Empower Bond Index Fund
U.S. bond index fund · tracks Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
As of its 2026 Q2 report, Empower Bond Index Fund held 2,703 positions with $5.18B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 11.4% of the fund. The MXBIX share class costs 0.49% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, MXBIX returned 4.6%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 133 new positions and exited 134.
The Fund seeks investment results that track the total return of the debt securities that comprise the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the Benchmark Index).
The fund tracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index using sampling techniques to hold a limited number of securities expected to replicate the index's performance across sector, yield, duration, credit quality, and spread. The index comprises over 12,000 investment-grade debt securities including corporates, government bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. Because the fund samples rather than holds all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the index. Day-to-day portfolio management is delegated to Franklin Advisers, Inc. and Franklin Advisory Services, LLC, with oversight by the adviser Empower Capital Management, LLC.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 4.63% · due 2055-11-15 | 1.57% | $81.21M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.50% · due 2031-02-28 | 1.51% | $78.40M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 1.63% · due 2029-08-15 | 1.29% | $66.80M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 0.88% · due 2030-11-15 | 1.11% | $57.33M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.38% · due 2033-05-15 | 1.10% | $57.20M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 4.13% · due 2029-06-15 | 1.08% | $56.19M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 4.00% · due 2032-07-31 | 1.00% | $51.58M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 3.88% · due 2029-12-31 | 0.94% | $48.52M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 0.50% · due 2027-06-30 | 0.93% | $47.90M | — |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 0.63% · due 2030-05-15 | 0.84% | $43.55M | — |
The 200 largest of 2,703 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Bonds | 72.31% |
| Securitized | 26.37% |
| Cash & short-term | 4.67% |
By sector
- Government
- 47.7%
- Securitized
- 23.6%
- Other
- 5.0%
- Financials
- 4.8%
- 12 other sectors
- 18.9%
- Government
- 47.7%
- Securitized
- 23.6%
- Other
- 5.0%
- Financials
- 4.8%
- Cash
- 4.5%
- Utilities
- 2.4%
- International
- 2.1%
- Health Care
- 2.0%
- Information Technology
- 1.7%
- Communication Services
- 1.3%
- Industrials
- 1.3%
- Consumer Staples
- 1.2%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 0.7%
- Energy
- 0.7%
- Real Estate
- 0.6%
- Materials
- 0.3%
How it has done
MXBIX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 3.29%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 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.
The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.49% | +4.61% | +10.64% | -3.17% | -5.31% | |
| 0.13% | +5.00% | +11.77% | -1.69% | -5.17% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 1.48pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.30pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
Empower Bond Index Fund is a U.S. bond index fund that tracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Index (passive)
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.13% – 0.49%· MXBIX 0.49%
- Portfolio turnover
- 21.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
133 new· the largest 6
134 exited· the largest 4
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
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 | 97.4% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 2.0% |
| Floating rate | 0.6% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 4.9% |
| 1-3y | 16.8% |
| 3-5y | 16.9% |
| 5-10y | 19.1% |
| 10y+ | 42.2% |
| Unknown | 0.0% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying about half 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 | 65% |
| Credit spreads | 35% |
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 | +2.78 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.00 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.42 yr | 8% |
| 5 yr | 1.58 yr | 30% |
| 10 yr | 2.01 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.22 yr | 23% |
| 3 mo | 0.00 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.13 yr | 5% |
| 5 yr | 0.88 yr | 32% |
| 10 yr | 1.35 yr | 48% |
| 30 yr | 0.43 yr | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $1.8k | $0 |
| 1 yr | +0.42 | +0.13 | +0.00 | $65.0k | $0 |
| 5 yr | +1.58 | +0.88 | +0.00 | $453.9k | $0 |
| 10 yr | +2.01 | +1.35 | +0.00 | $696.8k | $0 |
| 30 yr | +1.22 | +0.43 | +0.00 | $220.0k | $0 |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
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