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FYI: This has been a big year for U.S. fixed-income ETFs, which have led asset-class net creations with inflows of more than $60 billion year-to-date. In this segment, no fund has been more popular this year, or is bigger than the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG). Regards, Ted http://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/comparing-total-return-bond-etfs?nopaging=1
From the article: "Consider five ETFs that strive to beat the AGG" (i.e. to beat the total US investment grade bond market).
BND and Vanguard in general try to match market return, not beat it. No gimmicks, no going outside the defined market. No foreign bonds (TOTL, FBND), no junk (all but AGGY), no oveweighting sectors (all).
And BND has an actual performance history one can examine and analyze. It's more fun to speculate about funds whose lifetimes are measured in months.
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BND and Vanguard in general try to match market return, not beat it. No gimmicks, no going outside the defined market. No foreign bonds (TOTL, FBND), no junk (all but AGGY), no oveweighting sectors (all).
And BND has an actual performance history one can examine and analyze. It's more fun to speculate about funds whose lifetimes are measured in months.
For anyone who wants to know more about GTO...