iShares Short-Term Price, Forecast, Insider, Ratings, Fundamentals & Signals

Barron's First New-Year Roundtable, published 1/11/24, listed 8 stocks of note for 2024. The follow-up article published 1/22/24 mentioned 27 more and included a buy-recommendation from Andrew Bary for BP.

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF is a fixed income exchange traded fund. The vehicle focuses on corporate investment grade bonds with an overall low duration of 2.5 years. The market is pricing a risk-on environment with continued growth and low unemployment, leading to extremely low BBB bond credit spreads.

Barron's First New-Year Roundtable, published 1/11/24, listed 8 stocks of note for 2024. The follow-up article published 1/22/24 mentioned 27 more and included a buy-recommendation from Andrew Bary for BP. Barron's interviews of eleven financial-industry Roundtable-pros over those two-weeks tapped 35 predictions along-with the BP-feature. Four funds were missed by YCharts screen of active-stocks. Seven-selections paid no-dividends, leaving 23 in-the-pool. The combined Barron's two-part list tracked-by YCharts as of 2/8/24 projected ten-top analyst-estimated net-gains from ORCL, INTC RTX, GPN, DE, OSK, WTFC, FANG, BP & topped-by EG ranging 6.0%-27.58%.

Wall Street witnessed an upbeat Q4 due to moderation in inflationary pressures, the likelihood of Fed rate cuts in 2024 and decent corporate earnings.

November to mid-December has been a great time for the capital markets. iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF has lagged its brethren in terms of performance, thanks to its low duration. We examine the setup and tell you why Treasury Bills may be your best bet relative to the IGSB ETF.

During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended October 18, 2023, investors were overall net sellers of fund assets for the fourth week in five, removing a net $106.3 billion. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $2.2 billion in weekly net inflows, the third straight week of attracting new capital.

During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended October 4, 2023, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the first week in three, adding a net $32.9 billion. The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Total Return Index logged its third straight weekly loss. Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $4.7 billion in weekly net inflows, marking the first weekly inflow in three.

Advisors have choices to face with their fixed income allocation. Should they take on credit risk to be rewarded with a high level of income?

The iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF seeks to track an index of short-term investment-grade corporate bonds. The fund has a duration of 2.57 years and a collateral weighted average maturity of 2.96 years. Although Banking is the largest sectoral allocation, the probability of default is mitigated by the fund's granular build, with larger than 1% exposure only allocated to systemically important banks.

For many, social security isn't enough to fund their retirement needs. Bonds can help produce another income stream.