MLQD News and Press, iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond

Low and likely falling interest rates coupled with tight credit spreads are limiting the bond market's upside and leaving investors searching for alternative sources of yield. While investors often have specific allocations to corporate bonds and high yield debt, not all portfolios include ded...

By Matt Brill, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Portfolio Manager As yields across the globe plummet, many investors are now actually paying someone to take their money. Currently, there are more than $12 trillion of bonds with negative yields outstanding which equal 24% of the global bo...

By Ansh Chaudhary For the month of May, the ETF Deathwatch increased in size. Twenty-nine exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 19 funds were removed, making May a busier month in terms of additions. Of the removals, 16 were removed due to increased health and three...

By David M. Brown, CFA, Co-Head of Global Investment Grade Fixed Income; Stephen J. Flaherty, CFA, Director of Research, Global Investment Grade Credit; Kristin C. Cejda, Senior Research Analyst, Global Investment Grade Credit; Christopher M. Oshewolo, CFA, Senior Research Analyst, Global Inv...

Before the last January '18, February '18 plunge in the equity markets, the S&P 500 peaked on January 26, 2018, at 2,872 - 2,873. With Friday night's close at 2,945, the total gain for the S&P 500 (excluding dividends) is 2.5% from that January '18 peak. That is a paltry return for t...

You read the headlines, "The Markets are going to Hell," and "The Markets will be down 30% by Year-End" and "We are entering a Recession" and all of the rest of the dribble that comes floating along in the Press. Every time I see this stuff my eyes bob up and down and I stare at the ceiling. N...