Bond ETF’s Price Divergence From NAV: How Do We Tell Which Was “Right”?

May 7, 2020 | ECONOMICS & INVESTING

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¹Blackrock, the parent company of iShares, noted in their first quarter earnings conference call that “on March 12th, an especially volatile day, the iShares investment-grade bond ETF, LQD, traded almost 90,000 times, while its top five holdings traded an average of 37 times.”

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