VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 10/05/21

EDV invests in U.S. treasuries with a maturity between 20 and 30 years. This is a high-risk segment of bonds exposed to significant volatility against climbing interest rates. Macro factors including continued post-pandemic economic growth amid high inflation suggest more upside f...

Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...

Global markets suffered their broadest retreat in a year during September. The bullish exception: commodities, which delivered a solid gain last month. Notably, US stocks and bonds lost ground, giving support to concerns that the historical diversification benefits of pairing the two ...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCSH) - $0.1078. 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.85% as of Sep 29. Payable Oct 06; for shareholders of record Oct 04; ex-div Oct 01. For further details see: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1078

VCSH is a short-term corporate bond index ETF. The fund yields 1.7%, has little interest rate exposure, and could see higher yields as interest rates increase. An overview of the fund follows. For further details see: VCSH: Strong, Simple, Cheap Short-Term Corporate Bond...

How to achieve a respectable income without taking on too much risk. What's the right risk/yield trade-off for reasonable income? Will '80s-style inflation return? For further details see: The Great Fixed Income Challenge: Balancing Yield And Risk In A Low-Rate World

Uncertainty remains elevated for the economy, inflation, monetary policy, and the path of the pandemic as the final quarter of 2021 approaches. Leading the winners in this year’s bond market race: junk bonds and inflation-indexed government securities. A key factor for bond...

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...

When making historical comparisons, it’s important to consider how things have evolved compared to past periods. With respect to investment grade, the story isn’t a good one. Today, despite a favorable growth backdrop and expectations for low defaults, we believe the ris...

Given the sizeable skew in the distribution of outcomes toward negative real returns, it's extremely important to be selective in high-quality fixed income, and to be truly vested in one’s investments so that portfolios are not permanently impaired. In the short term, the commo...