EFIX News and Press, First Trust TCW Emerging Markets Debt ETF From 06/02/23

2023-06-02 04:30:00 ET Summary Emerging market (EM) fixed income has evolved into a more robust asset class since the 1990s, showing limited contagion and more tiering of credit spreads during the Covid crisis. Factors such as central banks adopting quantitative easing, longer ave...

2023-05-31 01:55:00 ET Summary Historically, we have requested for executive compensation to be tied to financial metrics, such as return on invested capital and earnings per share growth. However, companies are now increasing the resources spent on measuring, disclosing, and sett...

2023-05-26 03:30:00 ET Summary Borrowing by the Asian region’s governments, companies, consumers, and financial firms is well above levels prior to the global financial crisis. In particular, industries that rapidly increased leverage while interest rates were low are now a...

2023-05-23 23:16:00 ET Summary The idea of bunting (“small ball”) in baseball is that you can, somewhat counterintuitively, build a game-winning strategy through conservative positioning. Since the GFC, financial markets had fallen into a dynamic whereby if economic ...

2023-05-19 03:30:00 ET Summary Emerging markets' local currency bonds continue to outpace their developed markets counterparts. Spreads among EM banks do not appear to indicate stress. General risk aversion and volatility have historically impacted “risk-on” asse...

2023-05-18 23:51:00 ET Summary The Fed remains the straw that stirs the drink. When it stirs this vigorously, stuff happens. For the first time in 15 years, investors are offered 5% returns on near-cash instruments, such as money market funds. By increasing holdings of (nearly...

2023-05-05 02:45:00 ET Summary As bond yields rose in 2022, investors sought refuge in high-yield bank loans, whose floating coupons are often heralded as an antidote to rising rates. But with conditions shaping up differently in 2023, bank loans may face challenges. We think ...

2023-05-02 14:27:00 ET Summary The distressed debt market may present opportunities if default probabilities are overestimated and recovery values are underestimated, as we believe they are. In the high-beta bucket, our largest overweight positions are in Egypt, Argentina, and Ang...

2023-05-01 09:45:00 ET Summary We see bond yields staying high in the new macro regime - that means income is back as a portfolio driver. We stay nimble and granular across fixed income. U.S. stocks rallied from a four-week low last week after tech earnings beat. Yields fell even ...

2023-04-24 15:00:57 ET First Trust TCW Emerging Markets Debt ETF ( NYSEARCA: EFIX ) - $0.0900 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 7.15% as of March. 31. Payable Apr 28; for shareholders of record Apr 24; ex-div Apr 21. For further details see: First Trust TCW Emerging Mark...