high-yield ETFs

Home to $18.9 billion in assets under management as of the end of August, the Vanguard High Yield Dividend ETF (NYSE: VYM) is one of the largest U.S. dividend exchange-traded funds. While size does matter to some extent with ETFs, there is more to VYM's story. VYM tracks the FTSE High Dividend...

A common criticism and arguably debunked myth surrounding high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds is that liquidity, during times of market stress, can be hard to come by. Simply because some critics hold a particular point of view does not make it accurate, and there have been plenty of...

Long gone are the days when investors options for income were limited to high dividend stocks and bonds and the corresponding exchange-traded funds. While the ETF industry has recently been criticized, perhaps rightfully so, for bringing too many new products to market, issuers have also introduced...

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...

The landscape of exchange-traded funds dedicated to high-yielding preferred stocks is not as large as other corners of the ETF arena, so there is room for some innovation here. Innovation arrived Tuesday with the debut of the Elkhorn S&P High Quality Preferred ETF (BATS: EPRF), the first...

Tumbling Treasury yields and a sanguine interest rate environment have reinvigorated investors' thirst for high-yield sectors and asset classes. While now appears to be the time to be embracing high dividend stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds, investors may want to consider a...

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...

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...

The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK), the two largest high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds, along with other junk bond ETFs endured plenty of controversy last year. If flows data are any indication,...

The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK), the two largest high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds by assets, are down an average of 4 percent, but those declines only tell part of the story. Amid a spate of energy...