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The default core bond holding is quietly changing hands: Bloomberg's ETF analyst says IUSB has pulled in double AGG's flows year to date and ranks third across all fixed income.

Wrote today about how The Universal Bond Index ETF $IUSB should and will pass $AGG in asset by end of decade. It has doubled AGG's flows YTD and is 3rd overall in FI flows. Investors discovering what we've been saying for a while- it's arguably a better core holding bc it has a https://t.co/ieTbmZRRLj

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Activity card posted 2026-09-25T12:27:54.000Z

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ETF

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