Sentences with phrase «many of the bond indexes»

The fund adjusts its allocations daily based upon equity and bond market volatility, correlation between the bond and equity indexes, and the yield - to - maturity of the bond index.

I'm a fan of bond index funds for the fixed - income portion of a portfolio.

(This is true of bond index funds, too.)

The vast majority of bond index funds sell them before maturity because major bond indexes provided by BarCap (ex-Lehman) all have minimum maturity clauses, forcing them to sell the bonds early in order to track the index properly.

«If the stock market drops by roughly 20 per cent or more,» he adds, «I'll rebalance by selling some of my bond index to buy some of my stock indexes.»

Although bonds do not have voting rights, ESG considerations can be applied to the construction of bond indexes similar to how they are for equity indexes.

Stratified sampling allows us to select a subset of bonds that have similar characteristics of a bond index, without having to hold every single bond.

The fund adjusts its allocations daily based upon equity and bond market volatility, correlation between the bond and equity indexes, and the yield - to - maturity of the bond index.

Many of the bond indexes, therefore, track the actual underlying price movement of the bonds, although some will directly track bond yields.

Like stock indexes, most of the bond indexes use a limited number of bond issues to chart the price movement of a larger universe of bonds.

The treatment of issuers with different credit ratings has always been problematic for sponsors of bond indices.

The important point is this: as the duration of indexes increases and as credit quality decreases, the expected long - term return of a bond index increases to compensate for those extra risks.

As a result, key characteristics of a bond index, such as the average maturity of bonds in the index, can change every year.

This article provides an overview of bond indexes and ways you may consider using them to follow...

Let's finally examine the mean - variance efficiency of the bond indexes.

Not exact matches

MSCI's emerging market share index fell 0.4 percent with Russian dollar - denominated stocks chalking up some of the biggest losses and currencies and bonds staying firmly under pressure too.

The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond fund, an index product that tracks the sector, has a trailing 12 - month yield of 4.33 percent.

The JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global, a U.S. dollar - denominated index of 65 emerging - market countries, yields aboutIndex Global, a U.S. dollar - denominated index of 65 emerging - market countries, yields aboutindex of 65 emerging - market countries, yields about 5 %.

The chart shows the number of transactions in Treasury bonds divided by the MOVE index, or Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate, which measures Treasury market volatility.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks.

April 26 - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a strong open for the tech - heavy Nasdaq on Thursday as a slew of upbeat earnings from Facebook and Qualcomm helped set aside worries over rising U.S. bond yields and corporate costs.

The yield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.

This is kind of DIY turned up a notch — index funds and ETFs are baskets full of stocks (or bonds, depending on the type of fund you've selected).

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

Broader green bond indices, usually an assortment of companies and sectors often unrelated to renewable energy generation, have seen lacklustre returns, much lower than those of appropriately - defined indices.

And in those accounts you're probably investing in all kinds of different things because you can choose from thousands of different stocks, bonds, mutual funds, index funds, REITs, MLPs, and so on.

A particular group of managers who constantly update their view on the best macro opportunities are known as ETF strategists — they use index ETFs to create a global stock and bond portfolio.

The MOVE index — which looks at the volatility of bonds — surged after the election, as the sell - off and shakiness in fixed income came to a head.

Treasury bonds, which tend to have longer durations, now represent more than one - third of the index compared with 22 percent in 2007.

First, he believes that an investor in a low - cost S&P index fund who reinvests all dividends will do better — very likely substantially better — than an investor who buys a 17 - year government bond and reinvests all of his coupons in the same instrument.

His expectation is that the overall volatility of a portfolio 30 percent in short - term bonds and 70 percent in stocks is going to be on par with one that is 40 percent invested in a fund tracking the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate index and 60 percent in stocks.

Moreover, Treasuries are quite sensitive to rate increases, and Ms. Jones found that the credit quality of the corporate bonds in the index had decreased since the financial crisis.

Bonds, as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF (BND), were down more than 2 percent year - to - date through the end of February.

The bank's MOVE Index of volatility in the world's largest bond market was at 82.7 on May 29, up from 75.3 at the end of April and compared with an average of 77.6 over the past five years.

Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.

Each fund invests in Vanguard's broadest index funds, giving you access to thousands of U.S. and international stocks and bonds, including exposure to the major market sectors and segments.

Its underlying index selects and weights its bonds by market value, and this method yields a portfolio that aligns well with our benchmark in terms of credit tranches and maturity buckets, with the only notable difference being a slightly lower YTM.

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It involves such things as the development of customised bond market indexes, and efforts to remove the various small impediments that individual countries have managed, perhaps unintentionally, to put in the way of investors.

The $ 1.2 trillion market for U.S. junk bonds yields about 6.6 percent, double what's offered by higher - rated company debt, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.

The index includes bonds with a minimum credit rating BAA3, are issued as part of a deal of at least $ 50 million, have an amount outstanding of at least $ 5 million and have a maturity of 8 to 12 years.

SHYL tracks an index of USD - denominated high - yield corporate bonds with 0 to 5 years remaining to maturity.

When you put your money in an index fund, you're investing in a broad range of stock or bonds (again, usually an entire market), so you don't have to deal with — or do the research associated with — buying and selling individual stocks.

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.

The MOVE Index tracks the volatility of Treasury bonds.

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The bond sector allocations and duration of passively - managed ETFs will not deviate at all from the benchmark index.

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Most of the corporate data from the 1950s (e.g. Moodys and Dow Jones Corporate Bond index) is for 20 to 30 year maturities.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate 5 — 7 Year Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of five to seven yeBond Index is unmanaged and is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of five to seven yebond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of five to seven years.