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.
Not exact matches
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.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility
in the equity and
bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration,
corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japan's Leading
Index and Machine Tool Orders, German IFO, US Case - Shiller Home Price
Index, New Home Sales, Richmond Fed and Consumer Confidence for near term guidance.
Investors should also find ample liquidity
in the PIMCO Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index ETF (CORP), with $ 6.53 M
in daily dollar volume.
I'll probably do 40 %
in government
bonds, 25 %
corporate bonds, 25 % S&P
index and 10 %
in a dividend stock
index and expect closer to 4 - 5 % annual returns.
1: Widening credit spreads: An increase over the past 6 months
in either the spread between commercial paper and 3 - month Treasury yields, or between the Dow
Corporate Bond Index yield and 10 - year Treasury yields.
Issuers from the
Corporate sector represent for example 32 % of the green
bond universe vs 18 %
in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate
Index.
The PowerShares BulletShares 2023
Corporate Bond ETF tracks an index of investment - grade corporate bonds with effective maturities
Corporate Bond ETF tracks an
index of investment - grade
corporate bonds with effective maturities
corporate bonds with effective maturities
in 2023.
PowerShares BulletShares 2022
Corporate Bond ETF tracks a market - value - weighted, USD - denominated, investment - grade corporate bond index with effective maturities
Corporate Bond ETF tracks a market - value - weighted, USD - denominated, investment - grade corporate bond index with effective maturities in 2
Bond ETF tracks a market - value - weighted, USD - denominated, investment - grade
corporate bond index with effective maturities
corporate bond index with effective maturities in 2
bond index with effective maturities
in 2022.
The PowerShares BulletShares 2019
Corporate Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated corporate investment - grade bonds with effective maturities
Corporate Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted
index of USD - denominated
corporate investment - grade bonds with effective maturities
corporate investment - grade
bonds with effective maturities
in 2019.
Currently, the fund's Treasury stake is much lower than what is stuffed
in its benchmark
index, and it owns a lot more American
corporate bonds.
Those outflows showed up
in returns data, with a Bloomberg Barclay's
Index of U.S.
corporate bonds posting a 2.3 per cent loss for the first three months of the year.
He also noted that it is a very poor time to buy
corporate bonds (high yield
bond index yield 4.93 %) and Gundlach sees a negative return for the S&P
in 2018 as the rates rout eventually gives the equity market the yips.
Bloomberg's Global Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index sank by 4 % last year to a trough
in early November, then stabilized as high - yield cratered further.
An alternative to investing
in individual
corporate bonds is to invest
in a professionally managed
bond fund or an
index - pegged fund, which is a passive fund tied to the average price of a «basket» of
bonds.
Personally, I'd prefer a heftier
index - linked gilt allocation (it maxes out at 30 % of the
bond allocation), no
corporate or global
bonds and more emerging market equities
in my mix.
The Bloomberg Barclays Long - Term Government /
Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that includes fixed - rate debt issues rated investment grade or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation, or Fitch Investor's Service, in o
Index is an unmanaged
index that includes fixed - rate debt issues rated investment grade or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation, or Fitch Investor's Service, in o
index that includes fixed - rate debt issues rated investment grade or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation, or Fitch Investor's Service,
in order.
In 2015, munis, as represented by the Barclays Municipal
Bond Index, were actually the top fixed - income asset class, beating both Treasuries and
corporate debt.
Abstracting from changes
in the composition of
corporate bond indices, spreads between yields on government and
corporate bonds have shown a small net decline over the past three months (Graph 48).
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility
in the equity and
bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration,
corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's Commitment of Traders Report, followed by reports Monday on Chinese PMI, German CPI and Retail Sales, US Personal Income, Personal Spending, PCE, Chicago PMI, Pending Home Sales, and the Dallas Fed's Manufacturing
Index for near term direction.
In the second quarter so far, the S&P 500 Energy Index (equity) has returned over 9.1 % in total return and the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index has returned over 7.3
In the second quarter so far, the S&P 500 Energy
Index (equity) has returned over 9.1 %
in total return and the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index has returned over 7.3
in total return and the S&P 500 Energy
Corporate Bond Index has returned over 7.3 %.
The Guggenheim BulletShares 2015
Corporate Bond ETF tracks an index of investment grade corporate bonds with effective maturities
Corporate Bond ETF tracks an
index of investment grade
corporate bonds with effective maturities
corporate bonds with effective maturities
in 2015.
IFIX tracks the Barclays Global Aggregate
Corporate Ex USD
Bond Index (USD Hedged), which covers 3,450
bonds denominated
in 18 different currencies from 732 different issuers
in developed and emerging markets.
The graph below charts yield to worst of
bonds in the S&P Municipal
Bond Puerto Rico General Obligation
Index vs. the yield to worst of
bonds in the S&P U.S. Issued CCC & Lower High Yield
Corporate Bond Index.
As we near the end of the first quarter, investment grade tax - exempt
bonds tracked
in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have returned 0.93 % year - to - date underperforming relative to the over 2 % return of the investment grade corporate bond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond In
Bond Index have returned 0.93 % year - to - date underperforming relative to the over 2 % return of the investment grade
corporate bond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bo
corporate bond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond In
bond market tracked
in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade
Corporate Bo
Corporate Bond In
Bond Index.
The S&P 500 High Yield
Corporate Bond Index performance behaved similarly returning 3.43 % for March, which was the index's largest return since a 3.86 % return in October,
Index performance behaved similarly returning 3.43 % for March, which was the
index's largest return since a 3.86 % return in October,
index's largest return since a 3.86 % return
in October, 2011.
The S&P 500
Bond Index has returned a modestly negative total return of -0.31 % year - to - date while the energy bond sector tracked in the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index is down 5.79 % year - to - d
Bond Index has returned a modestly negative total return of -0.31 % year - to - date while the energy
bond sector tracked in the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index is down 5.79 % year - to - d
bond sector tracked
in the S&P 500 Energy
Corporate Bond Index is down 5.79 % year - to - d
Bond Index is down 5.79 % year - to - date.
The S&P 500 Energy
Corporate Bond Index, tracking over $ 255billion
in debt, is down over 6 % year - to - date while the overall S&P 500
Bond Index remains
in positive territory.
The S&P Pan Asia
Corporate Bond Index rose 2.54 %
in the same period, outperforming the S&P Pan Asia Government Read more -LSB-...]
The S&P 500 High Yield
Corporate Bond Index tracks the junk bonds of issuers of the S&P 500 and as the yields indicate, on average, they tend to be better quality than the bonds in the broader i
Index tracks the junk
bonds of issuers of the S&P 500 and as the yields indicate, on average, they tend to be better quality than the
bonds in the broader
indexindex.
Reversing the trend seen
in 2015, the S&P Pan Asia Government
Bond Index was down by 1.33 %
in 2016, still outperforming the S&P Pan Asia
Corporate Bond Index, which fell 3.11 % over the same period.
Corporate bonds of the issuers
in the S&P 500 are tracked
in the S&P 500
Bond Index.
The
bonds of larger entities tracked
in the S&P 500 High Yield
Corporate Bond Index have returned 15.57 % year - to - date modestly out performing the broader S&P U.S. High Yield
Corporate Bond Index.
As you can see
in Steady as she goes above, the DEX Universe
Bond Index, which includes Canadian government and
corporate bonds, had just two negative years
in the last three decades (1994 and 1999), while averaging returns of about 9.9 % a year.
The average yield of
bonds in the S&P 500 7 - 10 Year Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index has fallen by 94bps since year end as the yield thirsty market place has hunted yield oriented products.
The S&P US Issued Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index is comprised of US corporations issuing investment grade
bonds in US dollars.
As Figure 1 shows, the Bloomberg Barclays US
Corporate High Yield
Bond Index posted positive returns during rising - rate periods, averaging a return of 8.86 % while the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate
Bond Index was almost entirely
in the red with an average return of -1.41 %.
The S&P International
Corporate Bond Index is comprised of non-U.S. investment grade corporate issuers and is calculated in US
Corporate Bond Index is comprised of non-U.S. investment grade
corporate issuers and is calculated in US
corporate issuers and is calculated
in US dollars.
In response to the most recent events, the Under Armour
bond has been downgraded to BB + and will be moved out of the investment - grade index and into the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the index ru
bond has been downgraded to BB + and will be moved out of the investment - grade
index and into the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the index r
index and into the S&P 500 High Yield
Corporate Bond Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the index ru
Bond Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the index r
Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the
index r
index rules.
The average yield of
bonds in the S&P 500 7 - 10 Year Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index has fallen by 94bps Read more -LSB-...]
Let's compare the liquidity data of the
bonds in the S&P 500 Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index to the broader S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade
Bond Index.
As of Feb. 9, 2017, Under Armour holds a 0.014 % weight
in the S&P 500 Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index, and the apparel, accessories & luxury goods industry subsector consists of a 0.08 % weight.
I compared two
corporate bond indices: The S&P International Corporate Bond Index and the S&P US Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective
corporate bond indices: The S&P International Corporate Bond Index and the S&P US Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective mark
bond indices: The S&P International
Corporate Bond Index and the S&P US Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective
Corporate Bond Index and the S&P US Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective mark
Bond Index and the S&P US Issued Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective
Corporate Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face in their respective mark
Bond Index to determine what performance risks both face
in their respective markets.
The S&P 500 Investment Grade
Corporate Bond Index provides a view of the performance of corporate bonds issued by the blue chip companies in the iconic S&P 500 Index, other index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bo
Corporate Bond Index provides a view of the performance of corporate bonds issued by the blue chip companies in the iconic S&P 500 Index, other index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bond in
Bond Index provides a view of the performance of corporate bonds issued by the blue chip companies in the iconic S&P 500 Index, other index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bond i
Index provides a view of the performance of
corporate bonds issued by the blue chip companies in the iconic S&P 500 Index, other index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bo
corporate bonds issued by the blue chip companies
in the iconic S&P 500
Index, other index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bond i
Index, other
index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader corporate bond i
index inclusion criteria including par amount minimums are the same as the broader
corporate bo
corporate bond in
bond indexindex.
Over the same period, 96 % of the
bonds in the
index traded at least once each month versus the U.S. IG
corporate bonds excluding the S&P 500 at 88 % (see Exhibit 2).
As expected, the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility
Corporate Bond Index sat between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors in the volatility spect
Bond Index sat between the high - yield and investment - grade
bond sectors in the volatility spect
bond sectors
in the volatility spectrum.
As tracked by the S&P Japan
Bond Index, a broad base benchmark that measures the performance of the government and
corporate local currency
bonds in Japan, the total outstanding par amount have reached over 1,070 trillion Yen this August.
The March rebalancing of the S&P U.S. Distressed High Yield
Corporate Bond Index saw another increase
in the number of qualifying constituents.
Let's take a look at the performance relationships between the stocks and the
bonds by using the S&P 500 Energy Total Return and the S&P 500 Energy
Corporate Bond Index Total Return to see how the market views the equity risk premium, or in other words how strongly the market believes oil stocks will rise (equity performance) or fall (bond performan
Bond Index Total Return to see how the market views the equity risk premium, or
in other words how strongly the market believes oil stocks will rise (equity performance) or fall (
bond performan
bond performance.)
Unlike Treasuries and investment grade
corporates, the high yield market as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield
Corporate Bond Index touch a low point for yield earlier
in the month at a 5.87 % on October 6th.