corporate bond ETFs

Unlike government bonds, corporate bonds have one major advantage: they offer strong returns. When investing in corporate bonds, there are many variables an investor should consider such as credit risk, interest rates, Federal Reserve policy, and the size of their position. Additionally, there are...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS)'s Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit, which includes the firm's exchange-traded funds business, added to its lineup of fixed income funds Thursday with the debut of a high-yield corporate bond ETF. The Goldman Sachs Access High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE...

With bond markets increasingly pricing in higher odds that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates, it is not surprising that investors are departing corporate bond exchange-traded funds this quarter. In the current quarter, three of the six worst ETFs in terms of assets lost are corporate...

With 10-year Treasurys yielding a piddly 1.6 percent, the nearly 2.9 percent investors can grab with the iShares IBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bd Fd (NYSE: LQD) is quite attractive. LQD, the largest exchange-traded fund holding investment-grade corporate debt, is widely viewed as the benchmark...

A simple view of investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds is these are instruments sold to investors who, in most cases, are not looking to take on significant. Hence why creditworthiness is an integral part of evaluating corporate bonds. After all, investors in these bonds not only want...

In news that is not exactly stunning to seasoned followers of the high-yield corporate bond market, junk bonds and the related exchange-traded funds are enjoying oil's rebound. After all, it was slumping oil prices and the specter of high-yield energy sector defaults that dragged on junk bond...

Less than five months into 2016, it is not a stretch to say that, particularly in comparison to last year, things are pretty good for high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds. The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK...

A sanguine interest rate environment and continuing speculation that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates any more than twice this year are among the catalysts helping investors rekindle their attraction toward corporate bond exchange-traded funds. The love fest includes high-...

High-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds are back in style this year. That much is confirmed by the rising tide of assets into these ETFs coupled with the surge in volume. Of course, the pillars of the junk bond ETF community are raking in the assets and garnering plenty of attention in the...

In what was supposed to be a tricky environment for high-yield, corporate bond exchange-traded funds, investors are flocking to those ETFs. In fact, the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK) is this year's seventh best asset-gathering ETF with nearly $2 billion worth of inflows....