A Potential Opportunity with EM Bond ETFs
Most investors have shunned the riskier developing economies, but emerging market corporate debt and related exchange traded funds could turn around this…
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Default Danger Zone: Bond ETFs That Are In Trouble
Emerging market bond exchange traded funds have been one the last bastions of strength in the developing markets. However, highly leveraged companies…
Risks in High-Yielding, Emerging Market Debt ETFs
Companies in developing economies have been accumulating massive amounts of debt, adding to risks that emerging market bond exchange traded fund investors…
Higher Yielding Emerging Market Bond ETFs Are Outperforming
Developing market equities may have fallen off this year. However, emerging market bonds and related exchange traded funds are outperforming U.S. debt,…
Potential Default Risk in EM Corporate Bond ETFs
The strengthening U.S. dollar could cause grief for the emerging markets and potentially increase default risks for USD-denominated emerging market corporate bond…
Considering Your Emerging Market Bond ETF Options
With more exchange traded fund options now available, fixed-income investors can expand their portfolios to include emerging market debt exposure. However, not…
This Week’s Most Searched ETFs: Hearing Fireworks
It was a short week for U.S. financial markets, but that did not stop some pre-Fourth of July fireworks from occurring on…
EM Bond ETFs Firm as Issuance Soars
Helped by declining Treasury yields, fixed income exchange traded funds holding emerging markets debt have been solid performers this year, rebounding from…
A Mixed Case for Some EM Bond ETFs
Since equity-based emerging markets exchange traded funds bottomed on Feb. 3, bond funds have been admirable performers. The dollar-denominated iShares J.P. Morgan…
Pimco Sees Value in Brazilian Bonds
This is not 2009, the year in which the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (NYSEArca: EWZ) surged 122%, but after a two-year…
EM Bond ETFs Try to Reclaim Lost Glory
Investors are picking up emerging market bond exchange traded funds, capitalizing on developing country debt as the highest-yielding fixed-income asset among global…
WisdomTree: Emerging Market Fixed Income: Focusing on Flows
2013 was not a good year for performance in emerging markets (EM), emerging market fixed income or fixed income in general, outside…
Appetite for Emerging Markets Corporates Still Robust
Investors eagerly ditched emerging markets bonds exchange traded funds in 2013 as the specter of an end to easy money from the…
The Potential Allure of Russian Corporates
Emerging markets corporate bonds may not be the first destination investors in corporates head to, but the asset class is growing. Although…