Opinions
Daniel Straus
iShares Diversified Monthly Income ETF
XTR-T
COMMENT
Jan 13, 2017
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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Does iShares collect an MER from all the other ETFs held within XTR? He's asked Blackrock this and, no, they're not double-dipping. Generally speaking, there's no question that MERs of ETFs will continue to decrease because of of competition among ETF compnaies. It's amazing how far they've fallen just in the past few years.
The bond markets are impaired and will be for a while. Low interest rates are here to stay. Income focused ETFs with exposure to bonds will not return 4-5%. Are you getting return of capital or yield? Must look into the structure where the returns are coming from. Both are similar. Both ZMI and XTR give you exposure to diversified income. All fixed income has negative return after inflation.
For short term holding? An interesting ETF, because it is quite seasoned and has a significant amount of assets. Historically, its origins were income trusts. This is an ETF of ETF’s, so if you really look at its sub holdings and go into its true underlyings, it has asset classes from all around the world. A good, one-time ticket for putting cash to work where you want yield. Dividend yield of 5.3%.