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SLQDISharesINDEX

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

$50.18+0.05% today
505152-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. The index is designed to reflect the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate debt.

Price & daily flows
50.850.550.250.18DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$45M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$22M of net buying over the past month, about 0.9% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -1.0% so far this year. At 0.060% a year, nothing comparable on our shelf runs cheaper.

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

$2.4Bassets under management
0.060%expense ratio · $6 per $10,000 a year
+$22Mnet flow, trailing month
213Kavg daily volume, 30 days
2605holdings · US-domiciled
2013listed October 14, 2013 · beta 0.05
The book at a glance
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CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1BANK OF AMERICA CORP0.20%
2BANK OF AMERICA CORP0.19%
3ABBVIE INC0.18%
4CVS HEALTH CORP0.16%
5AMAZON.COM INC0.16%
6BOEING CO0.15%
7GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC SR UNSECURED 10/27 VAR0.15%
8WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.15%
9Deutsche Telekom International Finance0.14%
10PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER COMPANY GUAR 05/28 4.450.14%
11WELLS FARGO & COMPANY(FX-FRN) MTN0.13%
12CIGNA GROUP0.13%
13MICROSOFT CORPORATION0.13%
14CITIGROUP INC0.13%
15WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.13%

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Performance
1 week+0.1%
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+$8M
1 month+$22M
3 months+$60M
YTD+$73M
1 year+$45M

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 0.2% of the book; the top ten carry 2%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 235 equally-weighted positions.

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

The case against SLQD

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat SLQD 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-3bp on fee · 7× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-2bp on fee · 16× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-2bp on fee · 10× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-2bp on fee · 8× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M-1bp on fee · 19× the assets · +$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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