IGBH News and Press, iShares Interest Rate Hedged Long-Term Corporate Bond

2024-07-22 03:40:00 ET Summary Corporate high-yield credit spreads tightened again this week to +309, down from +323 on July 5th, +324 on June 21, and +342 on April 19 ’24. Gradually tightening corporate high-yield credit spreads imply a US economy that remains in reasonabl...

2024-07-18 09:40:00 ET Summary Typically, higher yield bonds have more correlation with equities, and investment grade bonds correlate with Treasuries. Corporate bond futures allow investors to more precisely manage risk. Unlike U.S. Treasuries, corporate bonds are not backed ...

2024-07-12 12:00:00 ET Summary We see a new wave of investment into the real economy, transforming economies and markets. We look for investments that can do well across scenarios and lean into the current most likely one. We stay dynamic and ready to overhaul asset allocation...

2024-07-11 23:45:47 ET Summary IGBH is an interest rate hedged investment-grade bond ETF. It has a strong 7.5% yield, and has outperformed most of its peers since inception. Although potential Fed cuts are a headwind, the fund trades with a sizable spread to its peers, so outp...

2024-07-11 12:45:00 ET Summary Public markets offer potentially healthy opportunities for excess returns (alpha) given structural inefficiencies and macroeconomic volatility driven by divergent global growth and inflation paths. Public fixed income liquidity remains robust, aided by i...

2024-07-03 08:50:00 ET Summary Volatility has recently ticked higher as central bank policies start to diverge and as market participants try to divine the timing and magnitude of central bank rate cuts. Investors should get comfortable with evolving policy expectations and data s...

2024-06-28 09:15:00 ET Summary Longer-term government bonds, corporate bonds, and stocks have historically returned more than cash. One of the risks of short-term investing is not being able to reinvest the money at the same rate. Reinvestment risk is among the biggest challen...

2024-06-28 00:45:00 ET Summary During the second quarter of 2024, the Treasury market experienced heightened volatility as market participants tried to predict when the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates. The 10-year Treasury yield fluctuated between a high of 4.70...

2024-06-26 10:15:00 ET Summary Opportunities in corporate bonds. Rate cuts have started; what does that mean for corporate bonds? The impact of falling interest rates on fixed income. The recent lowering of interest rates by the Bank of Canada and the Europea...

2024-06-08 00:01:00 ET Summary Coming into 2024, many income investors expected falling inflation, slowing economic growth and rate cuts that would boost bond returns- a view that spurred record flows into investment-grade bonds. Despite a slow start to the year for bonds, fixed i...