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Russ Koesterich: Investors often have a home country bias when it comes to their fixed income portfolios, which means they are generally too reliant on domestic issues. Today, however, there are a number of reasons why investors should consider Read more…
Russ Koesterich: In today’s low yield environment, fixed income investors face a stark choice: accept lower income or take on additional risk to generate incremental yield. Read more…
Matt Tucker: In a video blog a few months ago, I recounted – much to the amusement of my co-workers — the trouble I ran into trying to buy a municipal bond for my personal account. Read more…
Matt Tucker: A decade ago, buying a local currency emerging market (EM) bond fund would have been nearly impossible. In the “old” days emerging market governments primarily issued bonds that were denominated in foreign currencies, like US dollars, Japanese Yen or Euros, when they wanted to raise capital. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: While emerging markets are not without their share of macroeconomic problems, they are not experiencing the same sovereign debt problems as their developed market neighbors. In fact, the world’s sovereign debt problems are centered in developed markets such as Europe, the United Read more…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) today announced that its iShares® Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest manager of ETFs, has launched the iShares Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund (NYSE:LEMB) on the NYSE Arca. The new fund provides investors with diversified access to the broad investable universe of local Read more…
iShares will begin trading its new “iShares Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund” (NYSE:LEMB) Thursday, October 20, 2011. The iShares Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund (the “Fund”) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees Read more…
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