iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF vs Vanguard Sht-Term Inflation-Protected Sec Idx ETF — how do they compare? iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF trades at $83.68, while Vanguard Sht-Term Inflation-Protected Sec Idx ETF trades at $49.65. The key difference: Vanguard Sht-Term Inflation-Protected Sec Idx ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| TLT | VTIP | |
|---|---|---|
52-Week High | $92.06 | $50.75 |
52-Week Low | $83.02 | $49.39 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index, and it will invest at least 90% of its assets in US Treasury securities that the advisor believes will help the fund track the underlying index. The underlying index measures the performance of public obligations of the US Treasury that have a remaining maturity greater than or equal to twenty years.
Read more on TLT →The index is a market-capitalization-weighted index that includes all inflation-protected public obligations issued by the US Treasury with remaining maturities of less than 5 years. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the securities that make up the index, holding each security in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
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