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The New ETF Darlings – US-FOREX.US
After the stock market lost 37% last year, retail investors have developed a taste for comparatively stodgy fixed-income assets, especially exchange-traded funds. Assets under management by fixed-income ETFs climbed 47%, to 83 billion, this year, according to Barclay’s data. That gain outpaced the 17% jump in assets held by all U.S. ETFs.“Some people are feeling… »
Crazy For Junk – US-FOREX.US
Here’s more evidence of risk-taking’s rebirth: Sales of the riskiest, speculative debt has already surpassed last year’s total. Corporations have sold 88 billion in junk bonds worldwide, up from 49.5 billion in 2008, according to data provider Dealogic. The 4.2 billion bond sale by Canadian miner Teck Resources Limited in May is the year’s largest.Telecommunication… »
Vanguard To Debut Bond Index Funds – US-FOREX.US
With bond markets soaring and investors piling cash into fixed-income funds, the mammoth mutual fund manager Vanguard unveiled seven new bond index funds on Tuesday. Expected to open to investors by the end of the year, the funds track a range of corporate and government bond indexes from Barclays Capital. One tracks mortgage-backed securities. As… »