For example, by comparing a group of corporate bonds (
like investment grade corporate bonds) vs. treasuries, you get a picture of where the average investment grade bond credit spread currently stands.
Not exact matches
Within fixed income, we suggest raising average credit quality, particularly focusing on
investments in areas
like high -
grade corporate and municipal bonds.
By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in
investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much great
investment -
grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greate
corporate funds
like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $
Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much great
Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greate
Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.
As to whether the stock market has put in a «real» bottom, Reynolds said he would
like to see corroborating evidence of improving conditions,
like the yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury note moving back up, and improvement in the
investment -
grade corporate credit market.
Looking both within and outside of the benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across traditional
investment -
grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes
like non-U.S. sovereign and
corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.
They're restricted to higher - quality bonds —
like so - called «
investment grade»
corporate bonds.
Investment -
grade corporate bonds have historically been a complement to risk assets
like stocks and high yield bonds.
Rather than pursue cross-over
corporates or high - yield or even long - term
investment grade corporates, we have stayed near the middle of the curve with funds
like: (1) SPDR Nuveen Muni (TFI), (2) Vanguard Total Bond (BND), (3) iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury (IEF) and (4) iShares 3 - 7 Year Treasury (IEI).
Jettison a lower quality junk bond ETF for a higher quality
investment grade corporate bond ETF
like iShares Intermediate Credit (CIU).
What's more, just
like the September - October pullback of 2014, market internals have been deteriorating at a noteworthy pace, whether one is looking at waning breadth of bullish stock participation or widening credit spreads between
investment grade and higher yielding
corporates / junk
corporates.
We don't want to go to buying
investment grade corporates or negative interest rates
like that basket - case, the ECB, at least not yet.
An
investment grade rating ensures that credit risks are still pretty low, although
corporate bonds won't perform as steadily as government bonds if the market ever swoons again
like it did in late 2008.