While both Chinese government and corporate bonds traded tighter, the yield of the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index tightened by 91bps to 5.56 %, as of June 30, 2014.
The S&P
China Corporate Bond Index managed to retreat from the lows and delivered a total return of 5.98 %, which outperformed the S&P China Government Bond Index in the same period.
The S&P 500 ® Bond Index is designed to measure the performance of U.S. corporate bonds issued by the constituents of the iconic S&P 500, and it rose 6.05 % last year, compared with the 0.58 % gain in the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index (see Exhibit 2).
The «Corporate (%)» represents the market cap of the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index / S & P China Bond Index.
The S&P
China Corporate Bond Index has expanded rapidly in the past 10 years, as the market value tracked by the index was RMB 18 trillion, which has increased 34-fold since the index's first value date on Dec. 29, 2006, and the yield - to - maturity stood at 5.04 % with a modified duration of 2.44 (see Exhibit 2 for the yield comparison).
Exhibit 2: Yield - to - Maturity of the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index and S&P China Government Bond Index
The yield - to - maturity of the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index came down 170 bps to 3.66 % in 2015.
The S&P
China Corporate Bond Index is used to run the correlation with the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, in orange color.
The S&P China Bond Index, the S&P China Government Bond Index and the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index are calculated in CNY.
Interestingly, the one - year total return of the S&P China High Quality Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year Index was 6.61 % as of May 16, 2016, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index, which returned 6.18 % over the same period.
Specifically, the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index had a negative correlation with the U.S. issued high yield and investment grade bonds.
Looking at performance since Sept. 30, 2015, the S&P 500 Bond Mega 30 High Yield Index outperformed and rose 28 %, while the S&P 500 Bond Mega 30 Investment Grade Index gained 9.04 % and the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index gained 6.35 %.
Exhibit 1: Total Return Performance of the S&P China Bond Index, S&P China Government Bond Index, and the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index
The market value of the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index also gained 15 % in the past year.
We first ranked and sorted the 30 largest bonds in the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index and compared them against the S&P 500 Bond Mega 30 Indices.
The S&P
China Corporate Bond Index outperformed the S&P China Sovereign Bond Index and gained 4.26 % YTD, and its yield - to - maturity tightened by 110 bps to 4.26 % as of June 29, 2015 — a level last seen in late 2010.
Within the Chinese corporate bond market, the offshore market, denoted by the S&P / DB ORBIT Credit Index, is relatively small compared with the onshore market, represented by the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index.
The S&P China Government Bond Index dropped 2.35 % during the same period, underperforming the S&P
China Corporate Bond Index.
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The S&P
China High Quality
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year Index, an investible index tracks the performance of Chinese corporate bonds within three to seven year tenors and uses more stringent rating criteria, has outperformed its boarder benchmark and returned 5.70 % YTD, as of August
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year
Index, an investible index tracks the performance of Chinese corporate bonds within three to seven year tenors and uses more stringent rating criteria, has outperformed its boarder benchmark and returned 5.70 % YTD, as of August 27,
Index, an investible
index tracks the performance of Chinese corporate bonds within three to seven year tenors and uses more stringent rating criteria, has outperformed its boarder benchmark and returned 5.70 % YTD, as of August 27,
index tracks the performance of Chinese
corporate bonds within three to seven year tenors and uses more stringent rating criteria, has outperformed its boarder benchmark and returned 5.70 % YTD, as of August
corporate bonds within three to seven year tenors and uses more stringent rating criteria, has outperformed its boarder benchmark and returned 5.70 % YTD, as of August 27, 2015.
Recent innovations include the S&P 500 ®
Bond Index covering corporate bonds issued by the companies in the S&P 500, the S&P U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, as well as indices that track the global developed sovereign, China onshore, Pan Asia, ESG, Indian, and African bond mark
Bond Index covering
corporate bonds issued by the companies in the S&P 500, the S&P U.S. Aggregate
Bond Index, as well as indices that track the global developed sovereign, China onshore, Pan Asia, ESG, Indian, and African bond mark
Bond Index, as well as
indices that track the global developed sovereign,
China onshore, Pan Asia, ESG, Indian, and African
bond mark
bond markets.
Looking at the country level, the S&P
China Bond Index rose 3.24 % YTD as of June 29, 2015, compared to the 1.95 % YTD gain of the S&P Pan Asia
Bond Index, which tracks the performance of local - currency - denominated government and
corporate bonds from 10 countries in the Pan Asia region.
Some of the outperformers are the S&P Eurozone Developed Sovereign
Bond Index (up 11.98 %), the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index (up 7.71 %) and the S&P
China Government
Bond Index (up 10.35 %).
In response to concern related to the discrepancies between Chinese domestic and international ratings, we launched the S&P
China High Quality
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year Index, which is designed to measure higher - quality corpora
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year
Index, which is designed to measure higher - quality
corporatecorporate bonds.
The S&P 500
Bond Index market value is larger than China's and Japan's corporate bond markets; it's even larger than the sum of all Pan Asia local currency corporate bond mark
Bond Index market value is larger than
China's and Japan's
corporate bond markets; it's even larger than the sum of all Pan Asia local currency corporate bond mark
bond markets; it's even larger than the sum of all Pan Asia local currency
corporate bond mark
bond markets.
In the search for higher - quality
corporate bonds, we adopted a two - tier screening approach in our index design and launched the S&P China High Quality Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Ye
corporate bonds, we adopted a two - tier screening approach in our
index design and launched the S&P China High Quality Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year I
index design and launched the S&P
China High Quality
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Ye
Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year
IndexIndex.
Within the
corporate bond market, the S&P China Industrials Bond Index is the largest and the fastest growing sector, which represents over 48 % of the mar
bond market, the S&P
China Industrials
Bond Index is the largest and the fastest growing sector, which represents over 48 % of the mar
Bond Index is the largest and the fastest growing sector, which represents over 48 % of the market.
The
index currently tracks the performance of 9,650 government and
corporate bonds from
China.
The S&P
China Bond Index rose 0.70 % MTD and 2.85 % YTD, led by the gains in the
corporate bonds.
And noticeably, the market value tracked by the S&P
China Bond Index rose 16 % to RMB 26 trillion, fueled by the strong issuance in the
corporate market.
Comparing across the sectors, the Chinese government
bonds outperformed the
corporate bonds last month; the S&P
China Government
Bond Index advanced 1.56 %.