HYZD News and Press, WisdomTree Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond Fund From 06/23/21

As of the June FOMC meeting, there are now seven policymakers projecting the first increase to occur in 2022, up from just four at the March gathering. It only needs three more members to move into the 2022 camp for the Fed Funds estimate to change. Investors did get to see a snap...

The question is - given the low in March ’09 and the previous highs exceeded in late April ’13 - is the secular bull market 13 years old or just a little over 8 years old, and does it matter? Not only are the S&P 500 and Nasdaq bumping all-time highs, but Europe and ...

The Fed is still apparently in no hurry to remove its unprecedented accommodation, BUT some members do seem to be ready to put a timeline of sorts together to move slowly in that direction. In no surprise, the voting members “marked to market” their policy statement, as ...

This morning we learned that US retail spending fell 1.3% in May (more than the -.80 expected). Commodities have been sensing the shift, with the price of many key inputs like lumber (-42%), steel rebar (-18%) and copper (-9%) down sharply from recent peaks. Increases in oil, gas ...

Over the past year, a surge of investors drove high-yield bond prices back to pre-pandemic levels. The potential for a double-dip should increase insurance companies’ appetite for juicier high-yield offerings. While high yield improved its lot through the pandemic, some inv...

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...

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...

Diversification remains key. Flexible strategies can also take advantage of a more uncertain yield and spread environment. We continue to find reasonable opportunity in both public and private credit markets. We find value in non-agency mortgages and prefer cyclicals to growth sto...

WisdomTree Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond Fund (HYZD) - $0.0750.30-Day SEC Yield of 0.03% as of April. 26.Payable Apr 29; for shareholders of record Apr 27; ex-div Apr 26. For further details see: WisdomTree Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond Fund declares monthly distribution o...

In today’s low-yield landscape, income investors find themselves depending on higher-yielding investments such as bank loans, high-yield bonds and dividend-paying equities. Reaching for yield can be especially dangerous for income investors because of sequence risk - the risk o...