VCIT News and Press, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 08/05/22

Given the weight of the evidence from the past decade of market performance, it makes sense that stocks should perform better if the Fed pivots from monetary tightening. The stock market continues to perform when the Fed is lifting interest rates. What is clear is that the time to...

In the housing market, activity levels have come down as rates - mortgage rates in particular - have moved higher and changed the dynamic around affordability. As rates have moved, investment-grade corporates are a longer-duration asset class that has really borne the brunt of higher ...

The Vanguard ESG U.S. Corporate Bond ETF follows the Bloomberg MSCI US Corporate SRI Select Index, which applies ESG factors to restrict its universe. The Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF invests without ESG rules applied. Both ETFs show a duration of around 7 years...

It's hard to ignore that global investment-grade corporate yields are currently the highest they've been since the global financial crisis. In addition to overall corporate well-being, business risk-taking is notably subdued. Balance sheets are healthy, free cash flow is expanding...

Now, most recently, the Russian war with Ukraine and its shock to energy and commodity markets, at a time when inflation was already running hot, has added greatly to investor concerns. While retirement planners and long-term liability managers often need to take on duration to hedge ...

We don’t expect the slowdown in economies to result in a deep global recession. A repeat of the big increases in bond yields we saw in the first half of the year is unlikely. In this environment, higher quality credit is more attractive. Despite increasing pressures on prof...

Inventories have risen recently and there has been a lot of commentary about how this will negatively impact the economy. My brief overview of markets is that large growth stocks are still overvalued even as they led the recent rally. The sentiment about the economy is still quite...

We highlight the top three behavioral biases to avoid in the new, volatile market regime - and give tips on how investors can try to overcome them. Stocks rallied and yields fell last week after markets concluded the Fed’s pace of rate hikes will slow. We are less sanguine and ...

Bonds went south in 2022 - all asset classes were negative, and investors received little benefit from international or non-US allocations (including EMs). As of June 30, according to Bloomberg data, EM credits were the worst-performing bond asset class YTD, returning -17.14%. The US ...

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF ( VCIT ) - $0.1966 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 4.61% as of July. 28. Payable Aug 04; for shareholders of record Aug 02; ex-div Aug 01. For further details see: Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly ...