BHK News and Press, Blackrock Core Bond Trust From 07/17/18

The yield on the 3-month US Treasury bill is pushing above 2% today for the first time since 2008. The yield had briefly dipped below zero as recently as late 2015. Although today's yield seems high, this Great Graphic shows the nominal generic three-month yield going back to 1990. The...

I. Key Principles and Decisions on Which This Portfolio Is Based: Create a "buy and hold" portfolio that does not require frequent attention. Create income exclusively, avoiding a reliance on capital appreciation for any portion of the return. Focus on avoidance of capital impairment...

Fund Overview – The BlackRock Core Bond Trust ( BHK ) (Source: Fund Factsheet ) With diversified holdings in corporate bonds, this closed-end fund seeks to deliver high current income and capital gains to its investors. While the vast majority of the holdings are investment grade, ...

This week I took a long hard look at the survey results and a series of other charts, because they all seemed to be challenging my medium term views and biases. Not only that, they seem to be flying in the face of a range of crowded and consensus trades. In short, the bond selloff is being c...

For a passive bond fund, BlackRock's $55B iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: AGG ) requires a lot of decision-making to create a fund that comes close to mimicking the performance of the underlying index, Bloomberg reports . More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market E...

Taking to Twitter as the 10-year Treasury yield spikes up to a new multi-year high of 3.06% (and the 30-year hits 3.20%), Bill Gross says the economy can't support 10- and 30-year yields at higher than 3.25%, nor the 5-year above 3% (it's up to 2.90% today). More news on: iShares Core To...

U.S. fixed-income ETFs saw $14.7B of inflows in April, according to BlackRock , bringing AUM to just over $600B. It's the largest monthly inflow since October 2014. More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunit...

Bonds are an important part of portfolios, even if in small amounts. They serve to moderate volatility and minimize maximum drawdowns. Over the past 35 years, bonds have generated interest income and capital appreciation as interest rates declined from very high to very low levels. We are now ...

In today's edition of items a bond bull doesn't want to see, the WSJ reports U.S. employers as turning to teens in the face of an historic labor shortage. More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund,...

via Lisa Abramawicz More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs, Read more ...