CLOA
BlackRock AAA CLO ETF · iShares
Bonds & Treasuries
1Y Return
+5.0%
Expense Ratio
0.20%
AUM
$2.3B
Dividend Yield
4.81%
Avg Annual Growth (Since Inception)
+1.8%
Issuer
BlackRock iShares

Overview

AAA-rated slices of collateralized loan obligations — floating-rate, top-of-the-capital-stack credit that has never defaulted as a class.

Top Holdings

TickerHoldingWeight
CLOAAA CLO tranches (managed)~97%
CASHCash & equivalents~3%

Fund Details

Benchmark
J.P. Morgan CLOIE AAA
# Holdings
~416
Inception
Jan 2023
Exchange
Nasdaq
Structure
Active ETF
Distribution
Monthly
Avg Annual Growth (Since Inception)
+1.8%
Avg Annual Yield (Since Inception)
5.80%

Investment Thesis

AAA CLOs are the strange beast institutional investors kept to themselves: floating-rate paper yielding near 5% whose top tranche has survived every crisis since the 1990s without a single default — structural protection doing the work credit analysis usually does. CLOA brought it to retail at 0.20%, and the category's explosive growth says the secret is out. Complexity, not credit, is the real risk to understand.

Who It's For

Yield-seeking cash-adjacent investors ready to learn how tranching works — near-Treasury safety records with corporate-credit yields, floating so rate moves barely register.

10-Year History

Annual Closing Price
YearClose% Chg
2016----
2017----
2018----
2019----
2020----
2021----
2022----
2023$51.00--
2024$52.02+2.0%
2025$52.80+1.5%
Annual Dividend Yield
YearYield
2016--
2017--
2018--
2019--
2020--
2021--
2022--
20236.20%
20246.00%
20255.20%
Annual AUM
YearAUM% Chg
2016----
2017----
2018----
2019----
2020----
2021----
2022----
2023$0.1B--
2024$0.7B+600.0%
2025$1.8B+157.1%

Historical figures are ETFHub estimates modelled from asset-class return patterns and may differ from official fund records. Data as of August 2026.

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