IGSB News and Press, iShares Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 11/08/21

It feels as if the 'Santa Claus Rally' has started early this year. If history is of any indication, we're due for another ~4% over the next 8 weeks. Nonetheless, things are getting more and more bubbly, and the combination of Tapering, higher inflation, and higher rates is anything b...

The recent run higher in the Sharpe ratio for the Global Market Index finally reversed in October. Risk-adjusted performance has slipped, but GMI's rebound in October lifted it to a new record high. GMI is useful as a baseline to begin research on asset allocation and portfolio de...

The long-run risk premium forecast for the Global Market Index (GMI) rebounded in October, edging up to 6.1%, based on revised numbers through last month. The new estimate is calculated in terms of the projected return over the “risk-free” rate, according to a risk-based...

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IGSB) - $0.0670. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.10% as of Oct. 29. Payable Nov 05; for shareholders of record Nov 02; ex-div Nov 01. For further details see: iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distrib...

US real estate investment trusts (REITs) and stocks posted the strongest returns for the major asset classes in October - by wide margins. US REITs surged 7.7% last month, reversing September’s sharp decline. The recovery puts American property shares in the lead for 2021 with ...

October was a strong month for market returns as investors piled into three benchmark ETFs, but  shunned three others. The three exchange traded funds that attracted the most capital inflows during the month were the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:IVV), Invesco QQQ Trus...

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in a row, injecting a net $61.9 billion—the strongest weekly net inflows since May 26, 2021—for Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended October 2...

The investment community is overall net purchasers of fund assets on the week, including ETFs and conventional funds totaling $61.9B, according to the latest Refinitiv Lipper U.S. fund flow insight report. From an exchange traded fund vantage point, equity ETFs attracted $19.1B on t...

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in September for the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged, market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset classes (except cash). GMI’s 0.97 Sharpe ratio is close to the highest levels reached in recent history. ...

Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...