IGOV News and Press, iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond From 10/04/23

2023-10-04 03:57:00 ET Summary The US economy has been more resilient than many pundits had anticipated over the past year—but can this resilience continue? The uncertainty surrounding a US government shutdown highlights the long-term challenge of fiscal stability. Shif...

2023-09-14 11:00:00 ET Summary Expanding the fixed-income opportunity set globally allows US investors to capture diversification, attractive yields, and potential returns. The global bond market offers more opportunities for active managers to add alpha and diversification source...

2023-08-18 13:15:04 ET U.S. Treasury yields continue their upward march, despite cooling off slightly on Friday and Bank of America’s global research team indicated that market participants continue to pour capital into the bond market. According to BofA, investors have injected anot...

2023-08-10 11:24:44 ET As investors try to predict the near-term policies for the world's major central banks, Invesco said Thursday that policymakers will remain hawkish despite what looks to be clear disinflation evidence. "We conclude that interest rate structures across most develop...

2023-07-28 12:43:59 ET The bond market experienced an overall increase in Treasury yields for the week. This came amid another Federal Reserve rate hike and further data on inflation and the overall economy. Below is a snapshot of moves that took place in the bond market this week: ...

2023-07-19 20:55:00 ET Summary Modern Portfolio Theory focuses on assembling the optimal group of assets to achieve the best return per unit of risk. Diversification works well because it blends short and long duration instruments thereby reducing the overall average duration. ...

2023-07-03 22:27:00 ET Summary Central banks are finding it hard to finish the long journey toward inflation normalization, but we believe that policy rates are likely at or near their peaks - and could be maintained at elevated levels for some time. With roughly 500 basis points ...

2023-04-10 04:59:00 ET Summary The historically low correlation between equity and government bond returns is a cornerstone of modern investment strategy and the traditional 60%/40% model portfolio, based on the theory this split provides diversification benefits that can improve risk...

2023-03-27 22:32:00 ET Summary This widespread belief that monetary aggregates are uninformative is incorrect. This widespread belief has resulted in governments not estimating monetary aggregates, or else estimating them for a much narrower set of series than in prior years. ...

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...