An old book once taught meIf you have ever read the book "A successful investors letters to his son" then you know one of the key things he does is buy into Short Term bonds when the market looks to decline.
We cannot time the market perfectly but putting this out there one of the better short term note products on the mar
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About iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
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Inception date
Jan 5, 2007
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
IGSBs mostly vanilla portfolio of short-term, investment-grade corporate debt is hugely popular with investors. The fund holds longer-dated bonds than our benchmark and most competitors, increasing both yield and interest rate risk. Still, it does a great job of representing this expanded short-term bond space. IGSB typically favors higher-quality bonds, usually resulting in a fund with lower credit risk than our benchmark. Its huge asset base ranks it among the top fixed income ETFs by AUM. The funds popularity extends to the trading floorinvestors large and small can access IGSB efficiently. Prior to August 1, 2018, IGSB tracked the Bloomberg Barclays US 1-3 Year Credit Bond Index.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Corporate
Stock breakdown by region
Top 10 holdings
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