Sentences with phrase «grade bond index»

Heavily composed of investment grade bonds the index has recorded a positive return of 0.65 % year - to - date and a weighted average yield of 3.3 %

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The index covers the U.S. investment grade fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass - through securities, and asset - backed securities.

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 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 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.

Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a broad - based, market - value - weighted benchmark that measures the performance of the U.S.dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable bond marBond Index is a broad - based, market - value - weighted benchmark that measures the performance of the U.S.dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable bond marbond market.

Last week, spreads on the Morningstar Corporate Bond Index, an investment - grade corporate bond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index, shot higBond Index, an investment - grade corporate bond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index, shot higbond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index, shot higher.

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Investment - grade bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays investment - grade Index, consisting of publicly issued, fixed rate, non-convertible investment grade debt securities.

The index contains treasury bonds, government - related bonds, investment - grade corporate bonds, mortgage - backed securities, and asset - backed securities.

Their data set included constituents of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch investment - grade (US Corporate Master Index) and high - yield (US High Yield Master Index) bond indexes, and covers the period January 1997 through December 2016.

The PowerShares BulletShares 2023 Corporate Bond ETF tracks an index of investment - grade 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 in 2Bond ETF tracks a market - value - weighted, USD - denominated, investment - grade corporate bond index with effective maturities in 2bond 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 in 2019.

According to Bloomberg data on the S&P AMT - Free National Municipal Bond Index, munis returned 3.3 percent in 2015, beating taxable investment grade bonds.

BarCap Aggregate Bond Index - A broad - based benchmark that measures the investment grade, U.S. dollar - donminated, fixed - rate taxable bond market, including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and CBond Index - A broad - based benchmark that measures the investment grade, U.S. dollar - donminated, fixed - rate taxable bond market, including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and Cbond market, including Treasuries, government - rated and corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed - rate and hybrid ARM pass - throughs), ABS, and CMBS.

The Barclays U.S. Credit Index is the credit component of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matuIndex is the credit component of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to maturBond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matuIndex, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to maturbond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matuindex comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to maturity.

The Bloomberg Barclay's High Yield Municipal Bond Index tracks consists of below - investment grade municipal bonds.

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 oIndex 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 oindex 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.

The Bloomberg Barclays High - Yield Bond Index is an unmanaged index of corporate bonds rated below investment grade by Moody's, S&P or Fitch Investor SerIndex is an unmanaged index of corporate bonds rated below investment grade by Moody's, S&P or Fitch Investor Serindex of corporate bonds rated below investment grade by Moody's, S&P or Fitch Investor Service.

CIU launched last January along with CFT and another purely investment - grade corporate ETF, the iShares Lehman 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond Index (NYSE: CSJ).

The sentiment stands in contrast to what Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes showed as the «steepest first - quarter losses on U.S. investment - grade company bonds since 1996.»

Investment grade municipal bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index have seen a negative total return of 4.97 % in June so far, the worst month since September 2008 when the index was down 5.Index have seen a negative total return of 4.97 % in June so far, the worst month since September 2008 when the index was down 5.index was down 5.13 %.

The WisdomTree Barclays Negative Duration U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund tracks a long / short net -5 duration bond index that's long US investment - grade issues and short Treasury futuBond Fund tracks a long / short net -5 duration bond index that's long US investment - grade issues and short Treasury futubond index that's long US investment - grade issues and short Treasury futures.

The Guggenheim BulletShares 2015 Corporate Bond ETF tracks an index of investment grade corporate bonds with effective maturities in 2015.

CNH is now rated investment grade by two of the three ratings agencies, making its bonds eligible for investment - grade indexes, which will lead to lower spreads.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment - grade fixed - income securiIndex is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment - grade fixed - income securiindex of U.S. investment - grade fixed - income securities.

Out of the almost 5K investment - grade bonds issued by S&P 500 companies, the tracked index for the ProShares S&P 500 Bond ETF (SPXB) selects up to 1K...

For example, investors seeking exposure to investment grade bonds know that an index investment grade bond ETF will only hold these bonds, and won't dip into high yield securities.

By investing in a total U.S. stock market and total U.S. bond market index fund, you'll own a piece of virtually all publicly traded U.S. companies and a share of the entire investment - grade bond market.

According to Bloomberg, as of June 15, 2016, more than 60 % of the issuers in the iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Index are rated investment grade.

By comparison the investment grade tax - free muni market tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index is up 2.98 %.

The Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond 10 - Year Index is an unmanaged index that is considered representative of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt bonds with a maturity of at least 10 yIndex is an unmanaged index that is considered representative of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt bonds with a maturity of at least 10 yindex that is considered representative of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt bonds with a maturity of at least 10 years.

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 InBond 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 Inbond market tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond InBond Index.

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 800 billion.

The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High - Yield Bond Index is an unmanaged broad - based market - value - weighted index that tracks the total return performance of non-investment grade, fixed - rate, publicly placed, dollar denominated and nonconvertible debt registered with the Securities and Exchange CommisIndex is an unmanaged broad - based market - value - weighted index that tracks the total return performance of non-investment grade, fixed - rate, publicly placed, dollar denominated and nonconvertible debt registered with the Securities and Exchange Commisindex that tracks the total return performance of non-investment grade, fixed - rate, publicly placed, dollar denominated and nonconvertible debt registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

In the case of stocks, a good example is a total U.S. stock market index fund or ETF, which gives you virtually all domestic publicly traded stocks, while a total U.S. bond market index fund or ETF would essentially give you the entire taxable investment - grade bond market.

Investment grade bonds as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index turned it up a notch as the index's yield tightened by 9 basis points on the week to a 2.Index turned it up a notch as the index's yield tightened by 9 basis points on the week to a 2.index's yield tightened by 9 basis points on the week to a 2.76 %.

As of January 2017, the investment grade corporate bond index bears the highest duration of 6.9, while the two high yield indices have much shorter durations of approximately 4.2.

The index covers the U.S. investment grade fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass - through securities, and asset - backed securities.

The iShares Canadian Universe Bond Index ETF (XBB), which tracks the overall Canadian investment - grade bond market, has a duration of Bond Index ETF (XBB), which tracks the overall Canadian investment - grade bond market, has a duration of bond market, has a duration of 6.9.

The Aggregate (often abbreviated Agg), which is historically the most popular index, more or less includes all bonds in the Universal rated investment grade.

Note: Under S&P Dow Jones Indices methodology, the lowest rating determines if the bonds remain in the investment grade indices or are shifted to the high yield caIndices methodology, the lowest rating determines if the bonds remain in the investment grade indices or are shifted to the high yield caindices or are shifted to the high yield category.

The S&P US Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index is comprised of US corporations issuing investment grade bonds in US dollars.

The back - tested results of the 17 - year period ending Feb. 28, 2017, show that the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficieBond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficiebond sectors, with increased return efficiency.

For example, the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBTLX) holds more than 5,000 domestic investment - grade bonds.

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The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment - grade fixed income securiIndex is an unmanaged index of U.S. investment - grade fixed income securiindex of U.S. investment - grade fixed income securities.

4 The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Investment Grade Bond Index covers all publicly issued, fixed rate, nonconvertible, and investment grade debt.