OPTAX."

#35

Invesco

4.0

(1)

"My go to are individual treasuries, individual agencies, and bulletshares."

#36

TFLO

4.0

(1)

"If interest rates go up. TFLO"

#37

IEI

4.0

(1)

"SGOV BILL IEI IEF TLT"

#38

IEF

4.0

(1)

"SGOV BILL IEI IEF TLT"

#39

VUTY

4.0

(1)

"VUTY currently yields a bit over 3% with a management fee of 0.07%."

#40

US Treasuries

4.0

(1)

"I plan to only hold US treasuries or ibonds as my bonds from here on."

#41

BME

4.0

(1)

"I'd recommend instead monthly CEFs that pay good interest. I own BME, BMEZ, BST, BSTZ."

#42

Bond Fund

4.0

(1)

"I’d actually suggest you look at a quality actively managed bond fund vs a passive / index tracking etf."

#43

Vanguard Global Bond Index Fund

4.0

(1)

"VGOV is fine (or VGVA if you don't want to deal with the dividends)."

#44

Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares (BND)

4.0

(1)

"Looks like people are talking about these funds: BND, BNDW, BNDX."

#45

iShares TLT

4.0

(1)

"TLT and EDV are mentioned a lot."

#46

SGX QL3

4.0

(1)

"If you are looking out for a high income payout, check out: QL3"

#47

Schwab SCHJ

4.0

(1)

"Schwab's SCHJ has the best expense ratio."

#48

Vanguard BND

4.0

(1)

"BND and AGG are tracking the same index."

#49

USIG

4.0

(1)

"USIG IGIB GTO. Run morningstar on them"

#50

FXNAX

4.0

(1)

"FXNAX, but truly don’t need to worry about bonds at this age maybe look at TBIL or SGOV"

#51

BHK

4.0

(1)

"BHK, FBND, BOND"

#52

Global

4.0

(1)

"You could then simply go with a global EUR-hedged bond ETF like [this one]..."

#53

AGGH

4.0

(1)

"The standard recommendation if I recall correctly are usually AGGH, IGLA, VAGU for aggregate bonds..."

#54

VSB

4.0

(1)

"I use VSB as the fixed income component of my portfolio that I *might* need in the next couple years."

#55

IUSB

4.0

(1)

"I use IUSB since it includes junk bonds but it is US only."

#56

MINT

4.0

(1)

"I like MINT for cash equivalent."

#57

Fidelity

4.0

(1)

"Recommend low cost 5-10 year Corp Bond ETF."

#58

IBDR

4.0

(1)

"I lean towards target-duration, investment grade corporate bonds such as IBDR."

#59

BSV

4.0

(1)

"Consider BSV, VRIG, FLOT."

#60

JCPB

4.0

(1)

"My current 4 favorite bond ETFs: JCPB, HTRB, VCIT, BINC."

#61

HTRB

4.0

(1)

"My current 4 favorite bond ETFs: JCPB, HTRB, VCIT, BINC."

#62

BNDX

4.0

(1)

"BLV, BNDX."

#63

GOVZ

4.0

(1)

"I bought ticker govz about three weeks ago."

#64

FBND

4.0

(1)

"I use FBND for my general bond coverage."

#65

ILTB

4.0

(1)

"I did buy a decent chunk of ILTB."

#66

Corporate Bond Fund

3.0

(1)

"I’d rather choose a corporate bond fund if you want a safe bet for long term holding."

#67

FIG

3.0

(1)

"I hold some FIG.to but it is for sale."

#68

CSAV

3.0

(1)

"Why not use CSAV?"

#69

PSA

3.0

(1)

"PSA.to high interest savings etf."

#70

PRR

3.0

(1)

"Invest in funds such as PRR."

#71

HBB

3.0

(1)

"You might also read-up on HBB and ZDB."

#72

Finviz

3.0

(1)

"Came up with these loaded in Finviz screener."

#73

TBT

3.0

(1)

"So why not invest in TBT?"

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