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iShares Short Maturity Bond ETF

$50.58+0.08% today
505152-WK

The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in a portfolio of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade fixed-income securities. Under normal circumstances, the effective duration of its portfolio is expected to be one year or less, as calculated by the management team. It is an actively managed exchange-traded fund ("ETF") that does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index.

Price & daily flows
51.250.950.650.58DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$1.5B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$81M of net buying over the past month, about 1.7% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -1.0% so far this year. At 0.25% a year it is not the cheapest way in — AGG runs the same ground at 0.03%.

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

$4.9Bassets under management
0.25%expense ratio · $25 per $10,000 a year
+$81Mnet flow, trailing month
411Kavg daily volume, 30 days
1006holdings · US-domiciled
2013listed September 24, 2013 · beta 0.03
The book at a glance
3.8%3.3%2.8%1.8%1.4%1.3%0.9%0.7%0.5%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.4%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.2%0.2%

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1TREASURY NOTE3.75%
2TREASURY NOTE3.32%
3TREASURY NOTE2.82%
4TREASURY NOTE1.84%
5TREASURY NOTE1.42%
6TREASURY NOTE1.32%
7TREASURY NOTE0.92%
8TREASURY NOTE0.69%
9TREASURY NOTE0.47%
10ECMC_26-2 A 144A0.44%
11CITIGROUP INC (FXD-FRN)0.43%
12APPLOVIN CORP0.42%
13VIPER ENERGY PARTNERS LLC0.41%
14PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY0.40%
15ORACLE CORPORATION0.38%

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Sector weights
Treasury29.12%
Industrial18.76%
ABS14.56%
Financial Institutions12.84%
CMBS8.86%
CMO7.32%
Utility3.64%
Cash and/or Derivatives1.51%
Agency1.18%
Sovereign0.61%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States87.21%
United Kingdom3.72%
Australia1.33%
Ireland0.93%
Cayman Islands0.69%
Switzerland0.6%
Germany0.58%
Canada0.47%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.2%
1 month+0.1%
3 months-0.1%
6 months-1.4%
YTD-1.0%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$5M
1 month+$81M
3 months+$468M
YTD+$1.2B
1 year+$1.5B

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)
2%realized volatility, 1 year
-1.9%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.5%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 12.0% of the book; the top ten carry 29%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 22 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
461Kshares traded
The case against NEAR

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat NEAR 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-22bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-21bp on fee · 8× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-21bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-21bp on fee · 4× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M-20bp on fee · 9× the assets · +$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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