NUSA will help provide investors with “enhanced yield potential relative to the short-term, taxable investment grade fixed income market with comparable risk, a diversified core allocation in an income portfolio and exchange-traded liquidity and transparency,” according to Nuveen.
Current sector allocations include corporate debt 50.2%, securitized debt 27.0% and U.S. Treasury 22.8%.
Credit quality breakdown includes 46.8% AAA-rated, 6.3% AA, 17.9% A and 29.0% BBB.
NUSA’s underlying index shows a 2.13% yield to worst and an effective duration of 2.88 years.
The new short-term, smart-beta ETF will also complement Nuveen’s recently launched ETF alternative to the benchmark Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, the NuShares Enhanced Yield U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: NUAG).
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