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The index was acquired by Bloomberg L.P. in August 2016 as part of a larger sale of the bank's index and risk analytics business. The index was subsequently renamed the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index. Upon its acquisition, Bloomberg and Barclays announced that the index would be co-branded for an initial term of five years. [5]
Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury Index; ... (Credit Suisse) First Boston High-Yield II Index; S&P US Issued High-Yield Corporate Bond Inex; Leveraged loans
The BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index (H0A0) is a bond index for high-yield corporate bonds. [1] It is administered by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.The Master II is a measure of the broad high yield market, unlike the Merrill Lynch BB/B Index, which excludes lower-rated securities. [2]
ICE Bank of America US High Yield Total Return Index, [5] Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Total Return Index, [6] S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index, [7] and; FTSE US High-Yield Market Index. [8] Some investors, preferring to dedicate themselves to higher-rated and less-risky investments, use an index that only includes ...
The "Sherman ratio" is the yield offered per unit of bond duration, named after DoubleLine Capital's chief investment officer, Jeffrey Sherman. [29] It has been called the "Bond Market's Scariest Gauge", and hit an all-time low of 0.1968 for the Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Bond Index on Dec 31, 2020. [30]
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).
Corporate yield curves are often quoted in terms of a "credit spread" over the relevant swap curve. For instance the five-year yield curve point for Vodafone might be quoted as LIBOR +0.25%, where 0.25% (often written as 25 basis points or 25bps) is the credit spread.
Between 9 April and 4 May, the two largest junk exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF and the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, respectively received $1.6 billion and $4.71 billion in net inflows. However, Goldman cautioned that even the BB-rated bonds that make up half of these two ETF's ...