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Matt Tucker: There’s been much ado about high yield bond ETFs in the media for a while now. And with good reason – after a six month stint as the asset class of choice for yield-hungry investors, these funds have been riding a roller coaster of late, Read more…
Matt Tucker: When you hear about fund closures in the ETF industry, it’s not usually a positive thing. But on August 15th, the iShares 2012 S&P AMT-Free Municipal Series ETF (MUAA) is closing, and we couldn’t be more proud. It might seem counterintuitive Read more…
Matt Tucker: The July 4th holiday is here, which naturally leads many of us to think about our fixed income portfolios. What, just me? Read more…
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Matt Tucker: Its building block time again! I recently wrote a post aboutdifferent ways that ETFs can help investors meet their income objectives. The two options were: 1) “No assembly required,” through a pre-packaged ETF of ETFs such as the Read more…
Matt Tucker: It’s a typical investor conundrum these days: How do you balance the need for income with the risk required to get it? In this low interest rate environment, people are increasingly looking to higher risk asset classes in order to meet income objectives Read more…
Matt Tucker: Last month, iShares introduced (BATS:CEMB), which gives investors exposure to emerging market corporate debt. Since the fund’s launch we’ve fielded some questions from clients wondering why the yield on CEMB is close to the yield on another Read more…
Matthew Tucker: Investors are spooked. They are so spooked that they are buying an asset that currently has a negative yield. What is the culprit causing so much concern? Curiously, it’s inflation. Investors appear to be so concerned about inflation Read more…
Matthew Tucker: Over the past few months we have seen a lot of investors looking for ways to add yield to their portfolio, through investments such as high dividend stocks and higher yielding bonds investments. In the fixed income market we have seen significant flows into the iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Read more…
Matt Tucker: Wednesday April 11th marked the 5 year anniversary of when HYG began trading. When we launched HYG [the iShares iBoxx High Yield Fund (NYSEARCA:HYG)] five years ago, a number Read more…
Matthew Tucker: For the first time in a number of months, long-depressed interest rates have recently started to move up. The 10 year Treasury entered March at 1.97%, having been below 2.10% since last October. During March a combination of positive events, including a broadly more positive outlook Read more…
Matt Tucker: In my Welcome to the World of Fixed Income ETFs blog last month, I touched on the differences between how individual bonds and bond ETFs trade. For me the differences between these markets, and what it means for investors to put bonds onto an exchange through an ETF, are some of the Read more…
Matt Tucker: First, the bad (and obvious) news: When it comes to investing, you can’t control returns. Now, the good news: You can manage the amount of risk in your portfolio, and managing risk is one way of influencing returns. Read more…
Matt Tucker: As I have discussed before, the fixed income ETF industry has taken off in the past few years, with new investors discovering the funds every day. This has generated a lot of attention and many good questions as investors dig into this new asset class to figure out how it works and how best to use Read more…
Matt Tucker: Think for a minute, if you will, about your equity portfolio. Do your investments there reflect any sentiment around sectors? For example, you may have shed some of your financial stocks Read more…
Matt Tucker: I’ve been spending a lot of time on the road this year, attending conferences, talking to the media and meeting with investors. One thing I’m learning is that there is still a lot of confusion when it comes to fixed income and fixed income ETFs. With a size of more than $36 trillion the US fixed Read more…
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