"Xtrackers II Germany Government Bond 1-3 UCITS ETF 1D" is an exchange-traded investment fund (ETF). It refers to the Markit iBoxx Euro Germany 1-3 Index. This index reflects the development of securities . The ETF replicates its index using physical replication with sampling, so it contains the most important securities of its reference index. The ETF's earnings are distributed to the investors. The fund company Xtrackers claims a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.15% per year. The yearly average divergence from the index performance (Tracking Difference) since 2011 was 0.17% per year. Therefore, the ETF was slightly more expensive than the TER suggests.