Investment
grade bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index have seen yield drop by 33bps this year to end at 2.78 %.
Not exact matches
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.
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 2
Bond ETF
tracks a market - value - weighted, USD - denominated, investment -
grade corporate
bond index with effective maturities in 2
bond 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.
The Bloomberg Barclay's High Yield Municipal
Bond Index
tracks consists of below - investment
grade municipal
bonds.
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 5.13 %.
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 futu
Bond Fund
tracks a long / short net -5 duration
bond index that's long US investment - grade issues and short Treasury futu
bond 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.
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...
The second lowest cost
bond fund is the SCHZ ETF, a Charles Schwab
tracking the aggregate investment
grade bond universe with a price tag of.10 % per year.
This means investors are demanding over 50 % more on the notional cost of default insurance on the largest investment -
grade corporate
bonds tracked by the S&P 500 ®.
By comparison the investment
grade tax - free muni market
tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index is up 2.98 %.
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 In
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 In
bond market
tracked in the S&P U.S. Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond In
Bond Index.
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 Commission.
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.
For investment
grade corporate
bonds two indices
tracking these markets have very Read more -LSB-...]
Meanwhile, intermediate -
grade corporate
bonds tracked by Barron's began the year yielding 207 basis points above the 10 - year Treasury.
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 5.13 %.
The 19,000 tax - exempt municipal
bonds tracked in the S&P Municipal
Bond Infrastructure Index mainly consist of investment
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If you're looking for a single fund that covers the Canadian investment -
grade bond market, look for one that
tracks the DEX Universe.
PowerShares also has an ETF in the works that will
track a RAFI index of investment -
grade corporate
bonds.
For example, the CIBC Global
Bond Index Fund, the only one of its kind in Canada,
tracks the cap - weighted J.P. Morgan Global Government
Bond Index, which includes only investment -
grade bonds.
The Vanguard Canadian Aggregate
Bond Index ETF will
track an index of Canadian government and investment
grade corporate
bonds.
The Vanguard Canadian Short - Term
Bond ETF will
track an index of Canadian government and investment
grade corporate
bonds with maturities ranging from 1 to 5 years.
Coupon cash flow: Investment
grade, tax - exempt municipal
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have an average coupon of 4.61 % vs. the average coupon of 3.72 % of the
bonds in the S&P 500 / MarketAxess Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond Index.
Duration: Investment
grade corporate
bonds of the issuers of the S&P 500 Index are
tracked in the S&P 500 / MarketAxess Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond Index.
Ideally, you want to choose a combination of low - cost funds that will give you exposure to stocks of all types and styles (domestic, foreign, large, small, growth and value) as well as
bond funds that
track the broad investment -
grade bond market (government and corporate issues in a range of maturities).
The investment seeks to
track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of non-U.S. dollar - denominated investment -
grade bonds.
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 negative 0.46 %.
Investment
grade municipal
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have seen a 3.95 % return.
Investment
grade corporate
bonds issued by «blue chip» companies
tracked in the S&P 500 Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond Index barely held even and corporate junk
bonds ended in the red.
Barely in positive territory, investment
grade tax - exempt
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have returned a positive 0.11 % ytd.
The BofA Merrill Lynch Index
tracks the performance of U.S. dollar - denominated investment
grade government and corporate public debt issued in the U.S. domestic
bond market with at least 1 year and less than 10 years remaining maturity, including U.S. treasury, U.S. agency, foreign government, supranational and corporate securities.
On a nominal return basis, investment
grade corporate
bonds tracked in the S&P 500 Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond Index have outperformed tax - exempt
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index.
It's a plain - vanilla
bond fund
tracking the same index as before, with a fixed target of 60 % government and 40 % corporate
bonds, all investment
grade.
This
tracks the performance of corporate
bonds that were rated as investment -
grade at the time of issuance but have since been downgraded to non-investment
grade.
It is based on the ICE BofAML Diversified High Yield US Emerging Markets Corporate Plus Index which
tracks the performance of corporate
bonds denominated in US dollars with an average credit rating below investment
grade.
This index is designed to
track the performance of a basket of U.S. dollar - denominated investment
grade liquid corporate
bonds.
The SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate
Bond (NASDAQ: SCPB)
tracks investment
grade bonds with an average maturity of 2 years.
High - yield
bonds are represented by the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Index, which 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 Commission.
Index Definitions Bloomberg Barclays US High Yield Corporate
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 Commission.
Investment
grade municipal
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index returned 8.92 %.
(As a comparison, investment
grade corporate
bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond Index are down just about 2.5 % as yields have risen by about 50bps).
PowerShares 1 - 5 Year Laddered Investment
Grade Corporate
Bond ETF (TSX: PSB) tracks the performance of a bond ladder comprised of Canadian investment - grade corporate bonds maturing in one to five ye
Bond ETF (TSX: PSB)
tracks the performance of a
bond ladder comprised of Canadian investment - grade corporate bonds maturing in one to five ye
bond ladder comprised of Canadian investment -
grade corporate
bonds maturing in one to five years.
The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized
Bond Index (USD), which seeks to
track the performance of investment -
grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.
Investment
grade tax - exempt
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have seen a 2.32 % positive total return since it's year to date low on September 5th Read more -LSB-...]
Investment
grade tax - exempt
bonds tracked in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal
Bond Index have seen a 2.32 % positive total return since it's year to date low on September 5th 2013.
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 under 1 %.
The
bonds of these entities haven't reacted too much as they closely match the performance of the high
grade corporate
bond market tracked by the S&P 500 Bond In
bond market
tracked by the S&P 500
Bond In
Bond Index.