Not exact matches
For example, Fidelity will allow you to search both investment
grade and junk
bonds, show you the number of
bonds available at both the bid and ask price, and will even allow you to submit a limit order (although you can not put in a good until cancelled order or one that is more than a small amount away from the current bid / ask).
Issuance of investment -
grade corporate
bonds picked up in early March in a receptive market, as investors sought higher yields than were
available on safe - haven Treasury
bonds.
The DRS has had more downside risk than traditional investment -
grade bonds, but with the lack of yield
available in fixed income, an increasing number of investors are open to the idea of an allocation to «alternative fixed income.»
The Markit iBoxx ® $ Liquid Investment
Grade Index is a modified market - value weighted index designed to provide a balanced representation of U.S. dollar - denominated investment
grade corporate
bonds publicly offered in the United States by means of including the most liquid investment
grade corporate
bonds available as determined by the index provider.
At first, only four iShares
bond ETFs were
available, with just a small amount of assets and access limited to Treasuries and U.S. investment
grade credit.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We are intentionally adding foreign currency risk here; do not consider a high - yield (low credit
grade), a dollar - hedged foreign, or an emerging markets
bond fund if BWX isn't
available to you.
Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to
bonds, underscores the widely held view in the
bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it
available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment -
grade bonds (green), high - yield
bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).