Designed to provide broad exposure to the Government Bond ETFs category of the market, the Invesco Equal Weight 0-30 Year Treasury ETF (GOVI) is a smart beta exchange traded fund launched on 10/11/2007.
What Are Smart Beta ETFs?
The ETF industry has long been dominated by products based on market cap weighted indexes, a strategy created to reflect the market or a particular market segment.
A good option for investors who believe in market efficiency, market cap weighted indexes offer a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way of replicating market returns.
There are some investors, though, who think it's possible to beat the market with great stock selection; this group likely invests in another class of funds known as smart beta, which track non-cap weighted strategies.
These indexes attempt to select stocks that have better chances of risk-return performance, based on certain fundamental characteristics or a combination of such characteristics.
This area offers many different investment choices, such as simplest equal-weighting, fundamental weighting and volatility/momentum based weighting methodologies; however, not all of these strategies can deliver superior results.
Fund Sponsor & Index
Because the fund has amassed over $1.17 billion, this makes it one of the average sized ETFs in the Government Bond ETFs. GOVI is managed by Invesco. This particular fund seeks to match the performance of the ICE 1-30 YR LADDERED MATURITY US TRSR ID before fees and expenses.
The ICE 1-30 Year Laddered Maturity US Treasury Index is designed to track the performance of up to 30 U.S. Treasury Notes or Bonds representing the annual February maturity ladder across the yield curve.
Cost & Other Expenses
When considering an ETF's total return, expense ratios are an important factor. And, cheaper funds can significantly outperform their more expensive cousins in the long term if all other factors remain equal.
Annual operating expenses for this ETF are 0.15%, making it on par with most peer products in the space.
The fund has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 3.84%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
ETFs offer diversified exposure and thus minimize single stock risk, but it is still important to delve into a fund's holdings before investing. Most ETFs are very transparent products and many disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
When you look at individual holdings, United States Treasury Note/bond-6.63%-02-15-2027 (T) accounts for about 3.4% of the fund's total assets, followed by United States Treasury Note/bond-2.75%-02-15-2028 (T) and United States Treasury Note/bond-5.25%-02-15-2029 (T).
GOVI's top 10 holdings account for about 33.68% of its total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
So far this year, GOVI has lost about -0.7%, and is up about 3.97% in the last one year (as of 05/28/2026). During this past 52-week period, the fund has traded between $26.43 and $28.30.
The ETF has a beta of 0.34 and standard deviation of 8.60% for the trailing three-year period. With about 32 holdings, it has more concentrated exposure than peers .
Alternatives
Invesco Equal Weight 0-30 Year Treasury ETF is not a suitable option for investors seeking to outperform the Government Bond ETFs segment of the market. Instead, there are other ETFs in the space which investors should consider.
iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH) tracks ICE U.S Treasury 10-20 Year Bond Index and the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) tracks ICE U.S. Treasury 20+ Year Bond Index. iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF has $12.24 billion in assets, iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has $43.5 billion. TLH has an expense ratio of 0.15% and TLT changes 0.15%.
Investors looking for cheaper and lower-risk options should consider traditional market cap weighted ETFs that aim to match the returns of the Government Bond ETFs
Bottom Line
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