- Pays: monthly.
- First paid: July 2023 — every payment since is charted below.
- What it is: an actively managed multi-sector bond fund — BlackRock's Rick Rieder team ranging across global fixed income for the best income per unit of risk.
- Fee: 0.52% gross / 0.40% net expense ratio (fee waiver; issuer page).
- The manager: led by BlackRock CIO of fixed income Rick Rieder — one of the few star-manager bond funds in ETF form.
Bond-fund income is the market's most transparent: the fund passes through what its holdings yield, so the chart below is really a chart of interest rates as lived by income investors — no option overlays, no engineered payouts.
BINC pays monthly. Each point below is one dividend since July 2023.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Dividend / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from BINC's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.
A real total-return estimate, assuming every payout was reinvested — including what happened to the share price. Before taxes and fees. Past performance does not predict the future.
Most funds on this site manufacture yield — options sold, leverage added, payouts engineered. BINC just owns debt and forwards the interest. That makes its chart the honest baseline: whatever an option-income fund pays above this is the price of the extra risk it carries.
Watch how differently it moves from the equity-income funds — overlay BINC against any of them on the compare tool, and find its next payday on the live dividend calendar.
| Year | Total Dividends / Share | Payments | Change vs Prior Year |
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Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is BINC's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
BINC pays monthly. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from BINC's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
BINC's Record So Far
BINC — the iShares Flexible Income Active ETF — launched in May 2023 and has paid monthly since July 2023. The chart above shows every declared dividend.
The Active Bet in Bonds
Active management has a poor record picking stocks and a considerably better one in bonds, where markets are fragmented and indexes are blunt. BINC is the highest-profile test of that thesis in the ETF era — launched 2023, renamed from BlackRock Flexible Income to the iShares brand, and paying monthly from whatever its managers currently judge the best-priced income on earth.
Reading the Chart Honestly
For a bond fund, the payment line tracks interest rates and the share price tracks them inversely — judge the package on total return for your holding period, not either line alone. The compare tool puts BINC beside anything else we track.
See Every Fund's Next Payday
The live dividend calendar computes expected ex-dividend windows for every fund we track — one page, all the paydays.
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