iShares Inflation Hedged Corporate Bond ETF
$25.20−0.18 (−0.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.33%
- Fund size
- $69M
- 1Y return
- −1.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.78%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.46
- 52W range
The ETF.net LQDI Grade
Score 47 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.CScore 42Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 64Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 22Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on LQDI
CInvestment-grade corporate credit with an inflation swap overlay bolted on top. One ticker for holding company bonds while dialing down sensitivity to rising consumer prices, a job plain credit funds don't take on.
The Fund seeks to track an index intended to reduce inflation risk for a portfolio of U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds. It primarily uses an underlying corporate-bond fund and inflation swaps to implement that exposure.
Why people hold it
- The build is refreshingly legible: own a core investment-grade corporate bond fund, then layer inflation swaps on top to reduce inflation risk while keeping the credit exposure intact.ishares.com
- Rare shelf space. Cohort leaders like VCIT, USIG and SPIB deliver plain corporate credit for a few basis points; none of them carry an inflation overlay. This one is solving a different problem.
- Not an experiment: trading since 2018, tracking a rules-based BlackRock inflation-hedged corporate index, and paying distributions monthly.
Worth knowing
- The overlay costs. The fund charges 0.33% a year versus a cohort median near 0.19%, so you're paying up for the swap machinery, not for the bonds.
- It hedges inflation, not rates or credit. Duration and spread moves still drive it, and the swaps mean it's registered as a commodity pool rather than a plain bond fund.
- A niche fund with a niche footprint: modest assets and thin trading, so spreads run wider than the giant credit ETFs and it sits in the lower half of its peer group on price and trading friction.
LQDI Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 9%
- CASH COLLATERAL USD XCITI 12/31/2049
Geography
- United States100.00%
LQDI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | LQDI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.9% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −2.2% |
| 1 year | −1.1% |
| 3 years | +5.1% |
| 5 years | +0.5% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | LQDI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.9% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +1.5% | |
| 2023 | +8.8% | |
| 2022 | −15.3% | |
| 2021 | +7.5% | |
| 2020 | +11.8% |
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LQDI Dividends
- 4.78%
- $1.21
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | $0.10 |
| May 4, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Mar 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Feb 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Oct 2, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
LQDI Risk
- 6.1%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.08
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −20.7%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
LQDI Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
28 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.