fixed income ETFs

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched the latest salvo of the 2025 bond ETF boom on Thursday, rolling out the JPMorgan Active High Yield ETF (BATS:JPHY) with a jaw-dropping $2 billion in assets. Supported by a large institutional investor, the launch is the largest active ETF launch on record, and...

Emerging markets fixed income exchange-traded funds have been a popular destination for income-starved investors and that is true of those funds that hold bonds denominated in local currencies. With the dollar slumping against an array of developing world currencies, ETFs such as the VanEck Vectors...

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

Insurance providers are among the institutional investors driving exchange-traded funds growth, and data suggest there is plenty of room for insurers to play a significant role in the adoption of ETFs among professional investors. The Role Of Insurers “Insurers held just $19 billion in ETF...

It is often said that new exchange-traded funds struggle to attract an audience. Likewise, many industry observers are wondering the smart beta phenomenon will truly penetrate the fixed income space. The IQ Enhanced Core Plus Bond U.S. ETF (NYSE: AGGP) addresses both of those concerns. Now a year...

Interest rates are expected to continue rising in the United States with many market observers believing the Federal Reserve will follow up its March interest rate increase with one or two more rate hikes later this year. However, income investors are still looking for yield beyond U.S. government...

Although interest rates in many developed markets remain low, and in some cases negative, investors continue to look for somewhere to stash their cash, regardless of anemic interest rates. Resultantly, bond funds continue to thrive. One overlooked bond investment option some individuals might want...

More good, if not predictable, news on the growth front for exchange-traded funds. Fresh data from brokerage giant TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) indicate registered investment advisors (RIAs) continue allocating client assets to ETFs. Survey's In In its Institutional RIA Sentiment...

The 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...

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, and the corresponding exchange-traded funds have been a hot asset class this year. Inflation is an increasingly important topic for the Federal Reserve, and investors have been pouring billions of dollars into fixed income exchange-traded funds....

Many fixed income investments are viewed as conservative, but in today's potentially turbulent bond markets, it does not hurt to get some assistance. The SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF (NYSE: TOTL) is an exchange-traded fund that can do just that. Taking On TOTL TOTL, Jeff Gundlach...

Fixed income is one of the hottest corners of the exchange-traded funds industry this year, a trend some market observers believe will continue, particularly as professional investors look for more liquid alternatives to individual bonds. Bond ETFs “While bonds do not trade on an exchange,...

The VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (Market Vectors ETF Trust (NYSE: ANGL)), one of this year's hottest fixed income exchange-traded funds, is undergoing an important change later this month. In a move aimed at enhancing liquidity, ANGL's underlying index, BofA Merrill Lynch US...

Advisors and investors are piling into fixed income exchange-traded funds this year, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years as more institutional investors turn to bond ETFs. Through the first half of 2016, about $40 billion flowed into bond ETFs, with approximately half of that...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)'s J.P. Morgan Asset Management unit added its second new exchange-traded fund this week with the debut of the firm's first fixed income ETF on Thursday. The JPMorgan Disciplined High Yield ETF (NYSE: JPHY) is actively managed. JPHY holds only dollar-...