Short Term Bond ETFs
Exchange Traded Funds or ETFs are popular among active investors. With their low cost and liquidity, you can use ETFs to build your investment core assets. You can invest in bond, stock, or money market. There is variety of ETFs offered by ETF providers such as Vanguard, iShares, SPDR, etc.Short term bond ETFs are investing mainly in high grade corporate and government with short duration (1 to 3.5 years). These debt ETFs typically great for conservative investors or retiree, hence they are less sensitive to interest rates hikes. The funds do provide yield for income.
Top Bond ETFs
These top performer ETFs are sorted based on its 1 year to date performance in 2014 (up to May 2014). 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 short term bond ETFs 2014 are:
- AdvisorShares Newfleet Multi-Sector Income ETF
- iSharesBond Mar 2016 Corp ex-Fincls Term
- Vanguard Short-Term Corp Bd Idx ETF
- iShares 0-5 Year Invmt Grd Corp Bd
- Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
- SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corp Bd
- iShares Short Maturity Bond
- iShares Core Short-Term US Bond
- iSharesBond Mar 2016 Corporate Term
- iShares 1-3 Year Credit Bond
