Retail investors turned net redeemers
from Emerging Markets Bond Funds going into the final week of April, and Frontier Markets Bond Funds posted their first outflow since mid-December as fears of a more rapid pace for U.S. interest rate hikes cooled appetites for this asset class.
-- Emerging market bonds are in a rout as investors yanked $ 2.5 billion
from emerging market bond funds last week.
Not exact matches
Emerging markets - focused
bond mutual and ETF
funds have only increased their assets by 1.72 percent in 2014, according to data
from Morningstar, and manage just $ 86 billion.
With dollar weakness complicating the investment case for U.S. fixed income assets, flows to U.S.
Bond Funds were close to neutral going into March as investors pulled back
from all the major groups except
Emerging Markets Hard Currency
Bond Funds...
Would you've guessed we'd have everything
from a plain - vanilla
bond fund (the Vanguard Total Market Bond ETF (BND)-RRB- to a bespoke approach to China that removes the influence of central planning (the WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (XS
bond fund (the Vanguard Total Market Bond ETF (BND)-RRB- to a bespoke approach to China that removes the influence of central planning (the WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (XS
fund (the Vanguard Total
Market Bond ETF (BND)-RRB- to a bespoke approach to China that removes the influence of central planning (the WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (XS
Bond ETF (BND)-RRB- to a bespoke approach to China that removes the influence of central planning (the WisdomTree
Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises
Fund (XS
Fund (XSOE)?
The
fund seeks to achieve this by leveraging BlackRock's global capabilities to strategically gain exposure to thousands of investment - grade and high - yield
bonds from Canada, the U.S., Europe and
emerging markets.
They often include instruments such as high yield,
emerging market debt and other more esoteric instruments that tend to be missing
from traditional
bond funds.
There are well over a thousand mutual
funds to choose
from and they represent a full range of industries and companies,
from value or growth stocks, small cap or large cap companies, to domestic or
emerging markets, to
bonds and various cash equivalents.
Emerging markets bond funds focus on investing in debt
from faster growing developing countries.
The holdings of
emerging market bond funds typically range
from relatively low risk BB +
bonds (one notch lower than investment grade) to high - risk C issues.