iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF·Financial Services

Reid L'anson breaks down how the war in Iran is impacting the energy market. He says coming into the year thinking we'd be short on oil helped coming into geopolitical conflict, but every day the Strait of Hormuz stays closed we lose profit.

I communicated in March that I would consider adding to iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF if yields crossed 430 basis points. I've decided to engage with yields at ~460. Resilient economic activity paired with a push inflation shock has resulted in a ~50 basis point increase in yields over the past six months – I see an investment opportunity. Ten-year treasuries reflect a higher expected return than equities and much of the recent inflation-based shock has arguably been priced in already.

The usual advice is to hold only 60% of your assets in stock. If you're wealthy, a 90/10 split is far better.

While investors remain fixated on AI stocks and Bitcoin ETFs, fixed-income funds are quietly emerging as one of the biggest winners of 2026.

For most of the past two years, investors have focused on the stock market's resilience.

The 10-year Treasury yield is now close to 4.7%, threatening higher borrowing costs.
The iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. Treasury bonds with remaining maturities between seven and ten years.
Financial Services
Asset Management - Bonds
2002-07-30
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