The Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Index tracks the performance of US dollar denominated
below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market.
FAGIX's fixed income component primarily consists of
below investment grade corporate debt, as well as small allocations to bank debt.
The index is designed to track the performance of euro - and British pound sterling - denominated
below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the eurobond, sterling domestic or euro domestic markets by issuers around the world.
We can invest in just about any part of the global bond market but most of it is in credit so we subdivide the market into corporate credit and
below investment grade corporate credit, emerging market debt.
The strategy seeks to generate total return by investing across the full maturity spectrum of
below investment grade corporate bonds denominated in various currencies.
BofA Merrill US High Yield Index: Tracks the performance of U.S. dollar denominated
below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market.
Not exact matches
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Corporate High - Yield Bond: Invest generally in corporate bonds rated below investme
Corporate High - Yield Bond: Invest generally in
corporate bonds rated below investme
corporate bonds rated
below investment grade.
Short - term U.S.
investment grade corporate bond yields have mostly languished
below 2 % since 2010 while two - year U.S. government bond yields have hobbled
below 1 %, as the chart shows.
The Bloomberg Barclays High - Yield Bond Index is an unmanaged index of
corporate bonds rated
below investment grade by Moody's, S&P or Fitch Investor Service.
High - yield
corporate bonds are rated
below investment grade and are subject to greater risk of default, which could result in loss of principal — a risk that may be heightened in a slowing economy.
Invests primarily in
investment -
grade,
corporate and government bonds (up to 35 % of assets may be invested in bonds that are
below investment grade).
So then there must be a risk of so many defaults that the yield drops
below that of an
investment -
grade corporate bond fund.
Product offerings include
Investment Grade Corporate, Broad Corporate (up to 30 % exposure to below investment grade credit) and Corporate Value (no restrictions by credi
Investment Grade Corporate, Broad
Corporate (up to 30 % exposure to
below investment grade credit) and Corporate Value (no restrictions by credi
investment grade credit) and
Corporate Value (no restrictions by credit rating).
Last, floating - rate loans are often most senior in
corporate capital structures: important because floating - rate loans are often extended to companies with
below investment -
grade credit ratings.
We also compared the five - year annualized volatilities of the S&P Pan Asia Bond Index (denominated in USD) with other major bond markets, such as the U.S. treasury, U.S.
investment grade corporate, U.S. high yield
corporate, Eurozone sovereign and Australian bond markets, see the exhibit
below.
Moving into the
below investment grade category of BB + and
below municipal bonds are still outpacing their
corporate counterparts.
Below investment grade issuers, whose credit risks rating agencies view as a higher concern, and which comprise the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield
Corporate Bond Index, are yielding 4.66 % (YTW).
The strategy can also invest in global governments, government agencies, supranational issuers,
below investment grade and emerging market
corporate debt.
We subdivide the fixed - income market into Treasury bonds, mortgage - backed securities,
investment -
grade corporate bonds,
below -
investment -
grade corporate bonds, bank loans, commercial mortgage - backed securities, developed - market bonds and emerging market bonds.
If you want to pick your own non-core high - yield North American
corporate bond fund, TD offers the TD High Yield Bond Fund, which focuses mainly on BB and B rated issues at the higher quality end of
below -
investment grade and mostly hedges its U.S. currency exposure back to the Canadian dollar.
It is based on the ICE BofAML Diversified High Yield US Emerging Markets
Corporate Plus Index which tracks the performance of corporate bonds denominated in US dollars with an average credit rating below investme
Corporate Plus Index which tracks the performance of
corporate bonds denominated in US dollars with an average credit rating below investme
corporate bonds denominated in US dollars with an average credit rating
below investment grade.
High yield bond funds or junk bond funds invest in
corporate bonds that are
below investment grade.
A quick look at the quality of
investment grade municipal bonds compared to the
corporate bond market can be seen in the graph
below.
The BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Index tracks the performance of US dollar - denominated,
below -
investment -
grade corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market.
The OAS (Option Adjusted Spread) of the
investment grade corporate rating sub-indices are tighter: AAA -LRB--6 bps), AA -LRB--2 bps), A -LRB--3 bps) and BBB -LRB--5 bps) while high yield's BB and B are flat and the CCC &
below are 22 bps wider.
The subaccount seeks high current income by investing principally in
corporate bonds rated
below investment grade.
ICE BofAML US High Yield Master II Index The ICE BofAML U.S. High Yield Master II Index tracks the performance of
below investment grade U.S dollar - denominated
corporate bonds publicly issued in the US domestic market.
The market value of
below investment -
grade securities is more sensitive to individual
corporate developments and economic changes than higher rated securities.
Below we highlight a price chart of an ETF that tracks an index of
investment grade corporate bonds (LQD).
This data represents the ICE BofAML US High Yield Master II Index value, which tracks the performance of US dollar denominated
below investment grade rated
corporate debt publically issued in the US domestic market.
Below we highlight a six - month performance chart of the high yield bond ETF (HYG) and the
investment grade corporate bond ETF (LQD).
«We primarily focus on
investment -
grade, although on occasion we will dip
below for companies that we feel are financially strong, but have not yet reached
investment -
grade,» according to Richard J. Rouse, co-CEO of New York - based Lexington
Corporate Properties Trust, a publicly traded REIT that specializes in office and industrial net - lease properties.