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iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF

AOK tracks a proprietary index that provides significant exposure to fixed income securities and a small portion to equities with a goal of seeking current income while preserving capital.

The iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF is a balanced fund suitable for conservative investors. AOK has a significant overweight in fixed income, primarily through IUSB and IAGG. The recent decline in intermediate rates has benefited AOK's performance.

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iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF is a convenient, automatically rebalancing fund that provides exposure to global equity and fixed-income markets. The AOK ETF includes a mix of fixed income and equity funds, with a conservative risk profile and minimal drawdown potential for conservative investors. AOK offers a simple, cost-effective solution for building a diversified core portfolio, but may underperform more growth-focused solutions in the long term due to reduced equity exposure.

AOK: A One-Stop Fund For Conservative Investors

The iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF (AOK) is a stock-and-bond fund with a large allocation to bonds and a smaller allocation to equity funds. AOK outperformed the S&P 500 in terms of efficient returns through 2021, but things have taken a turn for the worse. AOK struggled in 2022 due to high inflation and rising interest rates, but there are signs that it may recover.

AOK: Worst May Be Behind

The iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF is a 70% fixed income, 30% equities fund that seeks to track the performance of a conservative stock-bond allocation strategy. The fund's composition includes fixed income ETFs such as the iShares Core Total USD Bond Market ETF and the iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF. Buying fixed income at the current macroeconomic juncture is seen as a viable option, with rate cuts priced in for 2024 and the potential for positive price performance.

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AOK is another one of these ETFs that make you pay for no value-add, where its performance is mostly dictated by a combination of two lower maintenance ETFs. While AOK would benefit from peak rates, which we think is definitely coming soon, buying IUSB and IVV in the proportions that AOK owns them is cheaper.

AOK: Just Buy IVV And IUSB Instead

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AOK is iShares benchmark ETF to track a "Conservative" asset allocation. As a traditional stock/bond allocation, AOK satisfies the definition of conservative. But I argue that the definition needs to change.

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Risk-off sentiment continues to dominate global markets. The downside bias for medium-term Treasuries (IEF) relative to short-term Treasuries (SHY) certainly hasn't changed.

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AOK is supposed to be a conservative allocation fund, and traditionally bond investments are conservative. But fixed income is still risky, and when the economic regime is rate hikes, they are actually rather risky.

AOK Isn't That Conservative Considering Duration Risk

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The markets panicked on May 5. A sharp, simultaneous pullback in stocks and bonds has rarely happened in the past few decades. History suggests that the iShares Core Conservative Allocation ETF could be facing a period of outperformance in the next 12 months.

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With yields pulling back from a five-month peak, I look for alternatives to an intermediate-term treasury ETF. AOK is a fund of funds that invests in stocks and bonds, both issued in the US and abroad.

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The affected funds include the firm's lineup of asset allocation ETFs.

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Some investors like the convenience of one investment providing both equity and fixed income exposure. iShares provides four with different equity/fixed income allocations. Here I will explain how these Fund-of-Funds function, show the current allocations, and provide performance data since inception for both AOA and AOK, the Aggressive and Conservative ETFs.

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