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Intermediate Term Bond Fund
Intermediate term bond fund should be your primarily choice for income diversification. It has a lower risk than long term bond fund. It also has a higher yield than short term bond fund. You can invest in intermediate-term bond fund through mutual fund, exchange traded fund, or closed end fund.The intermediate term bond fund uses its assets to purchase investment grade corporate bonds, government bonds (U.S. Treasury) or other U.S. fixed income debts. These debts typically have durations of 4 to 7 years. As mentioned before, they are less sensitive to interest rates, therefore less volatile than long duration bonds.
Top Performer ETFs
These top performer ETFs are sorted based on its 1 year return (up to May 2013). You can find the fund review from this article. Other fund information can be found below such as expense ratio, Morningstar rating, fund’s NAV, managers, fund’s holdings, yield, etc.
Best performing intermediate term bond ETFs May 2013 are:
- PIMCO Total Return ETF (BOND)
- Guggenheim BulletShares 2020 Corporate Bond (BSCK)
- iShares Financials Sector Bond (MONY)
- Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF (VCIT)
- Guggenheim BulletShares 2019 Corp Bond (BSCJ)
- PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index ETF (CORP)
- Guggenheim BulletShares 2017 Corporate Bond (BSCH)
- iShares Barclays Credit Bond (CFT)
- Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond ETF (BIV)
- SPDR Barclays Cap Intermediate Term Corporate Bond (ITR)