## [# Best Performing Fixed Income ETFs Of The Year](/sections/news/best-performing-fixed-income-etfs-year)
# Best Performing Fixed Income ETFs Of The Year
In a terrible year for the asset class, not every fixed income ETF is down.
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May 16, 2022
Edited by: Sumit Roy
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It’s been a tough year to be a fixed income investor. The $82 billion [**iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG)**](https://www.etf.com/AGG) is down by nearly 10% in 2022, putting it on track for its worst year ever. Like AGG, most fixed income ETFs are down significantly.
Excluding leveraged products, there are about a dozen fixed income ETFs that are up on a year-to-date basis. Most of these funds use shorts, put options or similar strategies, which enables them to go up when bond prices go down (and rates rise).
For example, the [**Simplify Interest Rate Hedge ETF (PFIX)**](https://www.etf.com/PFIX) is designed “to be functionally similar to owning a position in long-dated put options on 20-year US Treasury bonds.” It’s up 57.5% this year.
The [**FolioBeyond Rising Rates ETF (RISR)**](https://www.etf.com/RISR) holds U.S. Treasurys and interest-only mortgage-backed securities. The MBS IOs portion of the portfolio has benefited from rising rates, propelling the fund to a 31.3% gain in 2022.
Some of the more conventional bond ETFs have also managed to eke out gains this year. The [**WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund (USFR)**](https://www.etf.com/USFR) is up 0.42% year –to date. The floating rate notes that USFR holds have little interest rate risk, as their coupon payments are reset periodically to match prevailing market rates.
Similarly, ultra-short maturity bond ETFs, like the [**Clearshares Ultra-Short Maturity ETF (OPER)**](https://www.etf.com/OPER), have little interest rate risk because they get paid back so quickly. OPER is up 0.15% this year.
For a full list of this year’s top-performing fixed income ETFs, see the table below:
**Best-Performing Fixed Income ETFs Of The Year (ex. leveraged ETFs)**
TickerFundYTD Return**[PFIX](https://www.etf.com/PFIX)****[Simplify Interest Rate Hedge ETF](https://www.etf.com/PFIX)****57.45%****[KMLM](https://www.etf.com/kmlm)****[KFA Mount Lucas Index Strategy ETF](https://www.etf.com/kmlm)****35.13%****[RISR](https://www.etf.com/risr)****[FolioBeyond Rising Rates ETF](https://www.etf.com/risr)****31.31%****[FAIL](https://www.etf.com/fail)****[Cambria Global Tail Risk ETF](https://www.etf.com/fail)****12.21%****[RRH](https://www.etf.com/rrh)****[Advocate Rising Rate Hedge ETF](https://www.etf.com/rrh)****11.46%****[RINF](https://www.etf.com/rinf)****[ProShares Inflation Expectations ETF](https://www.etf.com/rinf)****7.70%****[USFR](https://www.etf.com/usfr)****[WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund](https://www.etf.com/usfr)****0.42%****[TFLO](https://www.etf.com/tflo)****[iShares Treasury Floating Rate Bond ETF](https://www.etf.com/tflo)****0.36%****[OPER](https://www.etf.com/oper)****[Clearshares Ultra-Short Maturity ETF](https://www.etf.com/oper)****0.15%****[SGOV](https://www.etf.com/sgov)****[iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF](https://www.etf.com/sgov)****0.07%****[BIL](https://www.etf.com/bil)****[SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF](https://www.etf.com/bil)****0.01%****[PVI](https://www.etf.com/pvi)****[Invesco VRDO Tax-Free ETF](https://www.etf.com/pvi)****0.00%****[CLTL](https://www.etf.com/cltl)****[Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF](https://www.etf.com/cltl)****0.02%****[GBIL](https://www.etf.com/gbil)****[Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF](https://www.etf.com/gbil)****0.07%****[IBCE](https://www.etf.com/ibce)****[iShares iBonds Mar 2023 Term Corporate ex-Financials ETF](https://www.etf.com/ibce)****0.08%****[IBHB](https://www.etf.com/ibhb)****[iShares iBonds 2022 Term High Yield and Income ETF](https://www.etf.com/ibhb)****0.08%****[IBDN](https://www.etf.com/ibdn)****[iShares iBonds Dec 2022 Term Corporate ETF](https://www.etf.com/ibdn)****0.08%****[BILS](https://www.etf.com/bils)****[SPDR Bloomberg 3-12 Month T-Bill ETF](https://www.etf.com/bils)****0.09%****[SHV](https://www.etf.com/shv)****[iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF](https://www.etf.com/shv)****0.14%***Note: Data measures total returns for the year-to-date period through May 13, 2022.*
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