iShares TIPS Bond ETF
TIP · Exchange-traded fund · Bonds
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What this fund holds
iShares TIPS Bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund. It holds uS Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, whose principal adjusts with the official inflation measure.
1M price history
What this fund owns
US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, whose principal adjusts with the official inflation measure.
Held by investors who want the payout to keep pace with inflation rather than be eaten by it.
Fund profile
Classification, not a provider estimate- Asset class
- Fixed income (bonds)
- Category
- Inflation-protected bonds
- Typical maturity
- Intermediate (roughly 5–10 years)
- Credit quality
- US government
- Interest-rate sensitivity
- Moderate
- Credit risk
- Very low
Expense ratio, yield to maturity and average duration in years are not available from Scope's current data provider for bond funds, so they are shown as unavailable rather than estimated.
How interest rates affect it
Bond prices and interest rates generally move in opposite directions. When market interest rates rise, existing bond prices generally fall, and when rates fall, existing bond prices generally rise. Longer-duration bonds are typically more sensitive to interest-rate changes.
This fund's interest-rate sensitivity is moderate, and its credit risk is very low. Those are two separate risks: a fund can carry a lot of one and almost none of the other.
What can go wrong
- Interest-rate risk: moderate. Inflation protection does not remove price movement when real rates change.
- If inflation comes in lower than expected, these can lag ordinary Treasuries.
- Credit risk is very low — the issuer is the US government.
Bond ETFs can fall in value and have done so. They are usually steadier than shares, which is not the same as safe.
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