SHYL News and Press, Xtrackers Short Duration High Yield Bond From 07/13/19

To many onlookers, since the great financial crisis, the world of fixed income securities has become an alien landscape. Yields on government bonds have fallen steadily across all developed markets. As the chart below reveals, there is now a record US$13trln+ of negative-yielding fixed income ...

One of the lessons of the past few decades' boom/bust cycles is that each financial bubble emerges in a different asset class. In the 1970s it was precious metals, in the 1980s junk bonds, in the 1990s tech stocks and in the 2000s mortgage-backed bonds. Today, the only one of these with a re...

DWS Group today announced that 15 of its Xtrackers exchange-traded funds (ETFs) will be available commission-free on TD Ameritrade’s ETF Market Center, including the high-yield and China A-share suites on June 3, 2019. “We are pleased to be able to provide our Xtrackers ETF...

By Vladimir Nikulin, CFA During the last week, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF ( HYG ) declined by 0.46% primarily due to monthly dividend payments last week. HYG's underlying portfolio demonstrated neutral performance (0.0%) due to lack of positive news during the last w...

By Gershon Distenfeld and Will Smith The S&P 500 Index hit an all-time high on April 23, thanks to improving investor optimism. But for some equity investors, market highs signal a good time to reduce downside risk. There are additional reasons investors may want to trim their sails....

By Matthew Sheridan As economic cycles enter their later stages, investors sometimes find that they're taking too much risk to generate income. There's a strategy that can help - and we think now is the time to use it. Pairing high-yield corporate bonds and other credit assets with high-...

By Nick Maroutsos Nick Maroutsos, Co-Head of Global Bonds, explains why higher yields on shorter-dated bonds may prove attractive for income-focused investors rattled by rising equity market volatility. Perhaps simply "queasiness" is more fitting. Certainly, that's an apt feeling among...

Posted by Gregory Rawls, CFA, CAIA, Senior Investment Research Analyst on Feb. 22, 2019, in Fixed Income From June 2017 to June 2018, customers withdrew more than $30 billion from US bank accounts that didn't earn interest - the first decline in more than a decade. 1 Some of tha...

Just like the broader market this week, the rally in high yield credit stalled out a bit. Earlier on Friday, we highlighted the fact that the S&P 500 ran into resistance right at its 200-DMA earlier this week and has been pulling back ever since. In the case of the ETF that tracks the hi...