IGSB News and Press, iShares Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 07/30/21

For the first time in seven weeks, market participants were overall net buyers of fund assets, including both conventional funds and exchange traded funds totaling $29B as presented in the latest Refinitiv Lipper U.S. fund flow insight report for the week of July 28, 2021. In dissecting the d...

Recently, downticks in Treasury yields are being met with selling pressure in value indexes and stocks. The stock market can’t make up its mind. Does it want high yields or low yields? This confusion is because inflation numbers are rising and interest rates are falling, which ...

While no one can reliably predict how any given mutual fund/ETF can do a year or more in advance, I have a long record of long-term success at recommending winners. As a further test of that, I looked at the performance of my long-standing 20 fund recommendations as well as 60 newer r...

Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...

For a number of years prior to the COVID crisis, U.K.- and EU-based investors viewed currency hedging costs as a massive barrier to investing in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds. Looking at investment-grade corporate bonds in different currencies, the EUR credit index currently has an av...

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

Growth-oriented asset classes are likely to shine, but not equally. Above-trend growth is a supportive environment of risky assets like equities or credit. On valuation grounds, equities are looking a little cheaper. Geraldine Sundstrom and Erin Browne discuss PIMCO’s views...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to push higher in June, based on the annualized Sharpe ratio for a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. GMI’s 10-year SR increased to 0.84, the highest in 18 months. GMI is an unmanaged, market-value...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) resumed an upward drift in June, rising to an annualized 6.0%. The current risk premium forecast for GMI - 6.0% - suggests that multi-asset-class strategies will generate lower returns relative to results posted in recent yea...

iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (IGSB) - $0.0686.30-Day SEC Yield of 0.86% as of June 29.Payable Jul 08; for shareholders of record Jul 02; ex-div Jul 01. For further details see: iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of ...