Sentences with phrase «broad bond market»

While broad bond market ETFs saw their share (US$ 8.3 billion for the quarter), it's clear that investors are taking advantage of many bond options available in ETFs.

As long - term investments, many factors that roil the stock or even broader bond markets don't affect high yield, the panelists pointed out.

Fund Index Tracking Broad bond market Ticker return return error iShares DEX Universe Bond XBB 6.4 % 6.7 % -0.4 % -LSB-...]

Jeffrey Rosenberg explains why recent comments from the central bank makes a September liftoff look all the more likely and what this means for the broader bond market and the price of gold.

Jeffrey Rosenberg explains why recent comments from the U.S. central bank makes a September liftoff look all the more likely and what this means for the broader bond market and the price of gold.

High yield bonds, which have outperformed the broader bond market year - to - date, could be a good option within fixed income.

High yield bonds, which have outperformed the broader bond market year - to - date, could be a good option within fixed income.

For that matter, your bond holdings could also have been more risky than the broad bond market, which could be the case if you invested heavily in high - yield, or junk, bonds, which lost more than 25 %.

At base, this looks like Vanguard's attempt to generate an active fund that's just slightly more attractive than a broad bond market index.

Within each broad bond market sector you will find securities with different issuers, credit ratings, coupon rates, maturities, yields and other features.

The next year, 2008, the Standard & Poor's 500 index got clobbered with a 37 % loss, while the broad bond market gained a bit over 5 %.

The unwillingness to improve is part of a phenomenon in the broader bond market (which is responsible for «interest rates» in general).

When 10 - year Treasury yields surged by more than one and a half percentage points in early 1994, for example, the broad bond market lost roughly 6 % over the course of a little more than three months, and long - term Treasuries lost nearly twice that amount.

In the financial crisis year of 2008, for example, the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 37 % of its value, while the broad bond market gained just over 5 %.

During the 10 years through year - end 2008, the S&P 500 - stock index lost 1.4 % a year, including reinvested dividends, while the broad bond market returned 6.2 %.

In 2015, for example, the stock market returned roughly 1.4 %, while the broad bond market gained about 0.6 %.

We are prepared — and would find it encouraging — to see the broader bond market environment shift from one of fear and historically low yields to one of renewed growth and potentially rising interest rates.

But if you had expanded your holdings to include bonds, you would have earned less, as the broad bond market was on pace to earn less than half the S&P 500's return.

In fact, the broad bond market is headed toward a return more than 5 % this year, while it appears long - term Treasuries will actually outperform stocks with a 20 % - plus return.

Bortolotti and Bender say ZDB remains a good choice for taxable investors needing exposure to the broad bond market (average duration is seven years, similar to VAB).