Sentences with phrase «corporate investment grade debt»

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The trio of ETFs, when they launch, will round out Franklin's bond ETF lineup, which already includes a variety of actively managed fixed - income funds covering short - duration U.S. government debt, municipal bonds and the investment - grade corporate debt.

Our team of credit professionals deliver sales and trading capabilities across a wide range of fixed income asset classes including high yield, distressed and investment grade bonds, convertible bonds, public and private corporate securities, leveraged loans and emerging market debt.

The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a market value — weighted index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with maturities of one year or more.

The iShares Intermediate Credit Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated investment grade corporate, sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency debt with maturities between 1 - 10 years.

Represents the corporate and government - related sectors of Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index (which provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade debt.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

Such strategies involve investing predominantly in corporate credit, including senior secured and mezzanine loans and high yield, distressed and high grade debt securities, private equity controlled positions, real estate investment and investment in pools of non-performing loans in Europe and Asia.

Emerging markets corporate debt is a maturing asset class of which around 60 % is rated investment grade.

Although the largesse is restricted to blue - chip eurozone companies such as food producer Danone or telecoms giant Telefónica, ECB - injected liquidity has spilled into the rest of the market, paring average interest rates on investment - grade corporate debt by some 30 basis points to an even 1 %, Deloitte estimates.

The rotation from long to short term is much more pronounced when it comes to funds dedicated to investment grade corporate debt.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

Sales volume for new investment - grade corporate debt is at its lowest level since 2014.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

We see investment - grade corporate debt as attractive in a world hungry for yield.

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 order.

Given the introduction of several new ECB policies yesterday (expanded QE; purchases of nonfinancial, investment grade corporate debt; new refinancing programs; incentives to reduce the impact of negative interest rates on banks and spur lending) we think the outlook for European credit and equities is quite constructive.

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.

Hartford Funds» new ETF joins two other already listed active fixed income ETFs sub-advised by Wellington (Hartford Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: HCOR), an ETF focused on investment - grade corporate bonds, and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (NYSE: HQBD), a core bond ETF focused on investment grade debt, including mortgage - backed securities and US government secCorporate Bond ETF (NYSE: HCOR), an ETF focused on investment - grade corporate bonds, and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (NYSE: HQBD), a core bond ETF focused on investment grade debt, including mortgage - backed securities and US government seccorporate bonds, and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (NYSE: HQBD), a core bond ETF focused on investment grade debt, including mortgage - backed securities and US government securities).

Global investment - grade corporate debt totaled $ 2.7 trillion last year, an increase of 15 % from 2011 and an all - time record.

Investment grade corporate bonds and emerging market debt have benefited from this trend for most of 2016.

The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Index is a market - weighted index of investment - grade corporate fixed - rate debt issues with maturities of one yearCorporate Index is a market - weighted index of investment - grade corporate fixed - rate debt issues with maturities of one yearcorporate fixed - rate debt issues with maturities of one year or more.

The par amount outstanding of investment - grade corporate debt, as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, has increased over USD 4 trillion since September 2007, while the amount of speculative - grade outstanding, as measured by the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 80investment - grade corporate debt, as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, has increased over USD 4 trillion since September 2007, while the amount of speculative - grade outstanding, as measured by the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 800corporate debt, as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, has increased over USD 4 trillion since September 2007, while the amount of speculative - grade outstanding, as measured by the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 80Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, has increased over USD 4 trillion since September 2007, while the amount of speculative - grade outstanding, as measured by the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 800Corporate Bond Index, has increased over USD 4 trillion since September 2007, while the amount of speculative - grade outstanding, as measured by the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 800Corporate Bond Index, has increased by USD 800 billion.

The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Investment Grade Bond Index covers all publicly issued, fixed rate, nonconvertible, invest ¬ ment grade debt.

None of the long term problems that the market faces have changed, but neither has the relatively low yields of investment grade corporate debt.

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The index will rank U.S. Treasuries, U.S. investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. investment grade mortgage backed securities, U.S. high yield debt and U.S. dollar denominated debt of emerging market issuer according to their momentum / trend scores.

Looking both within and outside of the benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.

Investment grade corporate bonds typically offer better return potential than Treasury bonds, and investment grade debt allows investors to pursue those returns without adding as much risk as high yiInvestment grade corporate bonds typically offer better return potential than Treasury bonds, and investment grade debt allows investors to pursue those returns without adding as much risk as high yiinvestment grade debt allows investors to pursue those returns without adding as much risk as high yield bonds.

This actively managed portfolio will be comprised primarily of investment grade preferred shares and to a lesser extent investment grade corporate debt and convertible bonds.

Dividend yields in utility companies are on par with investment grade corporate debt yields.

The strategy can also invest in global governments, government agencies, supranational issuers, below investment grade and emerging market corporate debt.

Investment - grade corporate debt offers higher yields than long - end Treasuries at less than half the volatility, our analysis shows.

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.

Fund investors padded the coffers of corporate investment - grade debt funds (+ $ 822 million) and international & global debt funds (+ $ 985 million) but were net redeemers of high - yield funds -LRB-- $ 491 million) and government mortgage funds -LRB-- $ 226 million) for the week.

APs padded the coffers of corporate investment - grade debt ETFs (+ $ 1.2 billion net) and government - Treasury ETFs (+ $ 1.2 billion net) but were net redeemers of corporate high - yield ETFs -LRB-- $ 2.0 billion).

APs padded the coffers of corporate investment - grade debt ETFs (+ $ 2.7 billion net) and government - Treasury ETFs (+ $ 1.9 billion net).

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.

FAGIX's fixed income component primarily consists of below investment grade corporate debt, as well as small allocations to bank debt.

The BofA Merrill Lynch Index tracks the performance of U.S. dollar - denominated investment grade government and corporate public debt issued in the U.S. domestic bond market with at least 1 year and less than 10 years remaining maturity, including U.S. treasury, U.S. agency, foreign government, supranational and corporate securities.

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.

The strategy seeks to generate return by investing across the full maturity spectrum of investment grade US fixed income securities, including US Treasury, agency, securitized and corporate debt.

The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing primarily in fixed income securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills, Treasury inflation - protected securities, U.S. Treasury Strips, U.S. Government agency securities (primarily mortgage - backed securities), and investment grade corporate debt rated BBB or higher by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings or Baa or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or having an equivalent rating from another independent rating organization.

Corporate bonds are considered to be riskier than government bonds because the investment grade rating of corporate bonds varies depending on the debt issuance and revenue of theCorporate bonds are considered to be riskier than government bonds because the investment grade rating of corporate bonds varies depending on the debt issuance and revenue of thecorporate bonds varies depending on the debt issuance and revenue of the company.

Indeed, the rest of the world's central banks are purchasing assets (e.g., government debt, investment grade corporate bonds, higher - yielding junk corporates, stocks, etc.) with QE «funny money» in the hopes that it will boost economic growth.

Corporate bonds ETFs invest in debt issued by corporations with investment - grade credit ratings.

At least 75 % of the preferred shares and corporate debt in the ETF's portfolio shall be rated investment - grade at the end of every reporting period, which occurs June 30 and Dec. 31.

It will consist primarily of investment - grade preferred shares and, to a lesser extent, investment - grade corporate debt and convertible bonds.

Fund investors padded the coffers of corporate investment - grade debt funds (+ $ 2.2 billion) and flexible funds (+ $ 318 million).

Consider the preference investors have shown for investment grade government debt over comparable high - yielding corporate bonds.

With a portfolio composed of investment - grade debt from corporate, sovereign and supranational issuers with three - year maximum maturities, the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: CSJ) aims to offer a higher distribution yield than comparable all - Treasury funds, but it does have a marginally higher credit risk.