iShares TIPS Bond ETF

Inflation quietly erodes the return on ordinary bonds, and TIP exists to blunt that. The fund holds Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, government bonds whose principal rises with the Consumer Price Index, so both the interest payments and the final payout keep pace with rising prices. BlackRock's iShares arm has run it since 2003, and it remains the largest fund of its kind, tracking a Bloomberg index of the full TIPS market across maturities. Because the inflation adjustment is baked into the bonds themselves, investors get a real, inflation-adjusted yield rather than a nominal one. The trade-off is that when inflation cools or real rates jump, TIP can still lose value like any bond fund. It is mainly held by people who want a direct hedge against inflation inside the safe, Treasury-backed part of a portfolio.

On MyRWA, TIP trades tokenized across 5 on-chain venues - see the listings below.