A 5.6% Yield and a $3 Million Buy Point to a Different Kind of Emerging Markets Bet

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Jonathan Ponciano, The Motley Fool

Sun, January 4, 2026 astatine 4:03 PM CST 5 min read

Chicago-based GP Brinson Investments bought 50,100 shares of VWOB successful the 4th quarter, with an estimated commercialized worth of $3.38 cardinal based connected quarterly mean pricing.
The quarter-end presumption worth roseate by $3.42 million, reflecting some the stock acquisition and terms movement.
As of year-end, the money reported holding 136,580 VWOB shares worthy $9.21 million.
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Chicago-based GP Brinson Investments disclosed a bargain of 50,100 shares of the Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VWOB) successful a Friday SEC filing, with an estimated transaction worth of $3.38 cardinal based connected quarterly mean pricing.

According to its SEC filing released Friday, GP Brinson Investments LLC accrued its involvement successful the Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VWOB) by 50,100 shares. The estimated worth of this stock acquisition was $3.38 million, calculated utilizing the mean closing terms for the quarter. The quarter-end worth of the VWOB presumption accrued by $3.42 million, reflecting some the further shares and terms changes.

This bargain brought VWOB to 3.97% of GP Brinson’s reportable 13F AUM arsenic of December 31.

Top holdings aft the filing:

NYSEMKT: VTI: $92.48 cardinal (39.8% of AUM)
NYSEMKT: VEA: $48.59 cardinal (20.9% of AUM)
NYSEMKT: AGG: $28.03 cardinal (12.1% of AUM)
NYSEMKT: VWO: $19.33 cardinal (8.3% of AUM)
NASDAQ: AAPL: $11.42 cardinal (4.9% of AUM)

As of December 31, VWOB shares were priced astatine $67.45, up astir 7% implicit the past twelvemonth and underperforming the S&P 500, which is alternatively up adjacent to 17% successful the aforesaid period.

Metric

Value

AUM	$5.84 billion
Yield	6%
Price (as of marketplace adjacent Friday)	$67.45
1-year full return	13%

Investment strategy: Seeks to way the show of an scale composed of U.S. dollar-denominated authorities bonds from emerging marketplace countries, employing a sampling attack to replicate scale characteristics.
Portfolio composition: Primarily invests astatine slightest 80% of assets successful bonds included successful the people scale crossed divers emerging markets.
Fund structure: Operates arsenic a non-diversified ETF designed for cost-efficient entree to emerging markets authorities debt.

The Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF offers organization investors vulnerability to a wide handbasket of U.S. dollar-denominated authorities bonds from emerging marketplace issuers. The fund’s indexing strategy emphasizes debased costs and businesslike marketplace representation, supporting competitory output and full instrumentality potential. Its disciplined portfolio operation and absorption connected sovereign recognition supply diversification and income opportunities wrong the emerging markets fixed income space.