- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Bonds
- Address
- 250 West 34th Street, 3rd Floor New York NY United States of America 10119
- IPO Date
- Jul 9, 2015
- Business
- WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund (AGGY) is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Enhanced Yield Index. The fund employs a rules-based approach to re-weight the subcomponents of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, including U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade securities such as U.S. Treasuries, U.S. government-related bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed pass-through securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities with maturities of at least one year; this strategy aims to enhance yield-to-worst while broadly maintaining the index's familiar risk characteristics, effective duration of approximately 6.01 years, and weighted average maturity of 12.62 years as of July 2025. Launched on July 9, 2015, and domiciled in the United States with shares listed on NYSE Arca, AGGY targets investors seeking a core fixed income allocation with enhanced income potential from investment-grade bonds primarily rated AAA through BBB.
The fund, managed by WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. and co-managed by Mellon Investments Corporation, holds approximately 1,652 to 2,160 securities with total assets under management of around $791 million to $824 million as of mid-2025, a gross expense ratio of 0.12%, and monthly distributions reflecting an embedded income yield of 4.87% and SEC 30-day yield of 4.65%. Its asset allocation includes corporates (43.05%), Treasuries (24.85%), mortgage-backed securities (10.47%), government bonds (8.48%), commercial mortgage-backed securities (6.51%), and asset-backed securities (4.96%), with cash equivalents comprising 2.33%. Operations focus on the U.S. fixed income market, serving institutional and retail investors through exchange trading.
In July 2025, AGGY marked its 10th anniversary since inception, highlighting its sustained role in WisdomTree's fixed income offerings amid varying interest rate environments. WisdomTree, the fund's issuer headquartered in New York, NY, reported record assets under management of $126.1 billion in Q2 2025, driven by $3.5 billion in net inflows and strategic diversification; this included the accretive acquisition of Ceres Partners, a $2 billion U.S. farmland manager, positioning the firm for expansion into low-volatility, inflation-hedging assets with a path to $10 billion in farmland AUM over the next decade. No fund-specific acquisitions, partnerships, or product relaunches for AGGY were noted in the last 1-2 years, though WisdomTree launched complementary products like the WisdomTree Europe Defense Fund during this period.