{"id":63160,"date":"2017-05-22T00:39:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/blackrock-launches-pair-of-dollar-bond-etfs-for-european-range\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T00:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:39:29","slug":"blackrock-launches-pair-of-dollar-bond-etfs-for-european-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/blackrock-launches-pair-of-dollar-bond-etfs-for-european-range\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock launches pair of Dollar bond ETFs for European range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>Thirst for granularity driven by investors looking to be \u2018active with passive\u2019 <\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>BlackRock has launched two new fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs)<br \/>\nproviding investors with greater granularity in US bond exposures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iShares $ Intermediate Credit Bond UCITS ETF (ICBU)<\/strong> invests in a subset of US investment grade bonds, with maturity dates between one and 10 years. The fund provides exposure to a broad array of investment grade corporate, sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency bonds. The fund offers income generation potential relative to US treasuries with similar maturities. <\/p>\n<p><strong>iShares $ TIPS 0-5 UCITS ETF (TIP5)<\/strong> invests in short-term Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and aims to provide an inflation hedge with lower interest rate risk, while offering growth potential. The bonds included in the underlying index have a duration ranging between zero and five years and are US dollar denominated.<\/p>\n<p>The global bond ETF industry achieved its best quarter on record with $44.5bn inflows in Q1 20171.<\/p>\n<p>BlackRock now offers 86 bond ETFs in Europe, offering granular exposures across duration and risk levels. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual bond ETF media event in London last week, Brett Olson, Head of iShares<br \/>\nFixed Income EMEA at BlackRock, said; <em>\u201cOur aim is to empower investors when investing in the<br \/>\nbond markets, and more and more clients are coming to us with ideas for product launches. This thirst<br \/>\nfor granularity is symptomatic of a broader shift among asset allocators towards \u2018being active with<br \/>\npassive\u2019 to meet their desired goals. We expect bond ETFs to become more engrained as the tool<br \/>\ninvestors \u2013 from funds buyers to bond buyers \u2013 look to form part, or in many cases the basis, of their<br \/>\nbond allocations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Allen, European Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at BlackRock, said <em>\u201cBefore bond ETFs<br \/>\ncame along, cash bonds and derivatives were the main tools we had to translate our views into portfolio<br \/>\nallocation and generate alpha. As the selection and size of bond ETFs has grown, we now have an<br \/>\nadditional tool to consider to cost-effectively allocate to sectors. In addition, they are an invaluable<br \/>\nsource of daily information on where money\u2019s going, and a means of managing the short terms flows in<br \/>\nand out of our mutual funds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackRock has launched two new fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs)<br \/>\nproviding investors with greater granularity in US bond exposures, iShares $ Intermediate Credit Bond UCITS ETF (ICBU) and iShares $ TIPS 0-5 UCITS ETF (TIP5)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":63158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1856,1859,1718,1681,1651,1711,1437,1691,1776,2234,1952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}