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The Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund invests in medium and lower-quality corporate bonds. The fund managers invest in what they consider to be higher-rated junk bonds.
The credit rating is a financial indicator to potential investors of debt securities such as bonds.These are assigned by credit rating agencies such as Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch, which publish code designations (such as AAA, B, CC) to express their assessment of the risk quality of a bond.
High grade corporate bonds usually trade at market interest rate but low grade corporate bonds usually trade on credit spread. [12] Credit spread is the difference in yield between the corporate bond and a Government bond of similar maturity or duration (e.g. for US Dollar corporates, US Treasury bonds).
Municipal bonds, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are excluded, due to tax treatment issues. The index includes Treasury securities, Government agency bonds, Mortgage-backed bonds, Corporate bonds, and a number of foreign bonds traded in U.S. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is an intermediate term index.
Diversification: Corporate bonds come in a wide variety of types, depending on maturity (short, medium and long) and rating quality (investment-grade or high-yield). A bond ETF allows you to buy ...
The fund holds government bonds, high-quality corporate bonds and investment grade international dollar-denominated bonds. SEC yield: 4.47 percent Expense ratio: 0.04 percent
Moody's Ratings rates debt securities in several bond market segments. These include government, municipal and corporate bonds; managed investments such as money market funds and fixed-income funds; financial institutions including banks and non-bank finance companies; and asset classes in structured finance. [3]
A high-yield corporate bond offers higher interest rates than a typical corporate bond because it carries a higher risk of default. The “high yield” refers to the greater interest or coupon ...