VTC News and Press, Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF From 03/12/21

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released Wednesday puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 1.68%. It is below the 3.76% average since the end of the Second World War and below its 10-year moving average, now at 1.73%. Our long-term inflation charts reach bac...

One of the interesting things during the period when Treasury yields were rising was that all of the risk assets were compressing against Treasuries. There is virtually no spread in any of the credit indexes that pays the buyer for the credit risk. The spreads are just off historic lo...

For credit markets, the returns just kept coming in 2020 once the Fed stepped in with its strong policy support in late March. With strong returns in the fourth quarter, both investment grade and high yield corporate markets in the U.S. ended the year with positive returns over equiva...

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF (VTC) - $0.1688.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.86% as of Feb.24.Payable Mar 04; for shareholders of record Mar 02; ex-div Mar 01. For further details see: Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1688

BlackRock’s iShares Trust has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to launch an exchange traded fund called the iShares BBB Rated Corporate Bond ETF. The fund will seek to track the investment results of an index composed of BBB or equivalent fixed-rate dollar-d...

VTC is for investors wanting exposure to Investment-Grade Corporate bonds across all maturities.  The ETF is actually a combination of three other Vanguard Corporate bond ETFs. We will look at the three component ETFs individually and combined as the final product ETF.  I wi...

2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF (VTC) - $0.1878.Payable Apr 04; for shareholders of record Feb 02; ex-div Feb 01. For further details see: Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1878

Junk bond sales are poised to break records for January, with month-to-date sales at ~$1.2B below the current January record of $37B.There's still a week to go in the month and plenty of deals in the offing.Yields on CCC debt, the riskiest level of high-yield bonds, touched an all-time low on...

For the fund-flows week ended Jan. 13, some investors veered to fixed-income securities that were either tied to inflation or adjust for rising yields, while others remained in search of yield, said Tom Roseen, head of Research Services at Refinitiv Lipper.For the flows week, investors inject...