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iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3yr UCITS ETF (Dist) (IBTS.L)

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A single purchase quietly spreads your money across a broad basket of short-dated US government bonds.

£94.78
≈ 9,478p · London-listed shares are usually quoted in pence (GBX) elsewhere; the Almanac shows pounds (£1 = 100p).

Is iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3yr UCITS ETF (Dist) a good fund for a UK beginner?

The honest version: A single purchase quietly spreads your money across a broad basket of short-dated US government bonds.

No rating · no target price · nothing for sale here
Price+4.2%
52-week range+5% past year
£94.78
Low £93.37High £99.97
Where today's price sits versus its past year - context, not a signal.
If you had put £1,000 into iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3yr UCITS ETF (Dist)
£1,042+4%

Over about 2 years to 2026-07-15. This is the share price only; any dividends would add to it. Past performance is not a guide to the future, and it could just as easily have fallen.

Why has it been moving?▼ -0% past week · ▲ +5% past year

This is a fund, so it moves with its whole basket (Bonds) - not any single company's news. One share having a bad day barely shows up here.

What does iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3yr UCITS ETF (Dist) do?

This fund tracks the ICE US Treasury 1-3 Year Bond index, holding US government debt that matures in one to three years. Instead of picking individual government loans, putting money into this fund buys a slice of many short-term bonds all at once. The ongoing charge is 0.07% a year, which means a fee of about seventy pence annually for every thousand pounds invested. Because this is a distributing fund, the interest payments are paid out to you as cash rather than being automatically reinvested.

What it tracks

Holds short-dated US government bonds (1 to 3 years), priced in dollars, paying the interest out as cash.

OCF: Ongoing Charge Figure: the fund's yearly running cost, taken automatically. 0.22% is about £2.20 a year for every £1,000 you hold.
0.07%
≈ £0.70 a year per £1,000 invested
Yield: The income the fund has paid out over the past year as a percentage of its price. Accumulating funds reinvest this for you instead of paying cash.
Paid out as cash
Acc / Dist: Accumulating (Acc) reinvests dividends inside the fund automatically; Distributing (Dist) pays them to you as cash. Same index either way.
Distributing
income paid as cash
Holdings: Roughly how many different investments the fund spreads your money across. More holdings usually means more diversification.
Short-dated US government bonds maturing in 1 to 3 years
Spread of your money
Index
ICE US Treasury 1-3 Year Bond
United States
Domicile
Ireland
ISA-eligible
Replication
Physical (holds the underlying bonds)
Category
Bonds
Where it fits in a portfolio
What's strong
  • Simple one-fund exposure to short-dated US government debt
  • Very low ongoing cost of just 0.07% a year
  • Regular cash payouts from the interest earned
What to watch
  • It falls in value when its market falls
  • Currency swings between British pounds and US dollars affect a UK investor
  • Returns are tied strictly to short-term US government borrowing rates

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Appears in
Low-cost index funds & ETFs (UK)

What are the pros and cons of iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3yr UCITS ETF (Dist)?

3bull points
3bear points

How many points the write-up makes each way — a balance check, not a score or verdict.

The bull case3
  • Simple one-fund exposure to short-dated US government debt
  • Very low ongoing cost of just 0.07% a year
  • Regular cash payouts from the interest earned
Key risks3
  • It falls in value when its market falls
  • Currency swings between British pounds and US dollars affect a UK investor
  • Returns are tied strictly to short-term US government borrowing rates
Confidence: · data: GBP · flags: none · Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™
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This plain-English summary was auto-generated on 2026-08-01 from public data and checked for an education-only, no-advice tone (the figures above carry their own, usually fresher, 'as of' date). It's information, never a recommendation.

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