For example, you can access the
total investment grade bond market through a fund like the iShares Core Total US Bond Market ETF (AGG), or specifically target U.S. corporate bonds through a fund like the iShares Aaa - A Rated Corporate Bond ETF (QLTA).
Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Index provides a measure of the performance of the
U.S. investment grade bonds market, which includes investment grade U.S. Government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass - through securities and asset - backed securities that are publicly offered for sale in the United States.
The same predictive relationship is apparent for the
broad investment grade bond market (U.S. Aggregate Bond Index), shown in Figure 3, as well as for 10 - year sovereign debt of other developed countries.
High yield bonds have been marching along and putting up returns that are dominating
the investment grade bond markets.
All that said life has returned to
the investment grade bond market, and may be returning to the junk market, and maybe even the LBO debt market, if the banks will take enough of a loss to get things moving.
We should use
the investment grade bond market as a whole, and that means the Barclays» Aggregate [AGG].
Personally, I would choose the Lehman Barclays» Aggregate — it's a good proxy for
the investment grade bond market, and there is nothing special about it — it has all risks, and an average level of interest rate sensitivity.
The Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index measures the performance of the U.S.
investment grade bond market.
In 2002,
the investment grade bond market shut down briefly on the mornings of two days, in July and October.
The yields of
the investment grade bond market are a truer measure of the troubles, because no one is fiddling with it yet.
Seeks to provide exposure to agency mortgage backed securities of the U.S. investment grade bond market
The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index provides a measure of the performance of the U.S.
investment grade bonds market.
The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. MBS Index (the «MBS Index») measures the performance of the U.S. agency mortgage pass - through segment of the U.S.
investment grade bond market.