What You Should Know:
- IndexIQ sponsors the fund.
- CPI has an expense ratio of 0.48%.
- The fund holds 16 securities.
- “Our research shows that a combination of assets, each with varying levels of sensitivity to inflation, may be a more effective way to hedge inflation risk,” Salvatore Bruno and Ludwig Chincarini wrote in a white paper titled “A Multi-Asset Approach to Inflation Hedging.”
- “We use a portfolio based approach to show that a core position in short-term Treasury bills or one-month CDs with satellite positions in longer term bonds, gold, oil and emerging market equities form the basis of a portfolio for an investor looking for a positive real return, while helping to minimize the downside risk with respect to inflation,” according to the white paper.
- The ETF includes a core holding in short-term Treasuries, along with satellite holdings in long-term Treasuries, real estate, U.S. large-cap equity, U.S. small-cap equity, international equity, British pound, Japanese yen, euro, oil and gold.
- Asset exposure through ETF holdings vary based on monthly rebalance.
- CPI is down 0.8% over the past month, down 1.2% over the past three months and up 2.8% over the last year.
The Latest News:
- U.S. consumer prices remained flat in April as cheap gas helped offset a rise in food, clothing and housing prices, reports Christopher S. Rugaber for the Seattle Times.
- The Labor Department announced that the Consumer Price Index was unchanged in April after a 0.3% rise in March.
- Excluding volatile food and gas, “core” prices increased 0.2% in April.
- Over the last year, the CPI has increased 2.3%, the smallest gain in over a year.
- The Federal Reserve’s inflation target is 2%.
- “We see little in the way of … significant inflation pressures,” Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, said in the article.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.