She said there are more profitable ways than cash to mitigate portfolio risk, including dividend - paying stocks, exchange - traded funds, high - yield corporate bonds and emerging market
sovereign debt ETFs.
You were also an early adopter of Emerging Market
sovereign debt ETFs.
The iShares Latin America exchange - traded fund (ILF) was down 1.9 % in recent trading, while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) was down 1.6 %, while the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB), the Market Vectors Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF (HYEM) and the PowerShares Emerging Markets
Sovereign Debt ETF (PCY) were flat.
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 most popular bond
ETFs available are still the one - stop - shop total - market blends, which package
sovereign, corporate and municipal
debt together.
Within the broad EM
debt asset class, U.S. investors looking for EM bond exposure without explicit currency risk may want to consider dollar - denominated
sovereign bonds like the iShares J. P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond
ETF (EMB).
As for the
ETFs of
sovereign debt, you can't really separate the risk in the Euro zone between the PIIGS and your Denmark & Germany.
Naturally, she believes
ETFs that hold high - yield corporate bonds, emerging market
sovereign debt or dividend - paying stocks are all better choices for long - term investors.
With a portfolio composed of investment - grade
debt from corporate,
sovereign and supranational issuers with three - year maximum maturities, the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond
ETF (NYSEARCA: CSJ) aims to offer a higher distribution yield than comparable all - Treasury funds, but it does have a marginally higher credit risk.
This
ETF tracks the Barclays EM Local Currency Government Diversified Index which is a fixed - rate local currency
sovereign debt of emerging market countries.
As Eric Noll argued in his testimony: «Restricting or eliminating the [
ETF] business will not solve the
sovereign debt crisis in Europe, will not balance the US budget, will not restore bank balance sheets, will not add jobs, and will not repay consumer
debt and get them spending again.
While
ETF traders have been saying stocks were poised for some sort of downside correction, particularly in view of riots in Greece in the wake of Standard & Poor's downgrade of that country's
sovereign debt to junk status, Thursday's swift and unprecedented price action — between 2:30 and 3:00 p.m. EDT — clearly involved computers as opposed to panicked humans.