ISTB News and Press, iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF From 10/05/20

Long-term bond yields are at all-time lows. The duration of the U.S. bond market has never been higher. The yield pickup per year of duration risk has never been lower. Fed easing can't get much more intense than it is already. The return/risk tradeoff for long-term bonds ...

The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb Markets institutional European- and U.S.-listed ETF platforms. European-Listed ETFs Total traded volume More than EUR 31.1 billion was executed on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace in November. The proporti...

For the first week in 12, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $13.7 billion for Lipper's fund-flows week ended November 20, 2019. Once again, fund investors were net purchasers of taxable fixed income funds (+$12.4 b...

American pensions are in trouble. A Wilshire Consulting Report from 2017 shows that 97% of the 103 state pension funds that report actuarial values were underfunded. The "funded ratio" — that is, the percentage of liabilities (promised benefits) covered by current assets (funds av...

I sat down recently to review my portfolio's performance the last few years, especially compared to the S&P 500 ( SPY ). Now, beating the SPY is not really a goal of mine, either short-term or long-term. Rather, my five overarching goals are to build: A growing income stream , at ...

Introduction Actively managed funds have been a significant part of our history going back to our start in 1975. In fact, our first 11 mutual funds were actively managed. The numbers tell the story of how we've become one of the largest managers of actively managed funds in the worl...