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Anonymous ID: 0b09e0 Oct. 1, 2020, 10:54 a.m. No.10871490   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1555 >>1562 >>1775 >>1882

A Single Trade Just Pulled Half a Billion Dollars From TIPS Fund

 

The worst outflow in months from the world’s biggest inflation-focused bond ETF was likely the work of a single investor.

BlackRock Inc.’s $23.5 billion iShares TIPS exchange-traded fund, ticker TIP, saw over 4.4 million shares worth roughly $562 million hit the tape at 4:24 p.m. in New York on Wednesday, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Though it’s unclear if the trade the largest since April was to buy or sell shares of TIP, it lines up with the fund’s nearly $557 million outflow yesterday. BlackRock, Bank of America Corp., FMR LLC and Morgan Stanley were the only firms with enough holdings in TIP to make a trade that size, the latest available data from June show.

 

The outflow, which is the second-largest this year for TIP, comes over as U.S. stimulus negotiations are stalled. That’s dampened inflation expectations, with five-year break-even rates posting their first monthly loss since March in September. That’s cooled a steady rally for inflation-linked products such as TIP. The massive block trade could be the result of model portfolio rebalancing, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s James Seyffart. Such activity is theorized to be driving a series of dramatic flows in recent months, including record rotations across a suite of Charles Schwab Corp. funds in a single week in June. Merrill Lynch owned by Bank of America, one of TIP’s top holders is one of the biggest providers of the ready-made strategies. At the end of June, Bank of America was also the second-largest holder in BlackRock’s iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, or TLT, which saw a $556 million inflow on Wednesday – nearly identical to TIP’s outflow that day.

 

“This redemption and solo trade is so large that my guess is it was Merrill Lynch,” said Seyffart, an ETF analyst. “We often refer to them as ‘Big Foot’ in the market because you can see their footprints across the ETF markets every once in a while – like this giant trade.”

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/a-single-trade-just-pulled-half-a-billion-dollars-from-tips-fund-1.1502319

 

What Are Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)?

 

Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) are a type of Treasury security issued by the U.S. government. TIPS are indexed to inflation in order to protect investors from a decline in the purchasing power of their money. As inflation rises, TIPS adjust in price to maintain its real value.

-Treasury Inflation-Protected Security (TIPS) is a Treasury bond that is indexed to an inflationary gauge to protect investors from the decline in the purchasing power of their money.

-The principal value of TIPS rises as inflation rises while the interest payment varies with the adjusted principal value of the bond.

-The principal amount is protected since investors will never receive less than the originally invested principal.

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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp