What You Should Know:
- Van Eck Global sponsors the fund. [New Fallen Angel Bond ETF]
- ANGL has an expense ratio of 0.40%.
- The fund has 66 holdings and the top 10 make up 26.1% of the overall portfolio.
- Bond maturities include: 1-3 years 18.3%, 3-5 years 16.7%, 5-7 years 10.0%, 7-10 years 5.0%, 10-15 years 11.7%, 15-20 years 14.2%, 20-30 years 12.2% and 30+ years 10.3%.
- The bonds held have an average duration of 5.9 years and an average 11.8 years to maturity.
- Allocations by S&P credit rating include: BBB 17.7%, BB 53.0%, B 19.7%, CCC 6.7% and CC 0.6%.
- Top country allocations include: U.S. 82.9%, U.K. 6.4%, Norway 4.2%, France 2.4% and Cayman Islands 2.1%.
- Sector allocations include: telecom 14.2%, basic industry 12.4%, energy 9.0%, consumer cyclical 6.7%, services 6.1%, media 3.2%, healthcare 2.0%, capital goods 1.8%, tech 1.7%, real estate 1.5%, automotive 0.5%, consumer non-cyclical 0.5%, banking 27.8%, financial services 5.1%, insurance 2.6% and utility 4.7%.
- ANGL has a 30-day SEC yield of 6.33%.
- The ETF is up 1.5% over the last month and up 1.7% over the past three months.
- The fund started trading on April 10, 2012.
- “‘Fallen angels’ are corporate bonds that were investment grade at issue but have since been downgraded to high yield,” according to Morningstar analyst Patricia Oey.
- “Generally speaking, fallen-angel issuers tend to be more-established firms and have better debt profiles and greater financing flexibility than original high-yield issuers,” Oey added.
The Latest News:
- In the week ended July 27, high-yield corporate bond sales dropped 47% and yields climbed for the first time in two months as investors fled risky assets in light of the recent Eurozone rumblings, reports Sarika Gangar for Bloomberg.
- There is a lot of pure money looking to be put to work in good high-quality names for buy-and-hold accounts,” Timothy Cox, executive director of debt capital markets at Mizuho Securities USA Inc., said in the article.
- Speculative investment grade bonds have underperformed investment grade notes for the longest period since November, reports Lisa Abramowicz for Bloomberg.
- According to Bank of America, bond fund managers are shifting back to safer corporate bonds.
- “In the next month or so, with what’s happening in Europe, we’ll see some volatility,” Adam Richmond, a high-yield bond strategist at Morgan Stanley, said in the article. “If I were an investor, I’d be looking to add on weakness, but maybe not today.”
Market Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF
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Max Chen contributed to this article.