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Vanguard’s total bond index sank 13% in 2022, and while it recovered 5% in 2023 on the prospect of falling rates this year, that rise paled in comparison to the stock market’s 24% gain.
In December 1986, Vanguard launched its second mutual fund, a bond index fund called the Total Bond Fund, which was the first bond index fund ever offered to individual investors. [24] One earlier criticism of the first Index fund was that it was only an index of the S&P 500.
The index has been maintained by Bloomberg L.P. since August 24, 2016. Prior to then it was known as the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index and was maintained by Barclays. Prior to November 3, 2008 it was known as the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index and maintained by the now defunct Lehman Brothers.
Country Issuer Bond Type Currency Australia Office of Financial Management Treasury Indexed Bonds (TIBs) AUD ($) Canada Bank of Canada Marketable Bonds
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The Frankfurt Bond Market, 1988. A bond index or bond market index is a method of measuring the investment performance and characteristics of the bond market.There are numerous indices of differing construction that are designed to measure the aggregate bond market and its various sectors (government, municipal, corporate, etc.)
Bogle founded The Vanguard Group in 1974; as of 2009 it was the largest mutual fund company in the United States. [citation needed] Bogle started the First Index Investment Trust on December 31, 1975. At the time, it was heavily derided by competitors as being "un-American" and the fund itself was seen as "Bogle's folly". [13]