iShares Credit Income Active ETF
Performance
Total return to 23 Oct 2026, distributions reinvested, before franking. ASX figures are to 30 Sept 2026 and gross of franking, so they run higher for franked Australian funds.
What it costs to hold
Management fee plus trading costs, compared with similar funds.
A typical fund among Australian fixed income funds would cost $124 (0.25% a year), so ICME is $30 dearer.
Spread is the average gap between buying and selling prices on the ASX. Fees are shown on a flat balance, not compounded on growth. Excludes tax and any adviser or platform fees.
Calendar-year returns
Where the money is
Look-through exposure as at 2 Sept 2026 · 37 securities · top 10 = 52.6%
Country
Sector
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.4 | 0.8 | −0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 3.9YTD |
Total return each month in %, distributions reinvested, before franking. The latest month runs to the last price date. The first year starts from listing.
Top holdings
Most similar funds
Overlap is the share of the portfolio held in common, look-through. Correlation is of daily returns. High overlap means close substitutes.
ICME questions answered
Written from the latest data on this page. General information only, not financial advice.
How diversified is iShares Credit Income Active ETF?
iShares Credit Income Active ETF holds 37 securities.
Its largest country exposure is Australia at 64.9%, based on holdings as at 2 Sept 2026.
Which ETFs does ICME double up with most?
ICME shares the most holdings with Betashares 2028 Fixed Term Corporate Bond Active ETF (28BB) (22% overlap), iShares Core Corporate Bond ETF (ICOR) (21% overlap) and Vanguard Australian Corporate Fixed Interest Index ETF (VACF) (20% overlap). Overlap is the share of the portfolio the two funds hold in common, looking through to the underlying securities.
None of these overlaps is above half, so pairing ICME with one of them adds some genuinely different holdings.
How is iShares Credit Income Active ETF managed – active or passive?
iShares Credit Income Active ETF is actively managed. Rather than tracking an index, a fund manager at iShares decides what to buy and sell, aiming to do better than the market after fees.
Among Australian fixed income funds, active funds charge a median 0.45% a year and index funds 0.22%.
What will I pay in fees for ICME?
ICME charges a management fee of 0.29% a year, about $29 for every $10,000 invested. That is cheaper than 69% of the 471 ASX ETFs we track, where the median fee is 0.44%. Among Australian fixed income funds, the median is 0.23%.
Lower-cost funds with a similar focus include iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) at 0.12%.
The fee is taken from the fund's assets and is already reflected in its returns. You'll also pay brokerage when you buy or sell, and the bid-ask spread, which has averaged 0.09% for ICME.
Does iShares Credit Income Active ETF follow a theme?
Its focus is income. It favours investments that pay higher, regular distributions. Over the past year it paid out 5.2% of its price, across 10 payments.
What is under the hood of ICME?
As at 2 Sept 2026, the largest issuers among ICME's holdings are INSURANCE AUSTRALIA GROUP LTD MTN RegS (6.1% across 3 bonds), HSBC HOLDINGS PLC MTN RegS (5.6% across 2 bonds), CREDIT AGRICOLE SA MTN RegS (4.9% across 2 bonds), BNP PARIBAS SA MTN RegS (4.5% across 2 bonds), COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA MTN RegS (4.3% across 2 bonds), QBE INSURANCE GROUP LTD MTN RegS (4.3% across 3 bonds), VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC RegS (4.3%), ENGIE SA MTN RegS (4.3%), BANCO SANTANDER SA RegS (4.0% across 2 bonds) and AUSNET SERVICES HOLDINGS (FRN) RegS (3.6%).
As an active fund it has no index rule: the manager decides which investments to hold and how much of each, within the limits set out in the PDS.
How well has iShares Credit Income Active ETF performed?
Based on its category, iShares Credit Income Active ETF aims mainly to pay a regular income, with capital growth secondary.
ICME doesn't have a full year of price history yet, so we can't judge its performance.
As an active fund, ICME has no index to track. The fairer test is whether it beats similar funds and its market after fees, over several years.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.