Swiss government bonds, bond funds

[mabi]

@Wolverine

You shouldn’t look at the coupon. Longer term bonds (before 2015) had a bigger coupon and shorter term ones (very recent ones) might have a bigger one too.

Thanks Wolverwine (and others of course) for the great explanation. I of course got both terms coupon and yield mixed up…

To conclude o these specific Swiss bonds ETFs from iShares they finally do not look interesting anymore and on top of that there is hardly anything inside these ETFs (2 bonds for the short term duration ETF). So a no go.

@Wolverine

For bond funds, a case could be made for diversifying credit risk and using a broadly diversified investment grade fund hedged in CHF, of which AGGS seemed like the best last time I checked: https://www.ishares.com/ch/individual/en/products/295830/ishares-core-global-aggregate-bond-ucits-etf-fund

I got this one in my watching list too as it already got mentioned a few times and this forum and probably the best diversified and cheapest one can get based in Ireland and with CHF hedging. Another alternative ETF I’ve been looking at is Vanguard Global Aggregate (VAGE, VAGF, VAGS, VAGP) for the same TER of 0.10% as AGGS but Vanguard’s ETF is not available on the Swiss stock exchange and is not available as hedged CHF. Maybe one day they will also have such a version available.