ETF Spotlight on IQ Real Return ETF (NYSEArca: CPI), part of an ongoing series.
Assets: $40.7 million.
Objective: The IQ Real Return ETF tries to reflect the performance of the IQ Real Return Index, which provides a hedge against U.S. inflation rate by tracking the “real return” – the return above the rate of inflation represented by the Consumer Price Index.
Holdings: Top holdings include: iShares Barclays Short Treasury Bond Fund ETF (NYSEArca: SHV) 43.8%, SPDR Barclays Capital 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF (NYSEArca: BIL) 25.7%, SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: SPY) 10.3%, iShares Barclays 20 Year Treasury Bond Fund ETF (NYSEArca: TLT) 9.4% and PowerShares DB Gold Fund (NYSEArca: DGL) 9.2%.
What You Should Know:
- IndexIQ sponsors the fund.
- CPI has a 0.66% expense ratio.
- The fund has nine ETF holdings.
- According to IndexIQ, the ETF offers the “ability to invests across up to 10 areas of inflation sensitive assets with a cash core” and a “low volatility alternative to TIPs and short duration fixed income.”
- “Core is Short Term Treasuries with satellite allocations to oil, real estate, gold, equities and currencies (with no more than 10% to each),” according to the provider.
- CPI has a 0.02% dividend yield.
- The ETF is flat over the past month, up 1.0% over the last three months and up 1.2% year-to-date.
- The fund is 1.2% above its 200-day exponential moving average.
The Latest News:
- Consumer price index was unchanged in July, Financial Times reports.
- Core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices, only inched up 0.1%, below the 0.2% expectations.
- “Inflation meanwhile fell from 1.7 per cent in June to 1.4 per cent [over the previous year], pointing to a ‘goldilocks’ combination of accelerating economic growth and falling price pressures,” Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit said in the article.
- The Federal Open Market Committee stated Aug. 1 that it will “provide additional accommodation as needed” to help generate jobs, Bloomberg reports.
- “I don’t think inflation is a problem at this stage, and I’m not worried about additional QE causing an inflation surge,” Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ, said in the Bloomberg article. “I am not a big buyer of the idea that QE putting out too many dollars” causes prices to jump.
IQ Real Return ETF
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Max Chen contributed to this article.