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iShares Interest Rate Hedged Corporate Bond ETF

$92.46+0.23% today
919452-WK

The index is designed to minimize the interest-rate risk exposure of a portfolio composed of U.S. dollar-denominated, investment grade bonds, represented in the index by the underlying fund, by including a series of up to 10 interest rate swap contracts with different maturities. The fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in component securities and instruments in the index and/or bonds included in the underlying index of the underlying fund.

Price & daily flows
93.292.491.792.46DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN · NET +$51M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$37M of net buying over the past month, about 6.8% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -0.9% so far this year. At 0.23% 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

$540Massets under management
0.23%expense ratio · $23 per $10,000 a year
+$37Mnet flow, trailing month
46Kavg daily volume, 30 days
164holdings · US-domiciled
2014listed May 26, 2014 · beta 0.12
The book at a glance
93.2%

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1ISHARES IBOXX $ INV GRADE CORPORAT93.17%
2SWP: OIS 1.002000 07-DEC-20260.02%
3USD CASH0.59%
4SWP: OIS 3.795700 02-APR-2044 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
5SWP: OIS 3.671200 28-MAR-2054 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
6SWP: OIS 3.611700 02-APR-2054 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
7SWP: OIS 3.346200 10-SEP-2044 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
8SWP: OIS 3.954200 29-APR-2045 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
9SWP: OIS 3.757700 07-MAR-2039 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
10SWP: OIS 3.724200 11-MAR-2039 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
11SWP: OIS 3.987700 05-JUN-2033 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
12SWP: OIS 3.758700 29-APR-2035 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
13SWP: OIS 3.510200 28-DEC-2033 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
14SWP: OIS 3.786700 20-MAY-2054 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%
15SWP: OIS 4.139200 17-JUL-2036 SOF (LCH) - Swaps0.01%

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Sector weights
Financial Other93.17%
Cash and/or Derivatives6.83%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.1%
1 month-0.1%
3 months-0.8%
6 months-0.7%
YTD-0.9%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month+$37M
3 months+$37M
YTD−$145M
1 year+$46M

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
2%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
3%realized volatility, 1 year
-3.2%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.9%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 93.2% of the book; the top ten carry 109%. Spread across 180+ names, it behaves like roughly 2 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
37Kshares traded
The case against LQDH

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat LQDH 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-20bp on fee · 30× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-19bp on fee · 72× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-18bp on fee · 238× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.7B+$104M-19bp on fee · 61× the assets · +$104M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-19bp on fee · 43× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
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