Fixed Income

In an interview with Benzinga, Gurinder Ahluwalia, co-founder and CEO at 280 CapMarkets, a fintech for bond markets, discussed increasing access and transparency in the fixed-income trading space. The What Founded in 2016, 280 CapMarkets is a tech solution for the fixed-income markets that started...

FREĠNAN, an artificial intelligence-driven investment research tool, leverages small data to create industry-leading financial models and risk assessments, CEO Vince Julier told Benzinga in an interview.  About The CEO  Julier, a director and founder at FREĠNAN, worked in commercial...

Global equities ended 2018 down by 13 percent and have rebounded around 11 percent, implying that the market environment is different today than it was at the end of last year, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Tuesday after the...

Investors looking to add some spice their fixed-income portfolios, particularly during rising interest rate environments, can consider convertible bonds. Convertibles are hybrid securities because they are bonds with embedded options that allow investors to convert the bonds into equity in the...

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds set a blistering pace of asset gathering in the first half of 2017, easily positioning the asset class to top 2016's record inflows. Bond ETFs' torrid asset-gathering acumen this year comes even as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice with...

With the possibility of another interest rate hike or two looming in the United States and negative interest rates still lingering in other parts of the developed world, the fixed income landscape is trying investors that are searching for income. A growing number of exchange-traded funds allow...

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, and the corresponding exchange-traded funds have been a hot asset class this year. Inflation is an increasingly important topic for the Federal Reserve, and investors have been pouring billions of dollars into fixed income exchange-traded funds....

Many fixed income investments are viewed as conservative, but in today's potentially turbulent bond markets, it does not hurt to get some assistance. The SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF (NYSE: TOTL) is an exchange-traded fund that can do just that. Taking On TOTL TOTL, Jeff Gundlach...

Fixed income is one of the hottest corners of the exchange-traded funds industry this year, a trend some market observers believe will continue, particularly as professional investors look for more liquid alternatives to individual bonds. Bond ETFs “While bonds do not trade on an exchange,...

Advisors and investors are piling into fixed income exchange-traded funds this year, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years as more institutional investors turn to bond ETFs. Through the first half of 2016, about $40 billion flowed into bond ETFs, with approximately half of that...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)'s J.P. Morgan Asset Management unit added its second new exchange-traded fund this week with the debut of the firm's first fixed income ETF on Thursday. The JPMorgan Disciplined High Yield ETF (NYSE: JPHY) is actively managed. JPHY holds only dollar-...

Money managers who may be required to allocate a certain portion of cash in fixed income investments are faced with a simple problem: There are few opportunities where bond yields are attractive, let alone yielding a positive return. According to a CNBC report, large fund managers, such as...

Fixed income exchange-traded funds are providing investors with plenty of excitement this year, most of it good, but the usual view of bond funds, particularly those holding U.S. Treasurys, is that these are boring instruments. Boring can be beautiful. The returns offered by a number of bond ETFs...

As global equity markets have seen increased turbulence to start 2016, investors have been running to safe-haven destinations. That includes exchange-traded funds holding U.S. government bonds. Professional investors are expected to boost their usage of fixed-income ETFs with nearly two-thirds...