FlexShares Disciplined Duration MBS Index Fund
MBSD NYSE Arca
Creating a disciplined duration MBS portfolio, managing to an effective duration between 3.25 and 4.25 years. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the ICE BofAML® Constrained Duration US Mortgage Backed Securiti...
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- Fund size
- 56.1M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.20% per year
- Dividend yield
- 3.87% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.7% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.06 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 19.7420.62
How MBSD has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, MBSD returned +3.9% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +3.5 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±4% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −4.3% on Oct 5, 2026 — 220 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.06 means MBSD has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Downtrend- 12-day average20.09 +0.7%
- 26-day average20.04 +0.9%
- 50-day average20.06 +0.8%
- 200-day average20.15 +0.4%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Mortgage-Backed Securities · U.S. Agency Backed — tracking the ICE BofAML® Constrained Duration US Mortgage Backed Securities Index.
- Assets under management56.1MUSD
- Expense ratio0.20%per year
- Holdings505
- Risk score2.8Low
Launched September 2014. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 39 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.78
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
0.78 USD / shareWhere MBSD shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold MBSD. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
Filings & reports
Regulatory filings, reports and announcements, newest first.
About FlexShares Disciplined Duration MBS Index Fund
Creating a disciplined duration MBS portfolio, managing to an effective duration between 3.25 and 4.25 years. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the ICE BofAML® Constrained Duration US Mortgage Backed Securities Index
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 505 holdings
- 1 document on file
- Ticker
- MBSD
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33939L7799
- CUSIP
- 33939L779
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Industry
- U.S. Agency Backed
- Benchmark
- ICE BofAML® Constrained Duration US Mortgage Backed Securities Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.