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Michael Johnston: Once upon a time, the conventional wisdom was that investors should hold stocks as a source of long-term capital appreciation while bonds could bring stability and a stream of meaningful current returns in the form of interest payments. Read more…
Matt Tucker: With the volume of headlines that bond ETFs capture these days, it’s easy to take for granted the fact that these innovative products haven’t been around that long. In fact, it was ten years ago this month that iShares launched the first bond ETF Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Since SPY made its debut as the first exchange-traded fund in 1993, the ETF industry has sure come a long way with its lineup of over 1,400 products now available to all walks of investors. From plain vanilla funds to the more complex Read more…
The global market for fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) will likely grow to more than $2 trillion in assets over the next decade, compared with $302 billion today, according to a new market analysis released today by iShares, Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Many investors concerned about a worsening European crisisand a stalling recovery are searching for safe-haven investments. Unfortunately, they are rapidly running out of choices. 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…
Eric Dutram: Although yields are low, fixed income ETF investing can still be a valuable part of an investor’s portfolio. Securities in this space still have low levels of correlation to broad equity markets and are often less volatile as well. 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…
Russ Koesterich: Given high yield credit’s recent rally and surge of inflows, I’m now getting a lot of questions about whether or not the asset class still looks appealing. 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…
Michael Johnston: The vast majority of the more than 1,400 ETFs now available are pretty straightforward; most investors can pretty quickly grasp the investment objectives based on a quick glance at the name and holdings. There are, however, some ETFs that investors do not understand well at all– Read more…
Michael Johnston: The innovation in the bond ETF arena just keeps on coming, as evidenced most recently by a trio of first-to-market products launched by iShares. Though there are more than two Read more…
Michael Johnston: iShares continued to expand its suite of exchange-traded products this week with the debut of seven new bond ETFs. The new offering includes the first products available to U.S. 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…
Russ Koesterich: When you’re watching horror movies, the time to worry is when things become eerily quiet. Last Friday, the market’s own measure of fear, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), hit its lowest level since last July. This is the financial equivalent of eerily quiet. Read more…
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