Global bond yields have climbed to 1.58 percent from a record low 1.07 percent in July, according to the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index.
The Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index measures the performance of global investment grade debt.
Bloomberg said on March 23 that it will include yuan - denominated Chinese government and policy - bank bonds in the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index.
Global bonds are represented by Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index; EM bonds by JP Morgan GBI - EM Index; Japan by Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX); the eurozone by Euro Stoxx 50; and the UK by FTSE 100.
Issuers from the Corporate sector represent for example 32 % of the green bond universe vs 18 % in the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index.
Source: Allianz Global Investors, Bloomberg, Global Green Bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Green Bond index, Global Aggregate represented by the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Index.
Not exact matches
The U.S.
Global GO GOLD and Precious Metal Miners
Index uses a robust, dynamic, rules - based smart - factor model to select precious minerals companies that earn over 50 % of their
aggregate revenue from precious minerals through active (mining or production) or passive (royalties or streams) means.
Moderate income model portfolio: 3 % Bloomberg Barclays 1 — 3 Month Treasury Bill
Index, 19 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index (1 — 3Y), 30 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index (5 — 7Y), 7 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index (10 + Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond
Index, 5 % JPM GBI
Global ex. - U.S.
Index, 5 % JPM EMBI
Global Index, 12 % S&P 500
Index, 2 % Russell Midcap ®
Index, 2 % Russell 2000 ®
Index, 4 % MSCI EAFE
Index (USD), 5 % FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed
Index.
Moderate Growth and Income Four Asset Group model portfolio without private capital: 3 % Bloomberg Barclays 1 — 3 Month Treasury Bill
Index, 11 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index (5 — 7Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index (10 + Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond
Index, 3 % JPM GBI
Global ex. - U.S.
Index, 5 % JPM EMBI
Global Index, 20 % S&P 500
Index, 8 % Russell Midcap ®
Index, 6 % Russell 2000 ®
Index, 5 % MSCI EAFE
Index (USD), 5 % MSCI EM
Index (USD), 5 % FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed
Index, 2 % Bloomberg Commodity
Index, 3 % HFRI Relative Value
Index, 6 % HFRI Macro
Index, 4 % HFRI Event - Driven
Index, 2 % HFRI Equity Hedge
Index.
Global Credit: Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Credit Total Return
Index.
The Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index is an unmanaged market value — weighted index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denomin
Index is an unmanaged market value — weighted
index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denomin
index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denominated.
Represents the corporate and government - related sectors of Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond Index (which provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade
Global Aggregate Bond
Index (which provides a broad - based measure of the
global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade
global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of
global investment - grade
global investment - grade debt.
Citigroup Inc.'s
global surprise
index tipped below zero on Friday for the first time since August, indicating that economic data in
aggregate are missing economist forecasts rather than beating them.
«The Shanghai Composite in
aggregate is now trading back well below average
global equity valuations at the headline
index level,» says Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley's Chief Asia and Emerging Market Equity Strategist.
For example, the Bloomberg Barclays Green Bond
Index, which was launched in 2014, has lagged the broad - based Barclays
Global Aggregate slightly over the last three years — but keep in mind that overall returns don't account for the boom in green bond issuance over that period.
Of the non-financial members of the S&P
Global 1200
index, just 32 per cent of companies held 82 per cent of the
aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 2000.
Meanwhile, IGVT tracks the Barclays
Global Aggregate Treasury Ex USD Issuer Diversified Bond
Index (USD Hedged); it covers 1,093 bonds from 37 different issuers and denominated in 23 different currencies.
IFIX tracks the Barclays
Global Aggregate Corporate Ex USD Bond
Index (USD Hedged), which covers 3,450 bonds denominated in 18 different currencies from 732 different issuers in developed and emerging markets.
Its
global counterpart, the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, chalked up $ 39 trillion and more than 14,000 i
global counterpart, the Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond Index, chalked up $ 39 trillion and more than 14,000 i
Global Aggregate Bond
Index, chalked up $ 39 trillion and more than 14,000 issues.
Both the Bloomberg Barclays US
Aggregate Bond
Index and the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index posted positive returns for the quarter, up 0.85 % and 1.76 %, respectively...
The Bloomberg Barclays US
Aggregate Bond
Index returned 3.54 % for the year while the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index returned 7.39 %.
Both the Bloomberg Barclays US
Aggregate Bond
Index and the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Bond
Aggregate Bond
Index posted positive second quarter returns, despite posting negative returns in June.
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 markets.
(We'll use the S&P U.S.
Aggregate Bond
index to represent the first portion and the S&P
Global 1200 for the second.)
The Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of global investment - grade fixed - income secur
Global Aggregate Bond
Index is an unmanaged index of global investment - grade fixed - income securi
Index is an unmanaged
index of global investment - grade fixed - income securi
index of
global investment - grade fixed - income secur
global investment - grade fixed - income securities.
The Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index is an unmanaged market value — weighted index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denomin
Index is an unmanaged market value — weighted
index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denomin
index representing securities that are SEC registered, taxable, and dollar denominated.
At the end of November, the
index is trading at a yield of 6.8 % compared to developed market debt, proxied by the Barclays Capital Global Aggregate Bond Index, which is offering a scant 1.6 %, also as of the end of Nove
index is trading at a yield of 6.8 % compared to developed market debt, proxied by the Barclays Capital
Global Aggregate Bond
Index, which is offering a scant 1.6 %, also as of the end of Nove
Index, which is offering a scant 1.6 %, also as of the end of November.
The long - only benchmark
indices — the S&P 500, Barclays
Aggregate, long USD
index, and Bloomberg Commodities
index — all show near - zero correlation to the systematic
global macro (SGM) portfolio.
For instance, Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate bond
index was up 1.11 percent in March.
7Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate ex-USD Bond
Index provides a broad - based measure of the international investment - grade bond market hedged against the U.S. dollar.
The new AA ETFs help redress the latter but of course investors are free to work with their advisors to tweak international fixed income exposure further by directly owning VBG (Vanguard
Global ex-US
Aggregate Bond
Index) and / or VBU (Vanguard US
Aggregate Bond
Index), both of which are hedged back to the Canadian dollar.
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.
As a comparison, the yield - to - maturity of the S&P
Global Developed
Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond
Index (USD) and the S&P 500 Bond
Index were 1.41 % and 3.28 %, respectively.
Though unconstrained bond funds do show periods of low, or at times negative, correlation to the U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index, they also tend to demonstrate persistently high correlation of above 0.50 to the
Global Aggregate Bond
Index, though only until 2014.
Exhibit 1 shows the rolling two - year correlation of the average monthly return of unconstrained bond funds to that of the U.S. and
global aggregate bond
indices.
On average, unconstrained bond funds experienced a maximum drawdown of 3.02 %, which was better than the U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index and the
Global Aggregate Bond
Index.
Exhibit 2 shows the risk / return profile of unconstrained bond funds versus the U.S. and
global aggregate bond
indices.
Persistently Higher Correlation to the
Global Aggregate Bond
Index Than the U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index
On average, unconstrained bond funds delivered lower return and lower return per unit of volatility than the U.S.
Aggregate Bond
Index and higher return than the
Global Aggregate Bond
Index.
«Barclays Capital Inc.» and «Barclays US Government Inflation - Linked Bond
Index», «Barclays US Treasury 1 - 3 Year Term
Index», «Barclays US Treasury 10 Year Term
Index», «Barclays UK Government Inflation - Linked Bond
Index», «Barclays Austria Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays Belgium Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays Emerging Markets Asia Local Govt Capped Bond», «Barclays Emerging Markets Europe Local Govt Capped Bond», «Barclays Emerging Markets Latin America Local Govt Capped Bond», «Barclays Emerging Markets Local Govt Bond», «Barclays Euro
Aggregate Bond
Index», «iShares Barclays Euro Corporate Bond ex-Financials Interest Rate Hedged», «Barclays Euro Corporate 1 - 5 Year Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro Corporate ex Financials 1 - 5 Year Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro Corporate ex Financials Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro -
Aggregate Financial
Index», «iShares Barclays Euro Corporate Bond Interest Rate Hedged», «Barclays Euro Corporate Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro Short Treasury (0 - 12 Months) Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 10 - 15 yr Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 1 - 3 Year Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 15 - 30 Year Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 5 Year Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 5 - 7 yr Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Bond 10 Year Term
Index», «Barclays Euro Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays Euro Government Inflation - Linked Bond
Index», «Barclays Finland Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays France Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays Germany Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays
Global Government AAA - AA Capped Bond
Index», «Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index», «Barclays
Global Aggregate Corporate
Index (EUR hedged)», «Barclays
Global Aggregate Corporate Bond
Index», «Barclays World Government Inflation - Linked Bond
Index», «Barclays Italy Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays Netherlands Treasury Bond
Index», «Barclays EM Local Currency Govt Core 0 - 5
Index», «Barclays Spain Treasury Bond
Index» and «Barclays US
Aggregate Bond
Index» are trademarks of Barclays Bank PLC and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by BlackRock Fund Advisors or its affiliates.
In fact, over the same period, the S&P Green Bond Select
Index has outperformed, returning 3.5 % more than the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index.
Benchmarks Benchmarks have been constructed using combinations of MSCI ACWI and the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate (Dollar Hedged») Total Return
index, blended to represent the weighting of equity and fixed income allocations maintained in the associated SoFi I
index, blended to represent the weighting of equity and fixed income allocations maintained in the associated SoFi
IndexIndex.
In contrast, the treasury and sovereign components of the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index totaled 55 % (see Exhibit 1).
In terms of performance, monthly returns are highly correlated with the S&P
Global Developed
Aggregate ex-Collateralized Bond
Index (USD)(see Exhibit 4).
The continuing trend of broader representation by issuers, asset types, and currencies makes the S&P Green Bond
Index a suitable substitute for
global aggregate exposure.
The benchmark is composed of 65 % MSCI World and 35 % Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond
Index.
The Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate Bond Index provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade fixed income ma
Global Aggregate Bond
Index provides a broad - based measure of the
global investment - grade fixed income ma
global investment - grade fixed income markets.
** Consists of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Float Adjusted Bond
Index (40 %), the CRSP US Total Market
Index (35 %), the FTSE
Global All Cap ex US
Index (15 %), and the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate ex-USD Float Adjusted RIC Capped
Index Hedged (10 %).
** Consists of three unmanaged benchmarks, weighted 42 % Spliced Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Float Adjusted
Index, 18 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 0 - 5 Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
Index, 25 % US Government Money Market Funds Average, and 15 % Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate ex-USD Float Adjusted RIC Capped
Index Hedged.
** Consists of the CRSP US Total Market
Index (52.5 %), the FTSE
Global All Cap ex US
Index (22.5 %), the Bloomberg Barclays U.S.
Aggregate Float Adjusted
Index (20 %), and the Bloomberg Barclays
Global Aggregate ex-USD Float Adjusted RIC Capped
Index Hedged (5 %).