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QLTAISharesINDEX

iShares Aaa - A Rated Corporate Bond ETF

$46.65+0.63% today
464952-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 underlying index is a subset of the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Index, which measures the performance of the Aaa - A rated range of the fixed-rate, U.S. dollar-denominated taxable, corporate bond market.

Price & daily flows
48.147.546.846.65DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned -2.9% 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

$1.6Bassets under management
0.15%expense ratio · $15 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
172Kavg daily volume, 30 days
2970holdings · US-domiciled
2012listed February 13, 2012 · beta 0.15
The book at a glance
0.2%0.2%0.2%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES PTE0.17%
2ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES LLC0.16%
3ABBVIE INC0.16%
4PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES PTE0.15%
5ABBVIE INC0.14%
6WELLS FARGO & COMPANY MTN0.13%
7WELLS FARGO & COMPANY MTN0.13%
8COMCAST CORPORATION0.13%
9GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC/THE0.13%
10MICROSOFT CORPORATION0.13%
11WELLS FARGO & COMPANY MTN0.13%
12ABBVIE INC0.13%
13CITIGROUP INC0.12%
14WELLS FARGO & COMPANY MTN0.12%
15WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.12%

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Sector weights
Banking35.01%
Consumer Non-Cyclical15.52%
Technology9.19%
Electric7%
Consumer Cyclical6.62%
Energy4.45%
Capital Goods4.44%
Insurance4.3%
Communications3.98%
Transportation2.57%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States81.17%
United Kingdom4.93%
Japan3.49%
Canada3.33%
Australia2.02%
Belgium1.16%
Switzerland0.81%
Spain0.74%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.4%
1 month-0.7%
3 months-0.8%
6 months-3.9%
YTD-2.9%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month
3 months
YTD
1 year

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
5%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
5%realized volatility, 1 year
-5.5%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-4.8%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 0.3% of the book; the top ten carry 2%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 233 equally-weighted positions.

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

The case against QLTA

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat QLTA 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 · 10× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-11bp on fee · 24× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-10bp on fee · 79× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.7B+$104M-11bp on fee · 20× 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 · 14× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
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