KHYB News and Press, KraneShares Asia Pacific High Yield Bond ETF From 06/27/23

2023-06-27 03:05:00 ET Summary Striking the right balance between interest-rate and credit risk can be a good idea in the late stages of a credit cycle. We think it’s a particularly good idea in this credit cycle. Why? Consider that over the last 18 months, investors have g...

2023-06-13 03:30:00 ET Summary ESG-labeled bonds have come a long way quickly, and innovation shows no signs of slowing. Given the SLB market's nascency, its sample size is significantly smaller. The good SLBs can offer compelling yield and close alignment with investors' ESG ...

2023-06-02 04:30:00 ET Summary Emerging market (EM) fixed income has evolved into a more robust asset class since the 1990s, showing limited contagion and more tiering of credit spreads during the Covid crisis. Factors such as central banks adopting quantitative easing, longer ave...

2023-05-31 01:55:00 ET Summary Historically, we have requested for executive compensation to be tied to financial metrics, such as return on invested capital and earnings per share growth. However, companies are now increasing the resources spent on measuring, disclosing, and sett...

2023-05-26 03:30:00 ET Summary Borrowing by the Asian region’s governments, companies, consumers, and financial firms is well above levels prior to the global financial crisis. In particular, industries that rapidly increased leverage while interest rates were low are now a...

2023-05-23 23:16:00 ET Summary The idea of bunting (“small ball”) in baseball is that you can, somewhat counterintuitively, build a game-winning strategy through conservative positioning. Since the GFC, financial markets had fallen into a dynamic whereby if economic ...

2023-05-19 03:30:00 ET Summary Emerging markets' local currency bonds continue to outpace their developed markets counterparts. Spreads among EM banks do not appear to indicate stress. General risk aversion and volatility have historically impacted “risk-on” asse...

2023-05-18 23:51:00 ET Summary The Fed remains the straw that stirs the drink. When it stirs this vigorously, stuff happens. For the first time in 15 years, investors are offered 5% returns on near-cash instruments, such as money market funds. By increasing holdings of (nearly...

2023-05-05 02:45:00 ET Summary As bond yields rose in 2022, investors sought refuge in high-yield bank loans, whose floating coupons are often heralded as an antidote to rising rates. But with conditions shaping up differently in 2023, bank loans may face challenges. We think ...

2023-05-02 14:27:00 ET Summary The distressed debt market may present opportunities if default probabilities are overestimated and recovery values are underestimated, as we believe they are. In the high-beta bucket, our largest overweight positions are in Egypt, Argentina, and Ang...