iShares 1-3 Year International Treasury Bond is an open-ended management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond Index Ex-US 1-3 Year (the Index). The Index is designed to measure the performance of treasury bonds issued in local currencies by developed market countries outside the United States that have a remaining maturity of greater than 1 year and less than or equal to 3 years. As of Oct 31 2015, the Fund's total assets were $131,117,269 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $123,871,055. The ISHG YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the ISHG YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether ISHG YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the ISHG YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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