Sentences with phrase «majority of bond index»

The vast majority of bond index funds sell them before maturity because major bond indexes provided by BarCap (ex-Lehman) all have minimum maturity clauses, forcing them to sell the bonds early in order to track the index properly.

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The majority of the index is investment - grade bonds, with only 7.6 % of the issuers rated high yield.

While there are a few activelymanaged fixed income ETFs, for our purposes we'll focus on index - based products, which generally seek to track the performance of an index minus fees and expenses, and make up the majority of bond ETFs out there.

I have the majority of my investments in index funds at Vanguard in a taxable account, but don't like bond funds paying next to nothing in a rising interest rate environment, though their low correlation to stocks would be nice, return free risk though.

The majority of my cash position now sits in Vanguard's Intermediate - Term Bond Index Fund (VBIIX), earning 2.11 % while I search for better options.

The majority of government bond funds are index based, meaning they track a specified index and there no active management.