Capital World Bond Fund
Capital World Bond Fund · Series S000009240 · 21 share classes
data updated 2026-08-10
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The funds investment objective is to provide you, over the long term, with a high level of total return consistent with prudent investment management. Total return comprises the income generated by the fund and the changes in the market value of the funds investments.
The fund seeks high total return by investing at least 80% of assets in global debt securities across investment grades and up to 25% in high-yield bonds, with exposure to developing countries and multiple currencies; returns derive from interest income, market value changes, and currency fluctuations. A team of portfolio managers oversees separate segments, selecting securities the adviser judges to offer attractive long-term value and selling when that case weakens. Because performance depends on the managers' security selection decisions, results will diverge from any benchmark.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| CWBFX | 0.98% |
| RCWAX | 1.58% |
| RCWBX | 1.58% |
| RCWCX | 1.13% |
| RCWEX | 0.83% |
| RCWFX | 0.54% |
| CWBCX | 1.72% |
| WBFFX | 1.03% |
| CCWAX | 0.99% |
| CCWCX | 1.74% |
| CCWEX | 1.13% |
| CCWFX | 1.08% |
| BFWFX | 0.59% |
| RCWGX | 0.48% |
| RCEBX | 1.28% |
| RCWHX | 0.64% |
| WFBFX | 0.48% |
| TWCBX | 1.01% |
| TWCWX | 0.96% |
| FCWBX | 0.63% |
| FWBCX | 0.53% |
Portfolio turnover 122.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1
| Bonds | 79.04% |
| Securitized | 13.93% |
| Cash & short-term | 9.11% |
| Loans | 0.13% |
| Stocks | 0.03% |
| Derivatives | -0.60% |
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: UNITED STATES TREASURY, UNIFORM MBS ×4, CZECH REPUBLIC, JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF), COLOMBIA (REPUBLIC OF)
Largest exited: MIZUHO BANK LTD/NEW YORK NY, BRAZIL FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNMENT), OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORP LTD, UNIFORM MBS, FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF), CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNMENT), GINNIE MAE II POOL
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026
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Mar 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-03-31
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 86.4% |
| Floating rate | 13.6% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 3.1% |
| 1-3y | 12.0% |
| 3-5y | 17.2% |
| 5-10y | 31.8% |
| 10y+ | 35.9% |
These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q1
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying a small fraction as much.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 77% |
| Credit spreads | 23% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +1.77 yr |
| High yield | +0.05 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. This filer signs its rate and credit disclosures differently; the direction shown follows its interest-rate filing, and a negative reading is the least-supported figure here.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.82 yr | 13% |
| 5 yr | 1.99 yr | 32% |
| 10 yr | 2.17 yr | 35% |
| 30 yr | 1.29 yr | 21% |
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.26 yr | 14% |
| 5 yr | 0.53 yr | 29% |
| 10 yr | 0.78 yr | 43% |
| 30 yr | 0.25 yr | 14% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
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| 3 mo | +0.01 | +0.01 | +0.01 | $8.0k | $5.1k |
| 1 yr | +0.82 | +0.18 | +0.07 | $179.1k | $73.0k |
| 5 yr | +1.99 | +0.62 | -0.10 | $610.3k | -$94.7k |
| 10 yr | +2.17 | +0.73 | +0.06 | $713.0k | $54.6k |
| 30 yr | +1.29 | +0.23 | +0.01 | $227.4k | $14.5k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 6.28 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL CASH FUND | 9.11% | $892.91M | — |
| — | UNITED STATES TREASURY3.63% · due 2027-08-31 | 1.80% | $176.02M | — |
| — | UNITED STATES TREASURY3.88% · due 2030-06-30 | 1.65% | $162.04M | — |
| — | PETROLEOS MEXICANOS6.84% · due 2030-01-23 | 1.62% | $159.11M | — |
| — | KOREA (REPUBLIC OF)3.25% · due 2035-12-10 | 1.46% | $143.22M | — |
| — | UNITED STATES TREASURY4.13% · due 2036-02-15 | 1.26% | $123.80M | — |
| — | UNIFORM MBS3.50% · due 2056-04-01 | 1.00% | $97.99M | — |
| — | PERU (REPUBLIC OF)7.60% · due 2039-08-12 | 0.98% | $95.70M | — |
| — | JAPAN (GOVERNMENT OF)0.10% · due 2028-09-20 | 0.82% | $79.96M | — |
| — | EUROPEAN UNION3.38% · due 2035-12-12 | 0.81% | $79.85M | — |
Top 10 positions are 20.51% of net assets, top 25 29.59%, across 820 issuers.
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