FISR News and Press, SPDR SSGA Fixed Income Sector Rotation ETF From 06/18/21

Slow vaccine rollouts threaten to take a sizable human toll and create deep, lasting economic scars across emerging markets. Productivity sets the boundaries for a country’s sustainable debt. The COVID-19 pandemic has been universally devastating, with some EMs at risk of l...

From a consumer perspective, the consumer is actually now demanding a focus on environmental, social, governance factors. If public expectations for inflation do rise, that is going to be a change from years past. There’s going to be an opportunity to make medical progress ...

At first sight, the yield increase in emerging markets local bonds so far this year is not significantly out of line with what we saw in developed markets. In some cases (the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Korea), central banks are already expected to tighten monetary policy. G...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

With numerous options for accessing hard currency debt, the diversified opportunity set allows for more efficient management of concentration risks. We also believe there is a strong disconnect between perceived and actual risk in EM hard currency debt. Although EM credit metrics ...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

SPDR SSGA Fixed Income Sector Rotation ETF (FISR) - $0.0475.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.05% as of May 28.Payable Jun 07; for shareholders of record Jun 02; ex-div Jun 01. For further details see: SPDR SSGA Fixed Income Sector Rotation ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0475

As most financial asset returns continue their relentless march higher in 2021, amid new waves of fiscal and monetary stimulus, investors are increasingly being forced to confront the growing tension between their wants (assets purchased with a margin of safety) and their needs (income). ...

Oil, stocks and gold all cannot rise without a corresponding rise in UST yields. The idea that inflation hedge and risk assets can be up but yields down is untenable. A rise in US yields and stronger USD short circuits emerging market economies especially those with USD currency board...