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About iShares Government/Credit Bond ETF
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Inception date
Jan 5, 2007
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Synthetic
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Ordinary income
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
GBF excludes securitized debt from a broad-market allocation to investment-grade USD-denominated debt. The reweighting of the remainder of the US bond market pumps up GBFs exposure to Treasurys and corporate debt, which together make up over 80% of GBFs assets. The fund delivers near-perfect exposure to the broader market in terms of portfolio weighting, yield, credit rating, and duration. GBF excludes certain special issues such as targeted investor notes, state and local government series bonds and coupon issues that have been stripped from bonds. The underlying index is reconstituted monthly. GBF uses a representative sampling index strategy which purchases a subset of securities that matches the return and risk characteristics of the Underlying Index.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Government
Corporate
Stocks0.03%
Commercial Services0.01%
Energy Minerals0.01%
Finance0.01%
Bonds, Cash & Other99.97%
Government64.89%
Corporate33.91%
Municipal0.73%
Cash0.44%
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