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 for bonds continue to show that long maturities are running well ahead of the rest of the field, based on a set of ETFs that span the US fixed-income markets.
This year's top performer by a solid margin: the Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF ([[VCLT]]). The fund stumbled earlier this month