Sentences with phrase «corporate bond exposure»

As we get further along in the business cycle, I tend to keep the maturities in my corporate bond exposure a little shorter than I would earlier in the cycle.

Not exact matches

«What we're doing is reducing exposure to more cyclical industrial corporate credit risk around the globe — high yield bonds, bank loans, investment - grade corporate bonds,» said Collins.

He's also reducing risk on the fixed - income side, reducing exposure to high - yield and adding Treasurys and some corporate bonds.

To implement our long maturity exposure, we use the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD / NY) because we also wanted exposure to the U.S. dollar.

Certain types of bond funds, such as broad market bond funds, are also diversified across bond sectors, providing exposure to corporate, U.S. government, government agency and mortgage - backed bonds.

State Street does offer separate exposure to corporates and government debt, but neither the SPDR Barclays International Treasury Bond ETF (BWX) nor the SPDR Barclays International Corporate Bond ETF (IBND) are currency hedged.

«If you have an allocation to an aggregate bond exposure, you can use our two products to dial up or dial down, respectively, the corporate and the government exposures in line with your asset allocation designs,» said Arne Noack, a director with Deutsche Asset Management's Exchange Traded Product Development team.

Typically, investors may be driven to buy something familiar, such as a bond fund or individual corporate bonds for fixed income exposure, but if you're willing to take a little bit of risk, you can check out a Lending Club investment.

IGIH provides exposure investment - grade, US - dollar - denominated corporate bonds while minimizing interest - rate risk by shorting U.S. Treasurys that match in terms of duration.

Interest - rate risk also guided corporate - debt exposures, with investors allocating a record US$ 1.3 billion to the iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF.

But there's an important difference, Bortolotti notes: XQB's 40 % exposure to corporate bonds makes it somewhat riskier than VAB.

Maybe shift a bit of bond exposure into provincial or corporate debt for a yield bump.

Diversifying with international corporate bonds can potentially reduce exposure to market variations of a single currency, issuer, and asset class.

Investment Grade Corporate Bong ETFs offer exposure to high - quality corporaCorporate Bong ETFs offer exposure to high - quality corporatecorporate bonds.

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The corporate bonds, both investment grade and high yield, replace equity exposure.

«He may want to look at obtaining some exposure to corporate bonds to soften the impact of future increases in interest rates on the value of his fixed income portfolio.»

The debt portion of the fund favors corporate bonds but spreads its exposure around to multiple sectors.

It changes the conversation from «I have this much government bonds and this much corporate bonds» to «I have this much exposure to changes in interest rates, and this much exposure to credit markets».

Ideally, you want to choose a combination of low - cost funds that will give you exposure to stocks of all types and styles (domestic, foreign, large, small, growth and value) as well as bond funds that track the broad investment - grade bond market (government and corporate issues in a range of maturities).

We like inflation - protected Treasuries (TIPS) instead of nominal bonds, favor shortening interest rate exposure and favor more corporate credit.

«With today's launch, knowledgeable investors now have an even larger suite of geared ETFs to help manage their exposures to high yield and investment grade corporate bonds.»

The RBC ETF seeks to provide unitholders with exposure primarily to the performance of a diversified portfolio of Canadian corporate and government bonds, divided («laddered») into five groupings with staggered maturities from one to five years, that will provide regular income while preserving capital.

Within the other corporate sectors, utilities (including electric and water companies) represented 6.2 % of total bond exposure, while consumer products and services (such as retail, home furnishings, food products and services) represented 5.3 % of total bond exposure.

They can also reduce their exposure to bank failure by diversifying out of bank deposits into stocks and investment grade corporate bonds or a broad bond index through use of low fee exchange traded funds.

Investors in corporate bonds have a wide range of choices when it comes to bond structures, coupon rates, maturity dates, credit quality and industry exposure.

In the fixed income space, investors can look to the S&P International Corporate Bond Index to bolster the stability and diversity of their investments through exposure to investment grade corporate debt outside the UniteCorporate Bond Index to bolster the stability and diversity of their investments through exposure to investment grade corporate debt outside the Unitecorporate debt outside the United States.

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 dolbond 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 dolBond 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.

As a result we're currently emphasising economically sensitive equities, short duration, good quality corporate bonds and a growing exposure to inflation beneficiaries.

The fund offers investors low - cost exposure to the broad U.S. investment - grade corporate bond market through a single fund.

Since you already have 80 % exposure to equities, chasing the yield of corporate bonds for a very small part of your portfolio seems unnecessary.

Seeks to provide diversified exposure to short - term US dollar - denominated high yield corporate bonds

VCSH offers exposure to investment grade corporate bonds that fall towards the short end of the maturity spectrum, thereby delivering a moderate amount of credit risk but limiting exposure to rising interest rates.

The same principle is true for Cincinnati Financial's bond portfolio, where no corporate exposure is higher than 0.7 % of the total bond portfolio.

High - yield corporate bonds may also be used to gain modest exposure to higher - yielding maturities, though the portfolio is unlikely to hold a large percentage of high - yield bonds, especially those of longer duration.

The Aggressive Portfolio's asset allocation is comprised of ETFs that provide exposure to a mix of large cap stocks, government and corporate bonds, and an allocation of up to 15 % of the portfolio to alternative investment strategies.

Some of our blended portfolios include ETFs, which are utilized inside of our fixed income strategy (using a laddered corporate bond strategy) and our international strategy (to get exposure to certain countries).

Our analysis yielded that the exposure in the LQD ETF (iShares investment - grade corporate bonds) has roughly the exposure of 75 % government bonds (IEF = 7 -10-year US Treasuries) and 25 % US equities (VTI = Vanguard US Total Equity Market ETF).

Two Factors: Volatility and Credit Spread To achieve better security selection, we chose two factors that empirically have demonstrated a strong relationship between factor exposure and performance statistics and that have long been incorporated in investment analysis by corporate bond portfolio managers.

In our model fixed income portfolio, we trimmed our exposure to corporate bonds, particularly high - yields.

I also don't know the rationale behind adding exposure to corporate bonds at the expense of short - term government bonds and a narrow sector like materials instead of a broad - market fund.

While the High Yield US Corporate Bond ETF appears to be a slightly interesting unique product for an investor looking into junk bonds, it is hard to get excited about the rest of BMO's new ETFs — iShares CDN Short Bond Index ETF (XSB) already provides exposure to short - term bonds and Claymore has the sector ETFs covered.

Meanwhile, adding exposure to international investments can help savings weather downturns in the U.S. markets, and high - yield bonds can provide an alternative to investment - grade corporate bonds.

BMO High Yield US Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD ETF (Ticker: ZHY; MER: 0.65 %) tracks the performance of the US high yield corporate bond market and hedges its US dollar Corporate Bond Hedged to CAD ETF (Ticker: ZHY; MER: 0.65 %) tracks the performance of the US high yield corporate bond market and hedges its US dollar exposBond Hedged to CAD ETF (Ticker: ZHY; MER: 0.65 %) tracks the performance of the US high yield corporate bond market and hedges its US dollar corporate bond market and hedges its US dollar exposbond market and hedges its US dollar exposure.

For those okay with more risk and volatility who want ETF exposure to the corporate bonds, take a look at the Powershares High - Yield Corporate Bond ETF under sycorporate bonds, take a look at the Powershares High - Yield Corporate Bond ETF under syCorporate Bond ETF under symbol PHB.

Fund also provides exposure to high - yield corporate bonds, which may increase risk and return potential.

Do that, and you'll gain exposure to virtually every type of publicly traded stock in the world (large and small, growth and value, domestic and foreign, all industries and sectors) as well as the entire U.S. investment - grade taxable bond market (short - to long - term maturities, corporates, Treasuries and mortgage - backed issues).

One way to do that is by assembling a group of individual funds or ETFs each of which provides exposure to a specific asset class — large - company stocks, small shares, government and corporate bonds, etc..

When I was a corporate bond manager, I sold all of my inherited GM exposure at significantly over par in 2001 (spreads were under 200 bp).

«So to postpone the impact of any increase as long as possible, we've shifted some of our long bond exposure to U.S. investment - grade corporate bonds offering decent yields.»