IGLB News and Press, Shares Long-Term Corporate Bond From 10/05/21

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in September for the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged, market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset classes (except cash). GMI’s 0.97 Sharpe ratio is close to the highest levels reached in recent history. ...

Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...

iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:IGLB) - $0.1840. 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.04% as of Sept. 29. Payable Oct 07; for shareholders of record Oct 04; ex-div Oct 01. For further details see: iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly dist...

Global markets suffered their broadest retreat in a year during September. The bullish exception: commodities, which delivered a solid gain last month. Notably, US stocks and bonds lost ground, giving support to concerns that the historical diversification benefits of pairing the two ...

How to achieve a respectable income without taking on too much risk. What's the right risk/yield trade-off for reasonable income? Will '80s-style inflation return? For further details see: The Great Fixed Income Challenge: Balancing Yield And Risk In A Low-Rate World

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...

When making historical comparisons, it’s important to consider how things have evolved compared to past periods. With respect to investment grade, the story isn’t a good one. Today, despite a favorable growth backdrop and expectations for low defaults, we believe the ris...

Given the sizeable skew in the distribution of outcomes toward negative real returns, it's extremely important to be selective in high-quality fixed income, and to be truly vested in one’s investments so that portfolios are not permanently impaired. In the short term, the commo...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...

iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:IGLB) - $0.1776. 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.00% as of Aug 31. Payable Sep 08; for shareholders of record Sep 02; ex-div Sep 01. For further details see: iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distri...