Investment
grade bonds contain «AAA» to «BBB - «(or Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrease.
Investment
grade bonds contain «AAA» to «BBB - «(or Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrease.
Not exact matches
Each account will
contain investment -
grade taxable
bonds rated BBB − or higher at time of purchase.2 The investment team will seek to maintain an overall portfolio credit rating average of A −.2 Please be aware that lower rated
bonds do carry additional risk compared to higher rated
bonds.
The index
contains treasury
bonds, government - related
bonds, investment -
grade corporate
bonds, mortgage - backed securities, and asset - backed securities.
As a result, I've shifted to XBB (or VAB) which
contains a mix of short, medium and long - term
bonds, all investment
grade.
Both the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal
Bond Index and Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate
Bond Index
contain investment
grade bonds, but corporate
bonds» income is subject to income taxes.
With that being said, HYMB targets
bonds that are rated below investment
grade and thus
contains issues that have a much higher chance of default.