VCLT News and Press, Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 10/28/19

Note: this article was originally released several weeks ago. The S&P 500 index is probably the most frequently used market benchmark in the world and many investors, particularly those who operate within equities, compare their investment results to this index. And as many investors h...

The long-running bull market in bonds continues to defy bearish forecasts, as shown by a set of exchange-traded funds. Positive year-to-date performance in all the major corners of fixed income continues to offer a stark counterpoint to analysts who expect trouble. Long-term corporate bonds ...

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Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCLT ) - $0.3145 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.64% as of Sept. 26. Payable Oct 04; for shareholders of record Oct 02; ex-div Oct 01. More news on: Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

What's keeping long-dated bonds at the head of this year's performance ledger for fixed-income markets? Recession worries still top the list, although nervous investors can point to this week's renewed prospects for impeaching Trump as a factor too. Whatever the driver, year-to-date returns fo...

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCLT ) - $0.3389 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.58% as of Aug. 28. Payable Sep 06; for shareholders of record Sep 04; ex-div Sep 03. More news on: Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

While equities posted strong returns on Wednesday, the 30-year Treasury yield rallied to a new all-time low yield market of 1.90% intraday. The move felt notably different than the risk-off, flight-to-quality rallies during episodic ratcheting of the rhetoric around the global trade tensions i...

ETF Overview Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF ( VCLT ) focuses on long-term investment grade corporate bonds in the United States. The ETF tracks the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index. The fund holds bonds between 10 and 30 years until maturity. VCLT has very low cre...

American pensions are in trouble. A Wilshire Consulting Report from 2017 shows that 97% of the 103 state pension funds that report actuarial values were underfunded. The "funded ratio" — that is, the percentage of liabilities (promised benefits) covered by current assets (funds av...