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iShares € High Yield Corp Bond vs UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+

iShares € High Yield Corp Bond tracks Markit iBoxx EUR Liquid High Yield and UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+ tracks Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation Linked Bond 10+. They are realistic alternatives for the same slot in a portfolio, but because the indices are different nobody can tell you in advance which will return more. What can be compared objectively is the cost, the replication method, the domicile and how each one is structured — and that is what this page does.

What each one tracks

This is the underlying difference: they do not follow the same index, so their returns will diverge.

iShares € High Yield Corp Bond

Markit iBoxx EUR Liquid High Yield

UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+

Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation Linked Bond 10+

Comparison

iShares € High Yield Corp BondUBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+
IndexMarkit iBoxx EUR Liquid High YieldBloomberg US Treasury Inflation Linked Bond 10+
TER0.50%0.20%
Hist. return*~4%~2.5%
ReplicationPhysicalPhysical
DistributionDistributingDistributing
DomicileIrelandLuxembourg
CurrencyEURUSD
Risk3/72/7
ISINIE00B66F4759LU1459803059

What the fee gap actually costs

Applying the SAME 7% gross return to both and contributing €300/month, the only thing moving the result is the TER. This is not a return forecast: it is how much the fee weighs.

HorizoniShares € High Yield Corp BondUBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+Difference
10 years€50,795€51,649€854
20 years€147,923€153,402€5,479
30 years€333,651€353,865€20,214

UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+ is the cheaper of the two. Remember they track different indices: cost is one factor, not the verdict.

Nobody can know which will perform better: they track different indices and past performance is not a prediction. What is objective today is the cost, the replication, the domicile and the distribution policy.

iShares

iShares € High Yield Corp Bond

UBS

UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between iShares € High Yield Corp Bond and UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+?+

They track different indices: iShares € High Yield Corp Bond follows Markit iBoxx EUR Liquid High Yield and UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+ follows Bloomberg US Treasury Inflation Linked Bond 10+. They also differ in cost (0.50% vs 0.20% TER), replication (physical vs physical) and domicile (Ireland vs Luxembourg).

Which one will perform better?+

Nobody can know that: they track different indices, so their returns will diverge, and past index performance is not a prediction. What you can control today is the cost, the tax structure and whether the index actually covers what you want exposure to.

Which one is cheaper?+

UBS Bloomberg Barclays TIPS 10+ has the lower annual fee. Applying the same 7% gross return to both with €300/month, that fee gap alone is worth about €5,479 after 20 years — that part is arithmetic, not a forecast.

Accumulating or distributing?+

Both are distributing, so on this point there is no difference between them.

Can I hold both?+

Yes. Unlike two funds tracking the identical index, these give you genuinely different exposure, so holding both is not automatically redundant — just be aware you may end up overlapping on the largest companies and doubling your rebalancing work.

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