Beneficiaries of the move away from corporate debt include the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ: SHY) and the iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ: SHV). The $7.22 billion SHY has an effective duration of just 0.41 years while the $11.5 billion SHV has an effective duration of about 1.9 years. Duration measures a bond’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates.
“The iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF (SHV) has seen shares outstanding advance 7.7 percent so far this week, reaching the highest level since its creation in 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The fund absorbed nearly $500 million on Tuesday, it’s biggest daily inflow in about two years, the data show. A similar product, the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY), took in $235 million in the past two days,” according to Bloomberg.
For the week ended Dec. 6th, SHV saw inflows of $551.1 million, a total surpassed by just seven other ETFs. SHV was the top asset gatherer among bond ETFs over that period.
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