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IUSB holdings

IUSB reports 18,104 holdings and behaves like 377.1 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
18,104 Positions reported
377.1 Effective holdings
48× Concentration multiple
7.38% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 4.99% at a quoted market price (level 1), 77 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

The largest line in IUSB's filing is not a stock but BlackRock Liquidity TempCash Funds: Institutional Shares, a short-term position at 2.88% of net assets. Ten companies are 7.38% of the fund; the other 18,094 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, IUSB behaves like 377.1 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.6 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IUSB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 177.2 at 2019-10-31 and 604.4 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 851 positions were added and 739 dropped; 10.0% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 88.15% of the portfolio, across 77 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, IUSB went from behaving like 177.2 equally weighted positions to 604.4 — 241% more, while its top ten went from 13.61% to 6.03% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 17,822 604.4 6.03% 2.84%
2026-01-31 17,705 721.6 5.65% 2.32%
2025-10-31 17,458 836 5.39% 1.83%
2025-07-31 17,233 711.9 5.97% 2.26%
2025-04-30 17,054 612.1 6.5% 2.73%
2025-01-31 16,849 576.3 6.67% 2.91%
2024-10-31 16,748 404.3 8.01% 3.93%
2024-07-31 16,314 412.4 7.77% 3.95%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 16,096 632.4 7.79% 1.76%
2024-01-31 15,901 522.6 6.85% 3.24%
2023-10-31 15,468 566 6.83% 2.91%
2023-07-31 15,191 320.2 8.8% 4.67%
2023-04-30 15,122 283.3 9.73% 4.99%
2023-01-31 14,868 276.7 9.73% 5.07%
2022-10-31 14,527 217.2 10.92% 5.87%
2022-07-31 14,220 229.6 10.97% 5.6%
2022-04-30 14,251 156.4 12.62% 7.18%
2022-01-31 14,119 111.7 14.87% 8.68%
2021-10-31 13,689 122.1 14.12% 8.3%
2021-07-31 13,310 77.6 17.87% 10.64%
2021-04-30 12,887 83.6 17.49% 10.18%
2021-01-31 12,174 61.7 18.35% 12.19%
2020-10-31 10,912 118.6 14.83% 8.46%
2020-07-31 10,755 97.8 16.31% 9.44%
2020-04-30 9,831 164.6 13.61% 6.76%
2020-01-31 9,436 251.7 11.35% 5.1%
2019-10-31 8,955 177.2 13.61% 6.38%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 18,104 positions in IUSB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Blackrock Liquidity Tempcash2.89%2.9%
2United States of America0.37%3.3%
3United States of America0.37%3.6%
4United States of America0.37%4.0%
5United States of America0.37%4.4%
6United States of America0.36%4.7%
7United States of America0.36%5.1%
8United States of America0.36%5.4%
9United States of America0.35%5.8%
10United States of America0.34%6.1%
11United States of America0.34%6.5%
12United States of America0.33%6.8%
13United States of America0.33%7.1%
14United States of America0.33%7.5%
15United States of America0.32%7.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of IUSB's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 87.82%
Canada 1.17%
United Kingdom 1.01%
Cayman Islands° 0.81%
Japan 0.65%
France 0.54%
Mexico 0.52%
Netherlands° 0.45%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IUSB's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

4.6%Last twelve months filed
10%Whole series, compounded
4.5%Best month
-4.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.07 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IUSB.json · all funds.

Who borrows IUSB's shares

2026-07-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $330m was out to 23 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 19.6% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $65m 19.6%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $57m 17.3%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $43m 13.1%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $32m 9.6%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $23m 7.1%

The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter IUSB has filed, with each borrower: IUSB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

17,665 positions became 17,777: 851 added (6.7% of the fund at the later date), 739 dropped (5.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IUSB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Blackrock Liquidity Tempcash2.32%2.84% United States of America0.15%0.12%
United States of America0.10%0.31% Government National Mortgage Association0.03%0.01%
United States of America0.10%0.31% Federal National Mortgage Association0.34%0.31%
United States of America0.11%0.31% United States of America0.39%0.37%
United States of America0.13%0.26% United States of America0.38%0.36%
United States of America0.02%0.12% United States of America0.38%0.36%

New: United States of America (0.29%), United States of America (0.28%), United States of America (0.28%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.22%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.21%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.20%). Gone: United States of America (0.24%), United States of America (0.24%), United States of America (0.24%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.19%), United States of America (0.18%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.18%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT74.51%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS20.22%
short-term investment STIV4.99%
ABS-O ABS-O0.28%

5.0% of IUSB is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of IUSB (377.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BSCS Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF 468 352.4 7.83% 2026-05-31
PHYL PGIM Active High Yield Bond ETF 788 353.2 8.3% 2026-05-29
ISTB iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF 7,405 365.2 8.76% 2026-07-31
TAFM AB Tax-Aware Intermediate Municipal ETF 580 373.9 7.22% 2026-05-31
CORP PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 1,458 376 10.93% 2026-06-30
USTB VictoryShares Short-Term Bond ETF 1,059 382 10.65% 2026-06-30
BSCR Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF 495 383.2 6.69% 2026-05-31
EBND State Street(R) SPDR(R) Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 627 393.6 6.22% 2026-06-30
DFSD Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF 1,603 402 9.16% 2026-07-31
EMB iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF 623 409.7 7.57% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine IUSB

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