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Corporate investment grade issuance is already more than $ 90 billion for the month to date, and this week's activity pushed 2014 issuance to a record $ 1.039 trillion so far, surpassing 2013's total of $ 1.036 trillion, according to Thomson Reuters IFR.

A bond ladder involves buying a series of individual securities (typically treasury bonds, municipal bonds, investment grade corporate bonds or even CD's) across a variety of maturity dates.

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 Binvestment 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 Binvestment grade corporate bond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bocorporate bond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate BInvestment Grade Corporate BoCorporate Bond Index.

While traditional target - date funds use a mix of equities and fixed - income, the new BMO ETFs use only investment - grade corporate bonds, gradually shortening the maturities as the target date approaches.

Starting with the investment grade BBB ratings category, municipal bonds have had a return of nearly 3.5 % year - to - date while the large entities tracked in the S&P 500 BBB Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has recorded a negatiinvestment grade BBB ratings category, municipal bonds have had a return of nearly 3.5 % year - to - date while the large entities tracked in the S&P 500 BBB Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has recorded a negatiInvestment Grade Corporate Bond Index has recorded a negative 0.46 %.

These three ETFs carry low risks but potentially high rewards Simon Maierhofer on the contrarian nature of consumer staples, long - dated Treasuries and investment - grade corporate bondsSimon Maierhofer on the contrarian nature of consumer staples, long - dated Treasuries and investment - grade corporate bonds.

Guggenheim, for example, offers 20 investment - grade and high - yield corporate bond target - maturity - date ETFs under its BulletShares brand, with maturities at different years (2017, 2018 and so on); iShares offers 17 target - maturity - date bond ETFs.

After lagging the year - to - date total return of investment grade corporates, the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index surpassed its investment grade counterpart by closing the week with a return of 4.89 % YTD.

The S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index is up 1.26 % year to date modestly outperforming investment grade corporate bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index which has returned just investment grade corporate bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index which has returned just ucorporate bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index which has returned just Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index which has returned just uCorporate Bond Index which has returned just under 1 %.

The investment grade U.S. corporate bond market tracked in the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has had a modest negative return of 0.29 % month - to - date so Apple bonds appear to be moving in line with the rest of the boinvestment grade U.S. corporate bond market tracked in the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has had a modest negative return of 0.29 % month - to - date so Apple bonds appear to be moving in line with the rest of the boncorporate bond market tracked in the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has had a modest negative return of 0.29 % month - to - date so Apple bonds appear to be moving in line with the rest of the boInvestment Grade Corporate Bond Index has had a modest negative return of 0.29 % month - to - date so Apple bonds appear to be moving in line with the rest of the bonCorporate Bond Index has had a modest negative return of 0.29 % month - to - date so Apple bonds appear to be moving in line with the rest of the bond market.

Investment grade corporates as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index performed very well as the index returned 1.36 % for the month and has returned 5.49 % year - to - date.

At mid-month, the year - to - date total return of investment grade corporates was at 8.02 % but has dropped down to its current 7.03 % with the slight move up in yield.

Last week investment grade bonds as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, added a positive 0.18 % of total return and has now returned 0.27 % on the month and 5.87 % year - investment grade bonds as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, added a positive 0.18 % of total return and has now returned 0.27 % on the month and 5.87 % year - Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, added a positive 0.18 % of total return and has now returned 0.27 % on the month and 5.87 % year - to - date.

The premium paid on CMBS rated BBB -, the lowest investment - grade level before junk, has tumbled 105 basis points over the last month, more than 10 times the spread compression of investment - grade corporate bonds, Edward Reardon and Simon Mui wrote in a note dated Aug. 2.