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Bond market dilemma: How to lower duration without sacrificing yield
Investors could benefit from investing in a lower-duration, diversified fixed-income solution that invests in high income-producing sectors, such as high-quality high yield or emerging market debt.
New ETF firm wants to shake up fixed-income investing
BondBloxx, founded by a group of former BlackRock executives, will offer fixed-income exchange-traded funds that target specific industry sectors.
The new active approach to credit investing
Enhancing the return prospects of individual investors seeking yield calls for hands-on, agile, active management — and the more flexible the approach, the better.
Vice proves hard habit to kick as ESG enters credit markets
Companies in sectors that many ESG funds would exclude, such as tobacco, fossil fuel and gaming companies, can still access credit markets with relative ease, investors say.
Junk bonds benefit from Fed support
The Fed reported late last month that it had purchased some $1.3 billion of exchange-traded funds, including $223 million of high-yield bond ETFs
Despite market rebound, equity funds saw net outflows in April
While stocks are still out of favor, taxable bond funds are gaining appeal, according to Morningstar
Junk-bond ETFs add most assets since 2015
The news that the Fed was willing to buy some high-yield debt has made investors more comfortable about buying
Bond ETFs come of age
The $150 billion that flowed into bond exchange-traded funds in 2019 herald a new order
Third Avenue had no exit plan in place
After peaking way back in 2014 and declining ever since, the high-yield bond market finally has made national news over the past week with the very high profile blow up of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund.
Floating-rate funds: How much risk?
In today's low-yield environment, investors have good reason to be concerned about the impact rising rates could have on their fixed-income portfolios.
Rising rates creating short-term junkies
Rising interest rates have yield-starved investors moving into short-term high-yield-bond funds, and mutual fund companies are planning new…
High hopes for high-yield debt
As interest rates rise, junk bonds could be a safe bet for investors
Vanguard steers clear of high-yield funds
Lack of liquidity makes them less attractive than their investment-grade counterparts
Gross on junk: Curb your enthusiasm
High-yield market isn't overheated yet, but it's getting close, he contends
Junk-bond sell-off just a blip, managers say
Although the high-yield market might not have changed fundamentally, junk-bond yields have taken a noticeable dive from their peak late last month.
Pay more attention to yield or spread?
In their perpetual hunt for income, bond investors would be wise to take along a pair of binoculars.
ETFs may become preferred way to speculate on junk bonds
Exchange-traded funds are poised to overtake credit derivatives by year-end as a way to speculate on junk bonds.
Investors pile into junk bonds
In the week ended Sept. 19, investors funneled the second-biggest weekly amount of cash ever and the most…
Junk bin looking mighty attractive right now
With yields now hovering at more than 6.5 percentage points over comparable Treasury bonds, it would be foolish…
JPMorgan likes junk bonds over stocks
Junk bonds are becoming as attractive as stocks as relative yields on the debt soar to a two-year high and a U.S. recession becomes likelier, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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