iShares TIPS Bond ETF

iShares TIPS Bond ETF holds a broad and diversified portfolio of TIPS in an extremely liquid and efficient package. It seeks to track the investment results of Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index (Series-L), an index composed of inflation-protected U.S. Treasury bonds. With a broad-based exposure to TIPS, bonds issued by the U.S. government featuring principal that adjusts based on certain measures of inflation, this Fund is competitive from a cost perspective and offers up unmatched liquidity, making it worthy of consideration for any investors seeking exposure to this corner of the bond market. TIP has become tremendously popular as a way of protecting asset values against upticks in inflation, and as such can be used in different ways by a number of different types of investors.