SEIX News and Press, Virtus Seix Senior Loan ETF From 03/22/23

2023-03-22 14:00:00 ET Summary At the last FOMC announcement on February 1st, the Fed hiked base rates by 25 bps. After a decade of using their customer deposits for free, most institutions are unprepared for the rapid repricing. The appetite for loan securitization has dried ...

2023-03-21 10:14:38 ET Virtus Seix Senior Loan ETF ( NYSEARCA: SEIX ) - $0.1400 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 8.08% as of Feb 28. Payable Mar 28; for shareholders of record Mar 21; ex-div Mar 20. For further details see: Virtus Seix Senior Loan ETF declares monthly d...

Summary The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment added a stronger-than-expected 1.5 points to January’s strong gain to reach 66.4, the highest reading since January 2022. Beijing lashed out at President Joe Biden for saying Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces ‘enormous pr...

Summary Year-to-date, allocations to floating rate notes have resulted in a more than 20% performance differential compared to U.S. 10-Year notes. Rising rates explain why owning the same securities as the Agg but reducing the maturity profile (1–5 years) led to losses that...

Summary For the most part, 2022 has unfolded largely on script, with inflation proving stubborn and the Federal Reserve seeking to cut off the spigot. Despite the general monetary trend toward stiff tightening on a global basis, individual countries continue to initiate moves to s...

Summary Income investors seeking to boost yields often find themselves depending on higher-yielding investments such as bank loans, high-yield bonds and dividend-paying equities. The key to an efficient income portfolio is selecting the most impactful building blocks and assemblin...

Summary A global multi-sector approach can deliver much more than just international diversification. If investors are willing to expand their horizons, in our view, they stand a much better chance of meeting their investment goals. No single fixed-income sector can dominate year ...

Summary High yield has generated much higher returns than loans over long periods of time even though loans had comparable drawdowns during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the COVID bear market. High yield has outperformed loans by about 275 basis points per year for the tra...

Amid soaring inflation and dislocated markets, it may feel like investors are in the midst of a storm. Recent spread-widening has created one of the most attractive entry points for the sector since the great financial crisis. Spreads on senior securitized bonds rated AAA now rang...

Bank loans have floating rates. So in periods of rising rates, they offer low duration - or interest rate sensitivity. Bank loans tend to provide attractive yields, on par with “high yield” bonds, but with lower volatility and higher “seniority” in the capi...