VCLT News and Press, Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 10/08/20

Now is the best time in 10 years to invest in REITs. You could buy an ETF and be done with it, or select individual REITs to build your own portfolio. We discuss the many flaws of REIT ETFs and present an individual REIT opportunity to consider today. For further details see...

With stocks and bonds becoming unreliable, increasingly many investors are turning to rental properties in 2020. In this article, we discuss another alternative: Publicly-traded REITs, which are similar to rentals, but in many ways are even better investments. We highlight two REI...

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCLT) - $0.2711.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.98% as of Sept 28.Payable Oct 06; for shareholders of record Oct 02; ex-div Oct 01. For further details see: Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.2711

Using the Mar. 23 bottom in US stocks (S&P 500) as a general trough date, Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond has dominated the bounce in fixed income. Various flavors of Treasuries are the weakest performers since the March bottom, although all slices of US fixed-income are current...

The Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF blends the safety of treasuries and the higher yield potential of corporate bonds. Compared to VCLT, BLV is better balanced and more effective at diversifying a portfolio, at the expense of yields that are 60 bps lower. BLV best serves one specific ...

The Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF has crossed my radar as a source of higher monthly cash payments in a zero-rate environment. Today, I look at some of the main reasons why an income-seeking investors may want to buy (or avoid) shares of VCLT. In the specific case of those...

"Japanification" is the process of other countries' economies becoming like that of Japan: flatlined, with little to no growth or inflation and interest rates stuck at zero indefinitely. Because of the Monetary Death Spiral process that I've described elsewhere, many countries around ...

Income investors face a wide variety of investment options, each featuring many different characteristics. This panoply can make it difficult to construct a portfolio with a desired profile. In this article we take a look at the key investment characteristics of credit funds, their interaction...

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. —Thomas Sowell Macroeconomic Thesis In the past, on multiple occasions, I've written about how the United States' enormous national debt burden will slow economic growth going forward. Academic studies have demonstrated that, a...

By Renato Latini, CFA The unprecedented global monetary and fiscal responses to the pandemic resulted in a swift compression of corporate credit spreads. However, we believe the progression of the economic cycle is giving way to further opportunities in cyclical sectors. Dramatic Spread ...