SPSB News and Press, SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond From 07/21/21

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

Growth-oriented asset classes are likely to shine, but not equally. Above-trend growth is a supportive environment of risky assets like equities or credit. On valuation grounds, equities are looking a little cheaper. Geraldine Sundstrom and Erin Browne discuss PIMCO’s views...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to push higher in June, based on the annualized Sharpe ratio for a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. GMI’s 10-year SR increased to 0.84, the highest in 18 months. GMI is an unmanaged, market-value...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) resumed an upward drift in June, rising to an annualized 6.0%. The current risk premium forecast for GMI - 6.0% - suggests that multi-asset-class strategies will generate lower returns relative to results posted in recent yea...

SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF (SPSB) - $0.0266.30-Day SEC Yield of 0.47% as of June 29.Payable Jul 08; for shareholders of record Jul 02; ex-div Jul 01. For further details see: SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0266

The primary market has not been the avenue for quick spread-tightening that it was in the spring of last year, when the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Investment Grade Credit Index was at 200 basis points. This year has been different. With most countries coming out of lockdowns and rolling ...

A more hawkish Fed may not lift Treasury or investment grade credit yields, and that raises important questions for fixed income investors and asset allocators. The central bank raised its inflation forecast for 2022. Should last week’s change of tone put some of those infl...

Over the past year, a surge of investors drove high-yield bond prices back to pre-pandemic levels. The potential for a double-dip should increase insurance companies’ appetite for juicier high-yield offerings. While high yield improved its lot through the pandemic, some inv...

Photo by pabradyphoto/iStock via Getty Images The Federal Reserve is set to start unloading shares of exchange traded fund holdings that it accumulated during the pandemic. As of Wednesday last week, the Feds plan is to begin selling its positions in corporate debt over the remainder of the 2...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...