Increased Volatility is Fueling an Appetite for Bonds
While short sellers in U.S. equities have an appetite for destruction brewing in the stock market, the latest volatility is also fueling…
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It’s Been ‘Risk On, Risk Off’ for Fixed-Income Investors During Volatility
In a seminal cinematic moment, Mr. Miyagi of the “Karate Kid” instilled the building blocks of defense to his pupil Daniel LaRusso…
Deutsche Bolsters Bond ETF Lineup With Three New Funds
After becoming one of the dominant purveyors of currency hedged exchange traded funds and the issuer behind the largest China A-shares ETF,…
Big Inflows to Short-Term Bond ETF
Last year was a record year for inflows to fixed income exchange traded funds and with 10-year Treasury yields tumbling again in…
A Simple Short-Term Bond ETF
The Federal Reserve has sought to assure skittish investors that interest rates will remain low for the foreseeable future. Last month in…
Inside Rising Rate ETFs
One of the most prominent themes in the exchange traded funds industry over the past year has been investors’ increased interest in…
Institutions Boosting Use of Fixed Income ETFs
A changing interest rate environment and post-financial crisis regulatory shifts are among the catalysts prompting institutional investors to increase their use of…
Bond ETFs: The New Black
After being punished by soaring Treasury yields in 2013, some bond exchange traded funds are the toast of the town in 2014.…
BlackRock: A Duration Story, in Pictures
Fixed income ETFs today hold $354 billion in assets, accounting for about 15% of total assets—triple their share in 2005. While the…
Short-Duration ETF Showdown
Ten-year Treasury yields surged by nearly 130 basis points last year as investors fretted about a reduction to the Federal Reserve’s $85…
BlackRock: 3 Bond Strategies for the New Year
In my last post, I took a look back at the fixed income strategies that I proposed at the beginning of 2013…
iShares Launches New Short-Duration Bond ETF
BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) iShares unit, the world’s largest issuer of exchange traded funds, added to its lineup of short-duration bond ETFs today…
Some High-Yield Bond ETFs Skirt Duration Risk
Ten-year Treasury yields have soared 49% this year, inflicting damage on an array of long- and some medium-duration bond exchange traded funds…
BlackRock: The Short Duration Two-Step
It’s not often that one asset class can be used for two very different (and somewhat opposing) investment strategies, but that’s exactly…