The strategy to go long certainly pivots from last year's strategy to shorten duration as rates were on the rise in the throes of an extended bull run. Now that the steam could be dissipating from a strong equities market, rising yields could work in favor of longer duration debt. "As fears of rising interest rates have abated, fixed-income investors have been creeping back out to the farther reaches of the yield curve," wrote Ben Johnson in Morningstar. "Over the 12 months through October 2019, exchange-traded funds in the long-term bond Morningstar Category have amassed $4.1 billion in net new inflows. This equates to 53% organic growth in this figure on a year-over-year basis–the highest reading since the year ended in October 2014. Here, I highlight one of our top-rated ETFs within the category." BLV seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index.