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The Short-Term Income Advantage: Liquidity, Income, Flexibility
DWS offers a comprehensive short-term toolkit combining Xtrackers ETFs and actively managed DWS funds to deliver Treasury liquidity, core short-duration income, and targeted yield enhancement. Investors can now efficiently build and adjust allocations with precision, daily liquidity, and institutional-quality portfolio construction.
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Short-Term Income Toolkit: Liquidity, Income, Flexibility
No longer treated as a temporary cash placeholder, today’s elevated front-end yields allow investors to seek meaningful income opportunities while taking on limited duration risk.
Investors seek liquidity, but they also want their liquidity to earn meaningful income. This has created an important portfolio opportunity: Building a short-term allocation strategy that balances investors’ requirements for flexibility, yield visibility, and capital preservation.
For investors seeking a comprehensive short-term income approach, DWS and Xtrackers offer a range of strategies across the short-term risk spectrum to implement a comprehensive cash and income allocation.
- The Xtrackers US 0–1 Year Treasury ETF (TRSY) delivers access to ultra-short U.S. Treasuries in a liquid ETF wrapper. Through its low fee structure, TRSY is designed to streamline cash management, reduce unnecessary costs, and allow more yield to stay invested.
- DWS Short Duration Fund (available in multiple share classes) is an actively managed short-term bond fund designed to provide current income with limited interest rate risk—sitting between cash and core bonds on the risk spectrum. The Fund invests across sectors, including U.S. Treasuries, Agency and agency mortgage-backed securities (FNMA, GNMA), and high-quality corporate bonds.
- The Xtrackers Short Duration High Yield Bond ETF (SHYL) invests in high-yield (below investment grade) corporate bonds, which typically offer higher coupons than investment-grade or government bonds. SHYL aims to capture much of the yield of high yield bonds while mitigating some of the volatility typically associated with longer-duration credit.
- DWS suggests a tiered approach to short-term investing, building a foundation with ultra-short U.S. Treasuries (TRSY), followed by a portfolio of actively managed short-duration bonds (DWS Short Duration Fund), with a third layer of short-duration high yield for selective income enhancement (SHYL).
Credit ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest) to D (lowest). All Fund securities except for those labeled “Not Rated” and “Other” have been rated by Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, which are each a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (“NRSRO”). All Index securities except for those labeled “Not Rated” have been rated by Moody’s or S&P. Credit ratings are subject to change. One cannot invest directly into an index.
Learn more about implementing the DWS and Xtrackers Short-Term Income Playbook. Click here to download the full Investment Idea.