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2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

Credit markets have staged an epic rebound from the depths of March 2020. But in a low-growth, low-yield world, we believe there may be more room to run in 2021. For investors, we believe a nimble, selective approach will be especially important to grasp the opportunities presente...

A long history of extremely low yields in Japan suggests that low yields do not necessarily map to low returns. Amid the dramatic sell-off in risk assets in March 2020 as the global pandemic took hold, and again in September 2020 when equity markets pulled back sharply, government bon...

With the exception of broadly defined commodities and US and foreign property shares, global markets posted solid gains last year. US stocks were the top 2020 performers, with the Russell 3000 Index surging 20.9% last year. US REITs saw the deepest loss for the major asset classes...

Broad US equities continued their momentum from Q2 following the dramatic COVID-19-driven decline earlier in the year. The S&P 500 rose 9% in Q3 after a 20% rise in Q2. Value-oriented stocks underperformed the broader market on concerns about economic fragility, the expiration of ...

VanEck partners with Moody's Analytics on two new funds, the VanEck Vectors Moody's Analytics IG Corporate Bond ETF and the VanEck Vectors Moody's Analytics BBB Corporate Bond ETF. Both funds focus on investment grade corporates. One is broad, and one is strictly in the crowded BBB sp...

The COVID-19 related sell-off in corporate bonds in Q1 2020 caused some commentators to express concern about the liquidity and functionality of fixed income ETFs, led by corporate bond ETFs. Widening discounts between corporate bond ETFs and NAV pricing after COVID-19 was cited as fu...

The bond markets are in the midst of a feeding frenzy. U.S. high-yield bond sales reached an annual record of $329.8 billion for the year, with three months left to go. The high yield's market's record year follows the U.S. investment-grade bond market, which reached a new record ...

I have long described our current investing environment as a "Borrower's Paradise" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." The situation has not changed and continues along unabated. The reason for this is really just one thing, the Fed. The reason for their posture is also just really one thing...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist The ripple effects of COVID-19 are impacting a wide variety of markets, and investors have lots of questions. Among them: Will production facilities leave China for other markets? What fixed income opportunities have been created by ce...