IGOV News and Press, iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond From 01/17/23

Summary BWX is part of a class of ETFs that investors could be excused for ignoring since at least 2018, if not several years prior. This ETF buys government bonds from many nations, just not from the US. That makes BWX a potential beneficiary of 2 big trend reversals: rising intere...

Summary Markets may be underestimating the stickiness of inflation and central banks’ determination to beat it - and what that means for growth and corporate earnings potential. We favor fixed income and credit over equities, and investment grade over high yield. Should infla...

Summary A historic 2022 taught us to widen the lens of possible scenarios, factor in geopolitical risk and use a new playbook for more frequent portfolio changes. Global stocks ended the year down 18%, while bonds fell 16%. This marked the biggest market storm in decades amid inflation ...

Summary Amid the crosscurrents, two themes have prevailed during the post-pandemic years, which lend some perspective to the macroeconomic roadmap ahead: namely, the bipolar swings in macro policy and the forces of economic normalization. After one of the worst years for fixed income as...

Summary Rate hikes and tighter financial conditions drove fixed-income returns lower in 2022. The broad repricing of bonds and the higher starting yields we have now can help insulate investors from further losses. If we look at international bonds, this is probably the first ...

Summary Year-to-date, allocations to floating rate notes have resulted in a more than 20% performance differential compared to U.S. 10-Year notes. Rising rates explain why owning the same securities as the Agg but reducing the maturity profile (1–5 years) led to losses that...

Summary The current investing environment has been especially challenging due to the fact most investment vehicles have generated a negative return this year. At current equity market levels and given the extent of the three-quarter decline this year, historical market performance...

Summary The Great Financial Crisis taught us about the extraordinary capacity of central bank balance sheets and fiscal authorities to absorb financial shocks and mitigate the effect of massive deleveraging. The politicians and monetary policymakers have become too used to their s...

Summary With inflation dominating the global landscape, asset-class diversification has been fleeting. It’s tempting for US investors to focus on their home-field yield advantage and forego opportunities abroad. We believe that by expanding the fixed-income opportunity ...

Summary A global strategy does a better job of providing the stability, income and diversification against riskier equities that investors expect from a core bond portfolio. Currency hedging can be implemented cheaply and effectively with currency forwards and futures. Today, ...