iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF $TLT Shares Acquired by Checchi Capital Advisers LLC

Checchi Capital Advisers LLC increased its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) by 49.1% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 171,613 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock after purchasing an additional 56,479 shares during the period. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF accounts for 0.8% of Checchi Capital Advisers LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 28th largest position. Checchi Capital Advisers LLC’s holdings in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF were worth $14,877,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its position in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 125.5% in the fourth quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 8,997,581 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $784,229,000 after buying an additional 44,234,543 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 10.5% during the fourth quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 109,057,503 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $9,505,452,000 after acquiring an additional 10,380,437 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley grew its position in shares of iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 31.3% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 19,186,986 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $1,672,338,000 after acquiring an additional 4,577,906 shares during the last quarter. Pureheart Capital Pte Ltd. bought a new stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF in the 4th quarter valued at about $292,683,000. Finally, Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its stake in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF by 3.4% during the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 43,140,136 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $3,760,094,000 after purchasing an additional 1,418,641 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 73.33% of the company’s stock.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Trading Up 0.1%

NASDAQ TLT opened at $84.08 on Wednesday. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $85.38 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $86.80. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has a 52 week low of $82.77 and a 52 week high of $92.18. The stock has a market cap of $41.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.75 and a beta of 0.51.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a monthly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, July 7th. Investors of record on Wednesday, July 1st were issued a $0.318 dividend. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, July 1st.

About iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of United States Treasury bonds with remaining maturities greater than 20 years. The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Barclays U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index (the Underlying Index), which measures the performance of public obligations of the United States Treasury that have a remaining maturity of 20 or more years. The Underlying Index includes all publicly-issued the United States Treasury securities that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to 20 years.