IGSB News and Press, iShares Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 09/01/21

The winning streak for American shares rolled on in August. US stocks rose for a seventh straight month and posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes. US bonds also lost ground in August. The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index slipped 0.2%, the first monthly decline for the be...

Soros' 13F portfolio value increased from $5.33B to $5.93B this quarter. The number of positions increased from 229 to 257. Soros increased Amazon.com while reducing QuantumScape and dropping Baidu, Tencent Music Group, ViacomCBS, and Vipshop Holdings. Liberty Broadband at ~12% of...

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the 4th consecutive week, injecting a net $33.0 bln for Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended Aug. 18, 2021. Fund investors were net purchasers of equity funds (+$13.9 b...

Investors added $33B to ETFs and conventional funds in the week ending on Aug. 18, marking it the fourth week in a row that such assets increased. This week’s Refinitiv Lipper U.S. fund flow insight report outlined that market participants were net purchasers of equity funds ...

GMI’s 10-year Sharpe ratio (SR) edged up for a fifth straight month to 0.86, the highest since January 2020, based on a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. Profiling GMI through a drawdown lens also reflects an extended stretch of low risk. GMI is useful as a baseline...

The projected risk premium for the Global Market held steady in July at an annualized 6.0%, unchanged from the previous month. Despite the recent bounce, GMI’s trailing 10-year performance remains well below the previous 8%-plus peak. No one really knows what risk premia wi...

Most of the major asset classes continued to rise in July, led by US real estate investment trusts (REITs). US equities continued trending higher. The bull run also persisted for the Global Market Index (GMI) in July. For further details see: Major Asset Classes: July 20...

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IGSB) - $0.6780. 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.87% as of July 29. Payable Aug 06; for shareholders of record Aug 03; ex-div Aug 02. For further details see: iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distrib...

During Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended July 28, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in seven, pumping in $29.0 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $9.4 billion in weekly n...

For the first time in seven weeks, market participants were overall net buyers of fund assets, including both conventional funds and exchange traded funds totaling $29B as presented in the latest Refinitiv Lipper U.S. fund flow insight report for the week of July 28, 2021. In dissecting the d...