iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

IGIB

Market cap $18.5B

Bond ETF inflows are running 60% ahead of last year's level, which was itself a record pace, a rise that a BlackRock executive described as "shocking" to CNBC. Elevated stock market volatility, a new Fed chair, and ongoing inflation fears are all part of the picture as investors in the market hunt for maximum "real yield.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is becoming tougher for Wall Street to forecast, with dramatically different views ​on where monetary policy is headed.

iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF and Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF offer broad diversification, with each holding more than 2,000 bonds Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF maintains a slight cost advantage with a 0.03% expense ratio versus 0.04% for the iShares fund Both funds generated nearly identical total returns over the last five years and currently offer trailing-12-month dividend yields of 4.75%

Lindsay Rosner, who runs multi-sector fixed income at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, went on CNBC this morning to translate

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On CNBC last week, Kate Rooney walked viewers through a number that should reframe how tech investors think about their portfolios.

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade."

The odds of rate hikes are rising as inflation stays hot. Traditional bond ETFs will struggle, but inflation-protected bond ETFs could thrive.

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade."

There is an old rule in lending that a name on the door is worth less than a claim on the cash. Bond investors who spent two years buying data-centre debt on the strength of the tenant rather than the structure are now relearning it.