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Fixed Income ETFs
Optimize your portfolio with BMO fixed income ETFs
BMO Global Asset Management (GAM) manages the largest and most diverse fixed income ETF suite in Canada1, offering diversified market exposure, specific credit qualities, durations, and sectors.
Whether you aim to generate cash flows, preserve capital, or diversify to reduce equity market risk, BMO ETFs have a fixed income solution for you.
Explore our fixed income ETFs
Broad Canadian access
Targeted exposure
BMO is the only provider to split the entire fixed income spectrum by term and credit in Canada2. Investors can gain precise market exposure with more focused outcomes than the traditional broad market.
- BMO Short Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZCS, ZCS.L)
- BMO Short Provincial Bond Index ETF (ZPS, ZPS.L)
- BMO Short Federal Bond Index ETF (ZFS, ZFS.L)
- BMO Mid Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZCM)
- BMO Mid Provincial Bond Index ETF (ZMP)
- BMO Mid Federal Bond Index ETF (ZFM)
- BMO Long Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZLC)
- BMO Long Provincial Bond Index ETF (ZPL)
- BMO Long Federal Bond Index ETF (ZFL)
U.S. focused
- BMO US Aggregate Bond Index ETF (ZUAG, ZUAG.F, ZUAG.U)
- BMO High Yield US Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZIC, ZIC.U)
- BMO High Yield US Corporate Bond Index ETF (ZJK, ZHY, ZJK.U)
- BMO Short-Term US IG Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD Index ETF (ZSU)
- BMO Short-Term US Treasury Bond Index ETF (ZTS, ZTS.U)
- BMO Mid-Term US Treasury Bond Index ETF (ZTM, ZTM.U)
- BMO Long-Term US Treasury Bond Index ETF (ZTL, ZTL.F, ZTL.U)
Inflation protection
Looking to shield your portfolio from the impact of inflation? Consider investing in U.S. Treasury-Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) to preserve your capital and earn regular income.
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Footnotes
1 Bloomberg December 31, 2023.↩
2 Source: NBF ETF Research, Bloomberg October 31, 2023.↩
3 The advantage of buying an ETF that has a basket of bonds trading at a discount is that a portion of the future return will come from price appreciation (difference between the discounted price and the maturity value of $100) which is treated as a capital gain for tax purposes. The information contained herein is not, and should not be construed as tax advice to any party. Professional tax advice should be obtained with respect to any circumstance.↩
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