Not exact matches
High - yield
bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US
Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped
Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.
Even in a relatively large asset class like U.S.High Yield
Corporate Bonds,
indexing has
delivered only limited success.
The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized
Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and
corporate entities in developed countries,
delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.
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.