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Goldman Sachs Enters Junk Bond ETF Fray
Friday, September 8, 2017 - 7:35am | 468Read More...Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS)'s Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit, which includes the firm's exchange-traded funds business, added to its lineup of fixed income funds Thursday with the debut of a high-yield corporate bond ETF. The Goldman Sachs Access High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE...
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Is Caution Warranted On Junk Bond ETFs?
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 7:23am | 491Read More...With bond markets increasingly pricing in higher odds that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates, it is not surprising that investors are departing corporate bond exchange-traded funds this quarter. In the current quarter, three of the six worst ETFs in terms of assets lost are corporate...
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Investors Love This Bond ETF
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 7:36am | 564Read More...With 10-year Treasurys yielding a piddly 1.6 percent, the nearly 2.9 percent investors can grab with the iShares IBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bd Fd (NYSE: LQD) is quite attractive. LQD, the largest exchange-traded fund holding investment-grade corporate debt, is widely viewed as the benchmark...
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Cash Flow Emphasis Bolsters This Corporate Bond ETF
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 2:41pm | 574Read More...A simple view of investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds is these are instruments sold to investors who, in most cases, are not looking to take on significant. Hence why creditworthiness is an integral part of evaluating corporate bonds. After all, investors in these bonds not only want...
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Guess What? Junk Bond ETFs Love Oil's Resurgence
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 7:27am | 632Read More...In news that is not exactly stunning to seasoned followers of the high-yield corporate bond market, junk bonds and the related exchange-traded funds are enjoying oil's rebound. After all, it was slumping oil prices and the specter of high-yield energy sector defaults that dragged on junk bond...
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Be Realistic With Junk Bond ETFs
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 1:24pm | 531Read More...Less than five months into 2016, it is not a stretch to say that, particularly in comparison to last year, things are pretty good for high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds. The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK...
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Keeping Score With This Corporate Bond ETF
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 7:18am | 447Read More...A sanguine interest rate environment and continuing speculation that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates any more than twice this year are among the catalysts helping investors rekindle their attraction toward corporate bond exchange-traded funds. The love fest includes high-...
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A Heavenly High-Yield Destination
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 1:19pm | 556Read More...High-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds are back in style this year. That much is confirmed by the rising tide of assets into these ETFs coupled with the surge in volume. Of course, the pillars of the junk bond ETF community are raking in the assets and garnering plenty of attention in the...
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Earning Its Wings: Fallen Angel ETF Tops $100 Million In Assets
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 12:39pm | 488Read More...In what was supposed to be a tricky environment for high-yield, corporate bond exchange-traded funds, investors are flocking to those ETFs. In fact, the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK) is this year's seventh best asset-gathering ETF with nearly $2 billion worth of inflows....
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Fifteen Bond ETFs Trading Near 52-Week Highs
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 9:04am | 1118Read More...iPath U.S. Treasury 10-year Bull ETN (NYSE: DTYL) is up nearly 30% year to date. The investment seeks to replicate the performance of the Barclays Capital 10-Year U.S. Treasury Futures Targeted Exposure index, which is designed to increase in response to a decrease in 10-year Treasury note yields...
