Academicians and practitioners have long relied on credit spreads—differences in the yields between various corporate debt instruments and government debts of equal maturity—to extract expectations of future
The chart below takes a more granular look at average yields based on maturity and credit rating. The corporate bond yield curves are more upward-sloping than the Treasury yield curve, so investors can earn higher yields by considering intermediate-term bonds rather than very short-term investment...
KARE, D. D. (1996): "Corporate Bond Maturity Decision: an Agency and Transaction Cost Explanation". Applied Financial Economics, 6, pp. 443-448.Kare,D.D.Corporate bond maturity decision: An agency and transaction cost explanation.Applied Financial Economics. 1996...
Overall Morningstar Rating for BGF Global Corporate Bond Fund, Class D5 Hedged, as of 31-May-2025 rated against 226 Global Corporate Bond - GBP Hedged Funds. Portfolio Managers Max Huefner Managing Director Max Huefner, Managing Director, is a Senior Portfolio Manager and the Head of Global Cr...
Overall Rating - Corporate Bond Category As of 04/30/2025 the Fund had an overall rating of 4 stars out of 170 funds and was rated 2 stars out of 170 funds, 4 stars out of 155 funds and 4 stars out of 96 funds for the 3-, 5- and 10- year periods, respectively. Morningstar...
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At least 70% of the Fund’s total assets will be issued by companies and will be investment grade (i.e. meet a specified level of credit worthiness) at the time of purchase. The remainder may include investments with a relatively low credit rating or which are unrated. ...
See more: Look to Small- and Midcap ETF Upside in FFSM Right now, with risk premia so high for equities, performance needs to match to justify that risk. Active fixed income may offer healthy yields and tight scrutiny of credit with comparatively less risk. A corporate bond ETF with an ...
The alternative approach of practitioners has been to infer fair yields from market yields of other traded instruments that are comparable with respect to rating and maturity. In the simplest application this gives rise to “matrix pricing” where the yield of a given issue is derived from a set...
The Global Corporate Bond Fund seeks to maximise total return. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in investment grade corporate fixed income securities issued by companies worldwide. Currency exposure is flexibly managed.