To do that, you need to look at
corporate bond funds with a similar duration, which is a measure of sensitivity to interest rate risk.
So then there must be a risk of so many defaults that the yield drops below that of an investment -
grade corporate bond fund.
In other words, it's not clear that this fund is a better or worse diversifier than a high -
yield corporate bond fund for a typical U.S. investor.
It is 1.35 % p.a for Life Equity Fund 3, Life Pure Equity Fund 2, Life Infrastructure Fund 2, Life Midcap Fund 2, & Life Energy Fund 2, 1.25 % p.a for
Life Corporate Bond Fund 1, Life Gilt Fund 1, Life Money Market Fund 1, & Life Balanced Fund 1.
Some of the funds gaining the most inflows since earlier this month include the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK A +) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment
Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD A --RRB-.
Kotak Corporate Bond Fund NAV as on April 30, 2018: Rs2289.7308 (Regular Plan - Growth Option), Rs1047.3356 (Regular Plan - Monthly Dividend), Rs2335.9466 (Direct Plan - Growth Option), Rs1100.9351 (Direct Plan - Monthly Dividend)
The Lipper Award for Best Bond Group Overall was based on risk - adjusted performance for the following Canoe Financial Funds: Canoe Global Income Class, Canoe Global Income Fund, Canoe
Canadian Corporate Bond Fund, Canoe Bond Advantage Class, Canoe Bond Advantage Fund, Canoe Floating Rate Income Fund, Canoe Strategic High Yield Fund, and Canoe Strategic High Yield Class.
For example, you can
buy corporate bond funds, US Treasury funds, or municipal bond funds (which invest in bonds issued by state and local governments).
HSBC Mortgage Fund HSBC Canadian Bond Fund HSBC Emerging Markets Debt Fund HSBC Monthly Income Fund HSBC U.S. Dollar Monthly Income Fund HSBC Global Corporate Bond Fund
We are pleased to announce that Sparinvest SICAV — Investment Grade Value Bonds EUR R has been awarded a Morningstar International Fund Award in The Netherlands in the category «Best
EUR Corporate Bond Fund».
American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF is an actively -
managed corporate bond fund designed for investors seeking current income.
That estimate (not for Wal - Mart but for bonds in general in the current recession) was given to me about a week and a half ago by the
head corporate bond fund manager of Vanguard.
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.
Also, don't forget that a variety of alternative things exist that you can buy from a broker, such as an S&P 500 index fund or exchange -
traded corporate bond fund; these will earn you some reward over time with significantly less risk.
Performance for Class A units of
Renaissance Corporate Bond Fund and the number of mutual funds in the Fund's Canadian Fixed Income category for the period ended December 31, 2017 is as follows: 3.1 %, 582 funds (1 year), 2.7 %, 463 funds (3 years), 2.7 %, 373 funds (5 years) and 3.7 %, n / a (since inception November 18, 2009).
So, for those looking for a high - risk bond fund to act as a potential diversifier, how does this fund compare to a high - yield
U.S. corporate bond fund?
Vanguard's long - term Treasury fund fell 13 % that year, its inflation - indexed bond fund slumped 8.9 % and its long - term
corporate bond fund slid 5.9 %.
Effective March 31, 2015, MFS Research Bond Fund will change to MFS ® Total Return Bond Fund and MFS Bond Fund will change to MFS
® Corporate Bond Fund.
Prior to that, Andy spent six years as a Senior Fixed Income Manager at AXA Investment Managers, where he focused primarily
on corporate bond funds and was the lead manager for segregated third - party institutional corporate bond mandates, both traditional and liability benchmarked.
He believes that equities are currently volatile and hence, decides to invest in a relatively safe investment, under
Life Corporate Bond Fund 1 (Debt oriented fund with low to moderate risk).
The Vanguard High
Yield Corporate Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return of 0.5 percent in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.
With corporate bonds, you can moderate some of the higher default risks by investing
in corporate bond funds, rather than trying to select individual and potentially more risky individual corporate bonds.
How to do it: Some of the best short - term bond funds are iBoxx $ Investment
Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD), which is a highly - liquid ETF filled to the brim with high - quality debt issues.
-- Five ETFs are launching today, including four
corporate bond funds from iShares and one multi-asset class «alternative» strategy from PowerShares aimed at better minimizing the effects of market volatility.
«These are the only pure investment -
grade corporate bond funds we've seen so far on the market,» said Romey, the portfolio manager.