The fund adjusts its allocations daily based upon equity and bond market volatility, correlation between the bond and equity indexes, and the yield - to -
maturity of the bond index.
The fund adjusts its allocations daily based upon equity and bond market volatility, correlation between the bond and equity indexes, and the yield - to -
maturity of the bond index.
Not exact matches
Its underlying
index selects and weights its
bonds by market value, and this method yields a portfolio that aligns well with our benchmark in terms
of credit tranches and
maturity buckets, with the only notable difference being a slightly lower YTM.
The
index includes
bonds with a minimum credit rating BAA3, are issued as part
of a deal
of at least $ 50 million, have an amount outstanding
of at least $ 5 million and have a
maturity of 8 to 12 years.
SHYL tracks an
index of USD - denominated high - yield corporate
bonds with 0 to 5 years remaining to
maturity.
The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate 10 + Year
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of 10 years or m
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed
of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit
Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities
Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of 10 years or m
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with
maturities of 10 years or more.
Most
of the corporate data from the 1950s (e.g. Moodys and Dow Jones Corporate
Bond index) is for 20 to 30 year
maturities.
The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate 5 — 7 Year
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of five to seven ye
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed
of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit
Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities
Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of five to seven ye
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with
maturities of five to seven years.
The Barclays U.S. Aggregate
Bond Index is a market value — weighted index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with maturities of one year or
Index is a market value — weighted
index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with maturities of one year or
index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with
maturities of one year or more.
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 Barclays U.S. Intermediate Government
Bond Index is a market value — weighted index of U.S. government fixed - rate debt issues with maturities between one and 10 y
Index is a market value — weighted
index of U.S. government fixed - rate debt issues with maturities between one and 10 y
index of U.S. government fixed - rate debt issues with
maturities between one and 10 years.
The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate 1 — 3 Year
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of one to three ye
Bond Index is unmanaged and is composed
of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government / Credit
Index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Mortgage - Backed Securities
Index and includes Treasury issues, agency issues, corporate
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with maturities of one to three ye
bond issues, and mortgage - backed securities with
maturities of one to three years.
The iShares 20 + Year Treasury
Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted
index of debt issued by the US Treasury with remaining
maturities of 20 years or more.
Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury
Bond Index is a market value - weighted index of public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with maturities of one year or
Index is a market value - weighted
index of public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with maturities of one year or
index of public obligations
of the U.S. Treasury with
maturities of one year or more.
High - yield
bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped
Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating
of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to
maturity.
U.S. Treasuries represented by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 7 - 10 Year Treasury
Bond Index, including U.S. Treasury securities with a
maturity of 7 — 10 years.
The fund has no targeted
maturity, but does target a duration within 10 %
of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Investment Grade
Bond Index, which as
of the end March was 7.5 years.
RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM) today announced final details regarding the scheduled
maturity of RBC Target 2016 Corporate
Bond Index ETF (TSX: RQD)...
2016.09.15 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. announces final details on
maturity of RBC Target 2016 Corporate
Bond Index ETF RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM) today announced final details regarding the scheduled
maturity of RBC Target 2016 Corporate
Bond Index ETF (TSX: RQD)...
2016.03.15 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. announces
maturity date
of RBC Target 2016 Corporate
Bond Index ETF RBC Global Asset Management Inc. today announced that the RBC Target 2016 Corporate
Bond Index ETF (TSX: RQD) will mature on Friday, November 18, 2016...
The PowerShares BulletShares 2023 Corporate
Bond ETF tracks an
index of investment - grade corporate
bonds with effective
maturities in 2023.
The PowerShares BulletShares 2019 Corporate
Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted
index of USD - denominated corporate investment - grade
bonds with effective
maturities in 2019.
Exhibit 1: The Yield - to -
Maturity of the S&P Indonesia Corporate
Bond Index and the S&P Indonesia Sovereign
Bond Index
The Barclays U.S. Credit
Index is the credit component of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matu
Index is the credit component
of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate
Bond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matur
Bond Index, which is a broad - based bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matu
Index, which is a broad - based
bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matur
bond index comprised of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to matu
index comprised
of government, corporate, mortgage and asset - backed issues, rated investment grade or higher, and having at least one year to
maturity.
Long - term
indexes include
bonds with
maturities of 10 years or longer.
Also, did you use the top - line
index, since the top - line
index includes long
bonds (rendering it an even poorer comparator for your purpose), while sub-indices split the
index into an Intermediate
maturity band that includes
bonds with
maturities of 1 to 9.999 years, while the Long
maturity bands include
maturities of 10 years or greater.
The Guggenheim BulletShares 2015 Corporate
Bond ETF tracks an
index of investment grade corporate
bonds with effective
maturities in 2015.
Interest rate sensitivity, also known as duration, is based on the Barclays U.S. Credit
Bond Index (all maturities), and short - term bonds represented by the subset of bonds within the index with maturities of 1 - 5 years (Barclays 1 - 5 Year U.S. Credit Bond In
Index (all
maturities), and short - term
bonds represented by the subset
of bonds within the
index with maturities of 1 - 5 years (Barclays 1 - 5 Year U.S. Credit Bond In
index with
maturities of 1 - 5 years (Barclays 1 - 5 Year U.S. Credit
Bond IndexIndex).
Government
bonds are measured by the Bloomberg Barclays Government - Related
Index, a universe
of Treasury
bonds used as a benchmark against the market for long - term
maturity fixed - income securities.
In their December 2016 paper entitled «Cross-Asset Signals and Time Series Momentum», Aleksi Pitkajarvi, Matti Suominen and Lauri Vaittinen examine a strategy that times each
of country stock and government
bond (constant 5 - year
maturity)
indexes based on past returns for both.
The Bloomberg Barclays Municipal
Bond 10 - Year
Index is an unmanaged index that is considered representative of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt bonds with a maturity of at least 10 y
Index is an unmanaged
index that is considered representative of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt bonds with a maturity of at least 10 y
index that is considered representative
of the broad market for investment grade, tax - exempt
bonds with a
maturity of at least 10 years.
The iShares TIPS
Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: TIP) tracks the performance
of the Barclays U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities TIPS
Index, which is composed
of TIPS with
maturities ranging from one to 20 - plus years.
The yield - to -
maturity of the S&P Indonesia
Bond Index tightened 80 bps to 7.07 % YTD, and it remains the highest yielding country within Pan Asia YTD, followed by the 7.11 % yield
of the S&P BSE India
Bond Index.
Exhibit 2 shows the yield spread
of various dividend
indices versus the yield - to -
maturity of the S&P U.S. Treasury
Bond 7 - 10 Year
Index since Dec. 17, 2015.
Short and intermediate
maturity treasury returns have forced performance seeking investors to assume the risk
of the longer end such as the current 13.53 % return from the S&P / BGCantor 20 + Year U.S. Treasury
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.
Municipal
bonds are measured by the Bloomberg Barclays US Municipal
Bond Index, an unmanaged index of municipal bonds with maturities greater than two y
Index, an unmanaged
index of municipal bonds with maturities greater than two y
index of municipal
bonds with
maturities greater than two years.
Looking at the yield performance, the yield - to -
maturity tracked by the S&P Malaysia
Bond Index has widened 17bps YTD to 4.14 %, as
of August 18, 2015.
Japanese sovereign
bonds represent over 70 %
of market exposure; the current yield - to -
maturity of the S&P Japan Sovereign
Bond Index is 0.22 %, compared with 2.83 % for the S&P China Sovereign
Bond Index.
[1] Sovereign
bonds have had a strong rally since then; the total return rose 10.82 % YTD, while the yield - to -
maturity tightened 103 bps to 3.21 %, according to the S&P Philippines Sovereign
Bond Index as
of Aug. 4, 2016.
The RBC ETFs will employ a sampling methodology to replicate the DEX Target Date
Maturity Corporate
Bond Indexes provided by PC -
Bond Analytics, a provider
of Canadian fixed income
indices.
9 The Bloomberg Barclays Municipal
Bond Index is an unmanaged index of municipal bonds with maturities greater than two y
Index is an unmanaged
index of municipal bonds with maturities greater than two y
index of municipal
bonds with
maturities greater than two years.
2 The Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury
Index is an unmanaged index of prices of US Treasury bonds with maturities of one to 30 y
Index is an unmanaged
index of prices of US Treasury bonds with maturities of one to 30 y
index of prices
of US Treasury
bonds with
maturities of one to 30 years.
Short - Duration
Bonds are represented by the Bloomberg Barclays 1 - 3 Gov» t. / Credit Index which is composed of the Bloomberg Barclays Government and Corporate Bond Indexes, including U.S. government Treasury and agency securities as well as corporate and Yankee bonds, with maturities between 1 and 3 y
Bonds are represented by the Bloomberg Barclays 1 - 3 Gov» t. / Credit
Index which is composed
of the Bloomberg Barclays Government and Corporate
Bond Indexes, including U.S. government Treasury and agency securities as well as corporate and Yankee
bonds, with maturities between 1 and 3 y
bonds, with
maturities between 1 and 3 years.
The Bloomberg Barclays 7 - Year Municipal
Index is a subset
of the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal
Bond Index, covering those issues with remaining
maturities of six to seven years.
About half
of the
bonds in the
index have
maturities of five years or less, about a quarter mature within five to ten years, and another quarter extend past ten years.
As recently as this April, the DEX Universe
Bond Index had a yield to
maturity of about 2.1 %, while today it's over 2.9 %.
According to the
index methodology, the ETFs hold 50 %
of their assets in
bonds with
maturities between one and two years, and 50 % in
bonds that mature in 10 to 20 years.
Today, a traditional
bond index exchange - traded fund (ETF) with an average term
of about 10 years has a yield to
maturity of about 1.7 %.
The
index mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 y
index mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe
Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 y
Index, which includes a wide range
of maturities, from one year to more than 25 years.