The S&P Municipal
Bond Default Index tracks municipal bonds that have entered default by not paying all or part of the promised principal or interest when due.
If and as the Puerto Rico bonds default it can be expected that they will be added to the S&P Municipal
Bond Default Index during a monthly index rebalancing and if they do they may have a significant weight in this index.
So far, the S&P Municipal
Bond Default Index is in negative territory with a return of -1.54 %.
Not exact matches
High - yield
bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped
Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including
defaulted issues) and at least one year to maturity.
In 2014, the
default rate of the S&P Municipal
Bond Index rose for the first time since 2011, finishing the year at 0.17 %.
Tyler oversees senior loan, municipal
bond and credit
default swap
indices globally.
The cost of buying
default protection on the largest
bond market borrowers in the S&P 500 is tracked by the S&P / ISDA U.S. 150 Credit Spread
Index and has fallen to lows which can be an Read more -LSB-...]
One caveat: Because
bond index funds own so much U.S. government debt, where there is little risk of
default, these funds should hold up well in financial meltdowns.
The KDP High Yield Daily
Index tracks 100
bonds that are both current and
defaulted.
Even if you did decide to add foreign
bonds in your
index portfolio, the reference to Greece (or any other country at high risk of
default) is a red herring.
Designing a
bond index fund that systematically overweights countries in danger of
defaulting would indeed be «ridiculous» and «stupid.»
High - yield
bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped
Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including
defaulted issues) and at least one year to maturity.
The correlation of the
default index with stocks and
bonds, a measure of how closely the investment returns follow each other, is negligible at 0.014 for stocks and 0.28 with
bonds.
They consider four potential predictors: (1) the
default spread (between Moody's BAA and AAA rated
bonds); (2) the broad stock market dividend yield; (3) the implied volatility of the S&P 500
Index (VIX); and, (4) the monthly net aggregate flow into the hedge fund industry.
Excluded from the
Index are non-corporate
bonds, structured notes with embedded swaps or other special features,
bonds with equity - type features (e.g., warrants, convertibility), floating - rate issues, Eurobonds,
defaulted bonds, zero coupon
bonds and payment in kind securities.
For this example, we will use the iShares DEX Short Term
Bond Index Fund (XSB) as our
default ETF, and the iShares DEX Universe
Bond Index Fund (XBB) as our replacement ETF.
Returns on the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate
Bond Index have a high correlation to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index as well as other peer indices while the constituents of the index have had a lower instance of default historic
Index have a high correlation to the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate
Bond Index as well as other peer indices while the constituents of the index have had a lower instance of default historic
Index as well as other peer
indices while the constituents of the
index have had a lower instance of default historic
index have had a lower instance of
default historically.
By keeping
bonds in the benchmark even when a
default occurs, the
index has become a living timeline, allowing us to track the municipal
bond default rate.
Some unique features of the
index are that it is designed to measure
bonds throughout their «lifetime,» meaning from issuance to maturity (as of the
index rebalancing date, the
bond must have a minimum term to maturity or complete call date greater than or equal to one calendar month), and it includes
bonds that range in quality from «AAA» to «
Default.»
Based on the
index data, the high - yield municipal
bond default rate also jumped from 0.807 % to 1.264 % in 2014.
Yields are compressed across investment sectors, with the yield on the Dow Jones Corporate
Bond Index setting a record low last week, and a spread over Treasury yields that I doubt will even compensate for a very, very low level of corporate
defaults — much less what one might anticipate should the U.S. join the recession that is already evident among much of the developed world (which I expect it will).
The diversification you get in ETFs and
index mutual funds helps to limit the risk of a big hit if a particular
bond defaults.
6) Junk
bonds have rallied to a high degree; at this point I say, underweight them — the
default losses are coming, and the yields on the
indexes don't reflect that.
Even though it may be concerning that Bank of America Merrill Lynch
index data shows yields on junk
bonds have plunged to 5.6 percent, the lowest ever and 3.4 percentage points below the decade - long average, the outlook for
defaults does look pretty good.
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