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The appeal of preferred funds is they offer higher yields than bond ETFs, explains Alfred Lee, vice-president of BMO Global Asset Management and lead manager of the bank's Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF (TSX: ZPR).

Not exact matches

Bonds, as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF (BND), were down more than 2 percent year - to - date through the end of February.

We can all easily build a portfolio of stocks, bonds and speciality ETFs through an online brokerage like Motif Investing for way less than in the past with much better risk parameters.

PIMCO Total Return ETF switched ticker symbols from TRXT to BOND on the NYSE Arca in April and has a gross expense ratio of 0.55 %, which is notably cheaper than the 0.85 % charged for the more established PIMCO Total Return A (PTTAX), according to Rosenbluth.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

Traders have pulled more than $ 1.8 billion from two junk - focused ETFs just in the past week: the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond -LRB-- $ 1.06 billion, most of any ETF) and the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond -LRB--765.4 million, the second most), while also redeeming $ 577.4 million (the fourth most) from the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Bond ETF, according to FactSet and ETF.com.

Bond ETFs saw their highest inflows in three years in April Rise in yields attracted buyersInvestors snapped up fixed - income exchange - traded funds in April, with the category seeing its biggest month of inflows in more than three years.

Currently, 1 ETF track the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury STRIPS 20 - 30 Year Equal Par Bond Index with more than $ 545.14 M in ETP assets with an average expense ratio of 0.07 %.

In April about 21 % more assets flowed into bond ETFs than stock ETFs, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data.

As Rosenbluth noted, HYDB allocates more of its roster to B - rated bonds and less to CCC - rated issues than do the two largest, traditional junk bond ETFs.

The cash yield on the iShares CDN REIT Sector ETF (TSX: XRE) is approximately 5.45 %, a spread of less than 2 % over the 10 - year Government of Canada bond, which is currently yielding 3.55 %.

Currently, 1 ETF track the Bloomberg Barclays Rate Hedged U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, Negative Five Duration with more than $ 30.73 M in ETP assets with an average expense ratio of 0.28 %.

In addition, short interest as a percentage of shares outstanding in the $ 31.5 billion iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF stood at more than 8 % as of last week, the highest since 2010.

There are fewer bond ETFs than those that invest in stocks.

For example, one source found that, on average, high - yield corporate bonds trade fewer than half the days each month; meanwhile, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) trades millions of shares each day.

Bond ETFs attracted more new money than any other asset class or category of exchange traded fund in Canada during the first half of the year.

Therefore, short selling iShares 20 + Year T - bond ETF ($ TLT) is technically better than buying $ TBT.

Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high yield corporate, PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).

They offer higher returns than many kinds of sovereign bond ETFs, including Treasurys, which have had rock - bottom interest rates for years.

Among US government bond ETFs, short - term bond ETFs accumulated more than $ 6 billion in flows, while long - term bond ETFs saw $ 0.3 billion in outflows amid changes in volatility and shifting interest rate expectations (see US government bond ETF flow).

In turn, he is comparing bond ETFs to bonds, making the case that it may be easier to trade in and out of bond ETFs than bonds themselves.

While this might not seem like a crazy boost from the 2.96 % yield of the fixed income ETF that I just discussed, it's larger than it seems because dividends are taxed at a favorable rate compared to the interest income generated by bonds.

Vanguard Total International Bond ETF holds more than 4,500 bonds from both developed and emerging non-U.S. markets.

A bond ETF could contain hundreds — sometimes thousands — of bonds, making an ETF generally less risky than owning just a handful of individual bonds.

Choose a self - directed TFSA investment account that lets you hold stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange - traded funds (ETFs) and other investments that can generate higher returns than savings accounts.

ZAG now has more than $ 2.1 billion in it, passing XBB, the granddaddy of Canadian bond ETFs.

Global bond mutual funds have higher costs than ETFs, with MERs ranging as high as 3 %.

DRIPs allow you to receive ETF distributions — whether stock dividends, bond interest, or return of capital — in the form of new shares rather than cash.

Strong demand for broad market and US government ETFs contributed to a more than $ 15 billion gain in net flows (see Bond ETFs keep momentum going).

Diversification is important here, as high - yield ETFs can react very differently than dividend - growth ETFs to changes in bond yields or to Fed policy.

One ETF advantage is that one fund can hold hundreds or thousands of stocks or bonds, so you get a lot more diversification than if you were trying to buy individual stocks or bonds yourself, according to Vanguard.

«It has already taken longer than I expected to materialize, but I remain as confident as ever that when the hikes come, traditional bond investors (especially in no fixed - maturity products like mutual funds and ETFs) will be hurt by the news,» he wrote in an e-mail.

CLF has more than $ 1 billion in assets, and the iShares DEX Short Term Bond (XSB) is the second - largest ETF in the country with more than $ 2.2 billion.

In a series of posts last month, I looked at ETFs from Horizons and Claymore that use derivatives rather than simply holding the stocks or bonds in their underlying indexes.

And second, if you do hold corporate bonds, a single fund such as CBO or XCB will be more manageable and less expensive in the long run than building a ladder with these ETFs.

That's because virtually all the bonds in a broad - based ETF today were purchased at a premium — in other words, for more than face value.

If you're looking for an index mutual fund rather than an ETF, the e-Series version of TD's Canadian Bond Index Fund should top your list.

But I'll wager that many investors think their bond ETFs are performing worse than they really are.

The average trading fee for non-U.S. Treasury bonds is $ 23.69, about 2.9 times higher than the cost to trade an ETF.

Over two - thirds (68.4 per cent) of the 212 actively managed ETFs worldwide are in fixed income because bond managers are more comfortable than equity managers in providing transparency on their portfolio holdings.

For buckets two and three, bond exchange traded funds (ETFs), with short - to very - short maturities, have historically achieved better returns than traditional savings accounts and may help you reach your financial goals faster.

Generally, the cost to trade bond mutual funds or bond ETFs is lower than the cost to trade bonds.

The ETF is also cheaper than the comparable iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index ETF (TSX: XSB), which has a management fee of 0.25 %.

Bond mutual funds and bond ETFs are generally considered more easily traded than individual boBond mutual funds and bond ETFs are generally considered more easily traded than individual bobond ETFs are generally considered more easily traded than individual bonds.

The Vanguard Short - Term Bond ETF (TSX: VSB) costs 10 basis points less than the iShares DEX Short - Term Bond ETF (TSX: XSB).

For these professionals, liquid bond ETFs are a convenient, diversified way to hedge against rising rates and seek higher yields, at lower cost than active mutual funds.

When risk - free and AAA - rated corporate bonds yield less than 4 %, 3.5 % yield on utilities and 6 % yields from junk ETFs are difficult to pass up.

While it's true that a simple 60/40 portfolio of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and the iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) is actually enjoying a nice run in 2016, up a little more than 3 % for the year, don't get used to it.

Of course, there's much more to the story than this, but these three points really get to the heart of what a bond ETF is.

I have been in mutual funds since the late»80s, when that was the only game in town (other than stocks and bonds, i.e. before ETFs).