iShares Yield Plus 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 $131 (0.26% a year), so IYLD is $63 cheaper.
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 · 137 securities · top 10 = 31.0%
Country
Sector
Monthly returns
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.2 | 0.6 | −0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.2YTD | ||
| 2025 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | −0.1 | 0.2 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | −0.0 | −0.2 | −1.0 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | −0.8 |
| 2021 | 0.2 | −0.3 | −0.2 | 0.3 | −0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | −0.0 | −0.4 | −0.2 | −0.1 | −0.2 |
| 2020 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
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.
IYLD questions answered
Written from the latest data on this page. General information only, not financial advice.
How diversified is iShares Yield Plus ETF?
iShares Yield Plus ETF holds 137 securities.
Its largest country exposure is Australia at 34.7%, based on holdings as at 2 Sept 2026.
Which ETFs does IYLD double up with most?
IYLD shares the most holdings with iShares Core Corporate Bond ETF (ICOR) (46% overlap), Vanguard Australian Corporate Fixed Interest Index ETF (VACF) (36% overlap) and VanEck Australian Floating Rate ETF (FLOT) (27% 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 IYLD with one of them adds some genuinely different holdings.
How is iShares Yield Plus ETF managed – active or passive?
iShares Yield Plus ETF is passively managed: it follows an index and holds what that index holds, rather than relying on a manager's stock picks. Its index uses a dividend approach, so it is sometimes called "smart beta".
Among Australian fixed income funds, active funds charge a median 0.43% a year and index funds 0.22%.
What will I pay in fees for IYLD?
IYLD charges a management fee of 0.12% a year, about $12 for every $10,000 invested. That is cheaper than 93% of the 471 ASX ETFs we track, where the median fee is 0.44%. Among Australian fixed income funds, the median is 0.24%.
It is the cheapest of the 6 income Australian fixed income funds we track.
If you would rather have a manager choose the investments, active options such as Perpetual Diversified Income Active ETF (DIFF) at 0.59% and Seed Financial Income Fund Active ETF (SFIF) at 0.55% cost more.
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 0.08% for IYLD.
Does iShares Yield Plus ETF follow a theme?
Its focus is income. It favours investments that pay higher, regular distributions. Over the past year it paid out 4.6% of its price, across 12 payments.
What is under the hood of IYLD?
As at 2 Sept 2026, the largest issuers among IYLD's holdings are COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK UA (SYDNEY B MTN RegS (2.6% across 4 bonds), SUNCORP BANK (NORFINA LTD) MTN RegS (2.4% across 4 bonds), ALPHABET INC MTN RegS (2.2% across 2 bonds), CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE RegS (2.0% across 3 bonds), CPPIB CAPITAL INC MTN RegS (1.9% across 3 bonds), ING BANK (AUSTRALIA) LTD MTN RegS (1.9% across 4 bonds), UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LTD (SYDNEY B MTN RegS (1.7% across 2 bonds), CPPIB CAPITAL INC RegS (1.5% across 2 bonds), DBS BANK LTD (SYDNEY BRANCH) MTN RegS (1.4% across 3 bonds) and MACQUARIE BANK LTD RegS (1.4% across 3 bonds).
Rather than simply weighting companies by market size, its index favours companies that pay higher dividends.
How well has iShares Yield Plus ETF performed?
Based on its category, iShares Yield Plus ETF aims mainly to pay a regular income, with capital growth secondary.
To 23 Oct 2026, with distributions reinvested, it returned 3.2% over 1 year (median −0.1%; ranked 13 of 36), 5.2% a year over 3 years (median 4.5% a year; ranked 8 of 27) and 3.6% a year over 5 years (median 0.9% a year; ranked 6 of 22). The medians and rankings compare it with Australian fixed income funds. Since listing in 2020 it has returned 3.1% a year.
Tracking difference is the gap between a fund's return and its index's return. We don't hold index returns, so we can't measure it for IYLD; the issuer reports it in the monthly fact sheet. As a guide, a well-run index fund trails its index by about its fee, here 0.12% a year, and a much bigger gap is a warning sign.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.