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FLOTISharesINDEX

iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF

$50.970.00% today
515152-WK

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index, and the fund will invest at least 90% of its assets in fixed income securities of the types included in the underlying index that BFA believes will help the fund track the underlying index.

Price & daily flows
51.051.050.950.97DAILY NET FLOWJul 20Jul 29Aug 10Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1M SHOWN · NET +$505M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$505M of net buying over the past month, about 4.8% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned +0.2% so far this year. At 0.15% a year it is not the cheapest way in — IEFA runs the same ground at 0.07%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$10.6Bassets under management
0.15%expense ratio · $15 per $10,000 a year
+$505Mnet flow, trailing month
1.9Mavg daily volume, 30 days
354holdings · US-domiciled
2011listed June 13, 2011 · beta 0.02
The book at a glance
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CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION A MTN1.11%
2INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT0.99%
3EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION A MTN0.95%
4INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP MTN0.91%
5INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT0.86%
6INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT0.85%
7INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT0.81%
8INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT MTN0.80%
9INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MTN0.76%
10INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MTN0.75%
11KOMMUNALB VRN 03/03/280.74%
12INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MTN0.73%
13INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK0.73%
14INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MTN0.72%
15EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION A MTN0.72%

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Sector weights
Banking47.7%
Supranational20.86%
Consumer Cyclical9.76%
Insurance5.6%
Owned No Guarantee5.5%
Capital Goods2.94%
Consumer Non-Cyclical2.59%
Electric1%
Technology0.9%
Energy0.59%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States35.76%
Supranational20.86%
Australia7.95%
Canada6.68%
United Kingdom5.62%
Japan3.41%
Netherlands3.17%
Germany3.01%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.1%
1 month-0.0%
3 months-0.0%
6 months+0.0%
YTD+0.2%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$87M
1 month+$505M
3 months+$1.3B
YTD+$1.6B
1 year+$1.5B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
1%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
1%realized volatility, 1 year
-0.7%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-0.2%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 1.1% of the book; the top ten carry 9%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 177 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

The case against FLOT

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat FLOT on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16B+$288M-12bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-11bp on fee · 4× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-10bp on fee · 12× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.7B+$104M-11bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$104M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-11bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
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