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Bond ETF Ideas For Rising Rates
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - 9:20am | 460The Federal Reserve's two-day meeting, its last of 2016, concludes Wednesday, and if the Fed funds futures market is accurate, it would be stunning if the U.S. central bank did raise interest rates. November was unkind to bonds and fixed-income exchange-traded funds. In fact, data suggest short...
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A Rookie ETF To Consider
Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 10:11am | 495There is almost always plenty to talk about in the world of exchange-traded funds. Two of this year's more prominent topics include the resurgence of emerging markets debt and the ongoing struggles of many new ETFs, although there is no shortage of such funds. Looking Into EMTL While the field...
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Investors Just Can't Get Enough Of Bond ETFs
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 4:13pm | 465At the halfway point of 2016, it is starting to sound like a broken record, but advisors and investors are enthralled by fixed income exchange-traded funds. Year-to-date, four of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are bond funds and investors are pouring into plenty of others that are outside the top...
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ETFs For A Changing Fixed-Income Environment
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 8:41am | 513U.S. interest rates have been on a steady downward trajectory since the 1980s. While that may imply fixed income investing has been easier or less risky than equities, the bond market environment has consistently changed. Exchange-traded funds have made rolling with those changes a little bit...
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Gundlach's DoubleLine Adds EM, Short Duration Bond ETFs
Saturday, April 16, 2016 - 8:32pm | 568Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Capital and State Street Corp (NYSE: STT)'s State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, tripled the size of their ETF partnership Thursday with the introduction of two new funds. The two new actively managed ETFs,...