RAVI - FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund
This fund, formerly known as the "FlexShares Ready Access Variable Income Fund," is tailored for investors prioritizing a consistent income stream alongside minimal fluctuations in their investment's net asset value (NAV). The FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund (RAVI) aims to maximize current income, always with the critical objectives of protecting capital and ensuring liquidity.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Bonds
- Market Cap
- $1.45B
- Beta
- 0.04
- 52-Week Range
- 74.36-75.98
- Dividend Yield
- $3.26
- IPO Date
- Oct 11, 2012
- Exchange
- AMEX
RAVI Options Snapshot
Options pricing data for RAVI is refreshed daily after the close. When listed contracts exist, this page surfaces the latest at-the-money implied volatility, max pain strike, dealer gamma exposure (GEX), and 25-delta skew. Listed contracts and live snapshots appear once the options chain has been published by the exchange for the most recent session.
What This Page Covers
The RAVI overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure.
Frequently asked RAVI overview questions
- What is RAVI?
- RAVI is the ticker symbol for FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund, an listed exchange-traded fund. This fund, formerly known as the "FlexShares Ready Access Variable Income Fund," is tailored for investors prioritizing a consistent income stream alongside minimal fluctuations in their investment's net asset value (NAV). The FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund (RAVI) aims to maximize current income, always with the critical objectives of protecting capital and ensuring liquidity. Listed on AMEX. RAVI is the ETF ticker shown on this page; ETF traders use the fund for diversified exposure to its underlying basket, for sector and factor rotation, and for hedging or replication strategies via the listed options chain.
- What are RAVI's key statistics?
- FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund (RAVI) carries a market capitalization of $1.45B, 52-week range of 74.36-75.98. Full holdings disclosure, expense ratio, and tracking-error history live on the per-ticker fundamentals page or the sponsor's site; daily NAV and premium/discount-to-NAV are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the ETF options market prices implied volatility relative to its constituents.
- What sector or industry does RAVI belong to?
- FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund operates in the Financial Services sector, in the Asset Management - Bonds industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare RAVI's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the RAVI data on this page?
- Options snapshots refresh after each trading session; if no snapshot is currently posted for RAVI, it usually reflects low options liquidity or a recently listed name. Fund-level fields (sponsor, expense ratio, holdings concentration where available) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. ETF-specific filings (N-CSR, N-PX, N-CEN) update on the SEC EDGAR cadence. FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence; for ETFs the off-exchange volume signal is dominated by authorized-participant creation and redemption rather than directional flow.