Fundsters interested in the booming world of fixed-income ETFs may want to take a look at today's
Wall Street Journal "Fund Track" column. Ian Salisbury
notes that
BlackRock's
iShares [
see profile] is no longer "the only game in town," in the words of an iShares spokeswoman, though the ETF titan's 30-plus fixed-income ETFs still hold about 70 percent of the $130-plus billion in fixed-income ETF assets.
The WSJ quotes an ETF-focused advisor, Russell Wild, and highlights a number of growing fixed-income ETFs, including: the $12.5 billion
iShares barclays Aggregate Bond ETF; the $349 million
Pimco Enhanced Shore Maturity Strategy ETF [
see profile]; the $855 million
PowerShares Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF [
see profile]; the $1.3 billion
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital Short-Term Municipal Bond ETF from
State Street [
see profile]; and the $9 billion
Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF [
see profile] 
Edited by:
Neil Anderson, Managing Editor
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