iShares Trust iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

IGSB tracks a market-value-weighted index of US dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate debt with 1-5 years remaining in maturity.

Despite recent Fed rate cuts, a higher interest rate environment persists, making short/intermediate duration corporate credit like iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF attractive for yield without excessive interest rate risk. The IGSB ETF offers exposure to U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds maturing in 1–5 years, providing a 4.56% yield with reduced interest rate risk. With a low 0.04% expense ratio and a diversified portfolio focused on financial institutions, IGSB stands out among short-term corporate bond ETFs.

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ASML Hld

Broadcom

Campbell Soup

Salesforce

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National Fuel Gas

Nestle SA

Paramount Global

Petroleo Brasileiro

Rush Enterprises

Shell PLC

Schlumberger

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TotalEnergies SE

West Pharmaceutical Services

Barron's Mid-Year 2024 Pro Picks revealed by panelists for potential investment opportunities. Barron's interviews of eleven financial industry Roundtable-pros tapped 48 predictions. Twelve non-ADR foreign stocks and six funds were dropped by YCharts screens, and six selections paid no dividends, leaving 24 in the final pool. The Barron's list tracked by YCharts as of 7/17/24 projected ten top analyst-estimated net gains from WST, ASML, PBR, RUSHA & topped by SLB ranging 19.46%-35.09%.

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VettaFi hosted and moderated 79 webcasts and livecasts in the first half of 2024. Approximately 18,000 advisors joined us to learn from ETF and mutual fund industry experts on a range of equity, fixed income, commodities, and alternatives topics.

What Advisors Told VettaFi in First Half

iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

The U.S. Federal Reserve plans to slow its quantitative tightening program, indicating a potential interest rate pivot. However, the interest rate environment remains uncertain. The iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF has a shorter duration and lower credit quality risk compared to the iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF. The market outlook suggests ongoing interest rate uncertainty, making IGSB a more suitable choice for reducing duration.

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Deere & Company

Everest Group Ltd

Diamondback Energy

Global Payments

Oracle

Oshkosh

Raytheon Technologies

Wintrust Financial

Barron's First New-Year Roundtable, published 1/11/24, listed 8 stocks of note for 2024. The follow-up article published 1/22/24 mentioned 27 more and included a buy-recommendation from Andrew Bary for BP.

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iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF is a fixed income exchange traded fund. The vehicle focuses on corporate investment grade bonds with an overall low duration of 2.5 years. The market is pricing a risk-on environment with continued growth and low unemployment, leading to extremely low BBB bond credit spreads.

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Canadian Natural Resources

Intel

RELX

Barron's First New-Year Roundtable, published 1/11/24, listed 8 stocks of note for 2024. The follow-up article published 1/22/24 mentioned 27 more and included a buy-recommendation from Andrew Bary for BP. Barron's interviews of eleven financial-industry Roundtable-pros over those two-weeks tapped 35 predictions along-with the BP-feature. Four funds were missed by YCharts screen of active-stocks. Seven-selections paid no-dividends, leaving 23 in-the-pool. The combined Barron's two-part list tracked-by YCharts as of 2/8/24 projected ten-top analyst-estimated net-gains from ORCL, INTC RTX, GPN, DE, OSK, WTFC, FANG, BP & topped-by EG ranging 6.0%-27.58%.

Barron's Round Table New-Year 2024 Dividend Dogs

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While 2023 was the year of Fed rate hikes, the fixed income market is expecting 2024 to be the year of rate cuts. At the December 2023 meeting, the Federal Reserve's own guidance was for three 25 basis point reductions in 2024.

Advisors More Conservative About Rate Cuts

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Wall Street witnessed an upbeat Q4 due to moderation in inflationary pressures, the likelihood of Fed rate cuts in 2024 and decent corporate earnings.

ETF Asset Report of Q4

November to mid-December has been a great time for the capital markets. iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF has lagged its brethren in terms of performance, thanks to its low duration. We examine the setup and tell you why Treasury Bills may be your best bet relative to the IGSB ETF.

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Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund

During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended October 18, 2023, investors were overall net sellers of fund assets for the fourth week in five, removing a net $106.3 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $2.2 billion in weekly net inflows, the third straight week of attracting new capital.

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Largest Weekly Outflow Since June 11, 2008 - Led By Money Market Funds (-$97.5 Billion)

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During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended October 4, 2023, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the first week in three, adding a net $32.9 billion. The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Total Return Index logged its third straight weekly loss. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $4.7 billion in weekly net inflows, marking the first weekly inflow in three.

U.S. Weekly Fund-Flows Insight Report: Taxable Fixed Income Funds Top Last Week's 2023 Outflow Record

SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF

Advisors have choices to face with their fixed income allocation. Should they take on credit risk to be rewarded with a high level of income?

Chart of Week: Advisors Prefer Short-Term High-Quality Bonds

The iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF seeks to track an index of short-term investment-grade corporate bonds. The fund has a duration of 2.57 years and a collateral weighted average maturity of 2.96 years. Although Banking is the largest sectoral allocation, the probability of default is mitigated by the fund's granular build, with larger than 1% exposure only allocated to systemically important banks.

IGSB: Investment Grade Corporate Bonds, Attractive Risk/Reward Proposition

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For many, social security isn't enough to fund their retirement needs. Bonds can help produce another income stream.

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iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

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Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund

Investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in a row, injecting a net $9.6 billion for the LSEG Lipper fund-flows week ended Wednesday, September 6. Equity ETFs witnessed net outflows for the second week in three, handing back a little more than $1.4 billion for the most recent fund flows week. For the first week in three, taxable fixed income ETFs experienced net outflows, handing back $1.1 billion this week.

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Ameren

AstraZeneca

Biogen

CME Group

CNH Industrial NV

Genuine Parts

Intercontinental Exchange

Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA

Mueller Industries

Siemens AG

Sylvamo Corp

TEGNA

Target

Textron

Barron's Mid-Year Roundtable, Published July 17, listed 40 stocks of note for 2023; 38 of those were unduplicated US publicly-listed companies, of-which YCharts reported 25 as paying dividends. Barron's interviews with their ten financial-industry Roundtable pros tapped human intelligence (HI) to make predictions. Unfortunately, the YCharts screener employed to report current data, dropped seven funds off the list. Nevertheless, the Watchlist tracked by YCharts as of 7/19/23 projected ten top analyst-estimated net gains from ICE, PARA, TXT, AZN, MLI, BIIB, SIEGY, CHNI, TGNA, & topped by SLVM, ranging from 15.53%-31.31%.

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With the Fixed Income Symposium taking place on Monday, July 24, the VettaFi Voices gathered at the water cooler to discuss the current state of fixed income markets.

VettaFi Voices On: The State of Fixed Income

Lower CDS values and a more transparent interest rate cycle outlook lend the iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF the necessary latitude to outperform expectations. The ETF's exposure to cyclical sectors and high-risk credit can be advantageous if key bond market metrics resume their trajectory. In our view, the Fed's pivot will be delayed. Nevertheless, inflation stability provides much to cheer about for corporate bond investors.

IGSB: Salient Risk-Return Metrics Are Starting To Align (Rating Upgrade)

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Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the sixth week in seven, adding a net of $22.4 billion. Money market funds, taxable-bond funds, and tax-exempt bond funds attracted new capital, while equity funds suffered outflows. U.S. broad-based equity indices reported positive returns, with the Russell 2000 experiencing its highest weekly return since May 20, 2020.

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Conventional Investment Grade Funds Attract Largest Weekly Inflow Of 2023

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As of year-end 2022, U.S. insurance companies invested $37 billion in ETFs. This represented only a fraction of the $6.5 trillion in U.S. ETF assets under management and the $7.9 trillion in invested assets of U.S. insurance companies, according to a just-released report from S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Insurers Own Large Stakes in Fixed Income ETFs

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Kroger

Southern Company

Some sectors fare better than others when inflation is high. Physical assets such as gold and real estate often hold their relative value when dollars don't.

You Can't Control Inflation, But You Can Control What You Do About It

IGSB invests in short-term investment grade corporate bonds. The fund has delivered lower total returns in the long run than other longer duration bond funds in the same category.

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Stock markets started 2023 with a bang, as major indexes posted solid gains in January. Some of the best ETFs and mutual funds jumped.

Stocks Are Off To Stellar Start This Year; Can It Continue?

Despite its "best-in-class" allocation, the iShares Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF is facing an uphill battle as short-term corporate bond premiums remain adrift. It's unlikely that investors will opt for corporate bonds until monetary policies, inflation, the FX market, and credit spreads find calm.

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