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JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF

$46.37+0.44% today
464852-WK

As a matter of non-fundamental policy, the fund will ordinarily invest at least 80% of its assets in bonds. The fund's average weighted maturity will ordinarily range between five and twenty years. The balance of the fund's assets are not required to meet any minimum quality rating although the fund will not, under normal circumstances, invest more than 30% of its assets in below investment grade securities (or the unrated equivalent).

Price & daily flows
47.747.146.546.37DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$7.4B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$672M of net buying over the past month, about 4.7% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -2.0% so far this year. At 0.40% a year it is not the cheapest way in — XLE runs the same ground at 0.09%.

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

$14.4Bassets under management
0.40%expense ratio · $40 per $10,000 a year
+$672Mnet flow, trailing month
1.7Mavg daily volume, 30 days
2325holdings · US-domiciled
2019listed January 26, 2019 · beta 0.12
Sector weights
Energy97.3%
Securitized47.18%
Other45.63%
Corporate27.71%
Cash12.17%
Government10.7%
Communication Services2.7%
Loans0.39%
Agency0.18%
Finance0.17%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
Other43.23%
United States42.3%
Cayman Islands12.39%
Thailand4.91%
United Kingdom0.93%
Switzerland0.37%
Canada0.34%
Ireland0.23%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.4%
1 month-0.5%
3 months-0.1%
6 months-3.2%
YTD-2.0%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$156M
1 month+$672M
3 months+$2.6B
YTD+$5.4B
1 year+$7.4B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
4%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
4%realized volatility, 1 year
-4.3%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-3.7%where it sits vs. that peak today

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

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
1.5Mshares traded
The case against JCPB

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat JCPB 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-37bp on fee · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-36bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-36bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-36bp on fee · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M-35bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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