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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.
In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies. These bonds have a higher risk of default or other adverse credit events but offer higher yields than investment-grade bonds in order to compensate for the increased risk.
6 High-yield bonds. 7 Leveraged loans. ... 9.1 Lists. Toggle the table of contents. List of bond market indices. ... S&P US Issued High-Yield Corporate Bond Inex ...
The fund holds government bonds, high-quality corporate bonds and investment grade international dollar-denominated bonds. SEC yield: 4.83 percent Expense ratio: 0.04 percent
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 ...
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 ...
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.