Treasury floating-rate securities have two-year maturities and have a rate that adjusts each week based on the weekly auction of three-month T-bills. They.
Investors pile into longer-dated Treasury ETFs as bond yields fall
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal
Reuters
(Reuters) - Recent price rallies in U.S. government debt drove flows into exchange-traded funds tracking longer-dated Treasuries, according to BlackRock ETF provider iShares.
The iShares 20+ year Treasury Bond ETF attracted $1.4 billion of inflows in the past three weeks to Thursday, with around $447 million added in the last week.
Comparatively, investors pulled $547 million out of the iShares 7-10 year Treasury Bond ETF over the same period, according to iShares fixed income investment strategist Dhruv Nagrath. We see the balance of risks tilting toward higher yields as markets continue to price in the economic restart, he said.