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iShares J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF

$43.27+0.63% today
404352-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. The index tracks the performance of local currency-denominated sovereign bond markets of emerging market countries. The fund is non-diversified.

Price & daily flows
42.741.841.043.27DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$304M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money is leaving — −$42M walked out over the past month, about 5.8% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned +4.0% so far this year. At 0.30% a year it is not the cheapest way in — TLT runs the same ground at 0.15%.

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

$720Massets under management
0.30%expense ratio · $30 per $10,000 a year
−$42Mnet flow, trailing month
128Kavg daily volume, 30 days
362holdings · US-domiciled
2011listed October 17, 2011 · beta 0.31
The book at a glance
1.4%1.3%1.3%1.2%1.1%1.1%1.1%1.0%0.9%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.8%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.5%

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1URUGUAY (ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF)1.36%
2DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) RegS1.34%
3SERBIA (REPUBLIC OF)1.34%
4TURKEY (REPUBLIC OF)1.17%
5DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) RegS1.13%
6URUGUAY (ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF)1.11%
7URUGUAY (ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF)1.08%
8SERBIA (REPUBLIC OF)0.97%
9TURKEY (REPUBLIC OF)0.87%
10SERBIA (REPUBLIC OF)0.85%
11DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) RegS0.80%
12Serbia Treasury Bonds0.79%
13DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (GOVERNMENT) RegS0.75%
14BRAZIL FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF (GOV0.74%
15CHILE (REPUBLIC OF)0.70%

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Sector weights
Treasuries99.19%
Cash and/or Derivatives0.74%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
China15.03%
India8.7%
Mexico6.12%
Malaysia5.38%
Indonesia5.17%
Poland4.85%
Thailand4.82%
Brazil4.53%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.7%
1 month+2.3%
3 months+4.0%
6 months+1.0%
YTD+4.0%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week−$945K
1 month−$42M
3 months−$33M
YTD+$57M
1 year+$304M

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
5%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
7%realized volatility, 1 year
-6.0%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
at peakwhere it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 1.4% of the book; the top ten carry 11%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 174 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
39Kshares traded
The case against LEMB

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat LEMB 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-27bp on fee · 22× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-26bp on fee · 54× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-26bp on fee · 33× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-26bp on fee · 26× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M-25bp on fee · 64× the assets · +$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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