| GBIL | |
|---|---|
| Total return | +25.9% |
| Annualised (CAGR) | +2.3% |
| Volatility (annualised) | +0.7% |
| Sharpe (rf = 0) | 3.45 |
| Deepest drawdown | -0.8% |
| Drawdown peak → trough | 2024-03-28 → 2024-04-01 |
| Dividend yield (12m distributions) | 3.65% (as of 2026-09-29) |
| Rebalancing (from its prospectus) | Monthly |
Rebalancing: per the fund's prospectus summary, its index is rebalanced monthly. That schedule is set by the index provider, not by a view on where the market is going — and it says nothing about how often you should rebalance a portfolio; that side is covered in how often index funds rebalance.
Over the 10.0 years to 2026-09-29 the fund returned +25.9% in total (+2.3% a year), with a deepest drawdown of -0.8% from 2024-03-28 to 2024-04-01. Its worst calendar year was 2021 (-0.1%), its best 2024 (+5.2%).
| Year | GBIL |
|---|---|
| 2026 | +2.5% |
| 2025 | +4.1% |
| 2024 | +5.2% |
| 2023 | +4.9% |
| 2022 | +1.0% |
| 2021 | -0.1% |
| 2020 | +0.8% |
| 2019 | +2.3% |
| 2018 | +1.8% |
| 2017 | +0.7% |
| 2016 | +0.1% |
+25.9% in total, which works out to +2.3% a year over the 10 years to 2026-09-29. Both figures assume dividends were reinvested and the fund's own fees were already deducted, so they are what an investor would have kept — before tax.
2021 — its calendar-year return was -0.1% (net of fees, dividends reinvested). Its best year was 2024 (+5.2%).
-0.8%, from a peak on 2024-03-28 to a trough on 2024-04-01. From that trough it took 53 days (about 1.7 months) to climb back to the earlier peak.
Over the last 12 months it distributed 3.65% of its share price (as of 2026-09-29). That is a past distribution, not a promise of future income, and it is already counted in every return figure on this page.
It does not say GBIL is a good or bad fund, and it is not a forecast. Returns above are history: they already include dividends and already exclude the fund's own fees. A drawdown of -0.8% means an investor who bought at the peak would have watched that much value disappear before it recovered — how long that takes is the part most tables leave out.