Fixed income exchange - traded funds (ETFs), whose shares are traded on major stock exchanges, are a special type of mutual fund designed to track the performance of
a specific bond market index.
Not exact matches
Depending on the
specific market environment, the Funds may employ hedging techniques to minimize the impact of fluctuations in the overall stock or
bond markets, and may also take positions in individual securities that differ substantially from their weights in the major stock or
bond market indices.
An
index is a collection of
specific stocks or
bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall
market segment» performance.
Like equity
indexes,
bond indexes typically target a
specific part of the
market — such as a
specific sector (e.g. Treasuries, corporates), credit rating (e.g. Aaa - A), or maturity range (e.g. 7 - 10 years).
You can invest in
indexes that track emerging -
markets corporate or government
bonds, as well as corporate
bonds in
specific sectors, such as financials, utilities or industrials.
Index: A composite of stock or
bond prices or
market capitalization of a
specific set of companies.
An
index is a collection of
specific stocks or
bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall
market segment» performance.
Today, we have more than 60 unique funds that track
indexes across the
bond and stock
markets, both U.S. and international, as well as sector -
specific areas of the
markets.
When you buy a
bond fund, you buy shares in a portfolio of
bonds that is created or managed to pursue a
specific investment objective such as current income, current tax - exempt income, total return, or to match the performance of a
market index.