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The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, or the Agg, is a broad base, market capitalization-weighted bond market index representing intermediate term investment grade bonds traded in the United States. Investors frequently use the index as a stand-in for measuring the performance of the US bond market .
The difference between the full capitalization, float-adjusted, and equal weight versions is in how the index components are weighted. The full cap index uses the total shares outstanding for each company. The float-adjusted index uses shares adjusted for free float. The equal-weighted index assigns each security in the index the same weight.
2. Volatility. The PUT Index had an annualized standard deviation of returns of 9.91%, which was 36% less than the 15.39% standard deviation for the S&P 500. (Other annualized standard deviations were 17.39% for MSCI EAFE Index, 4.05% for the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, and 0.53% for 3-Month Treasury Bills.) 3. Relative Performance.
(Bank of America) Merrill Lynch High-Yield Master II; Barclays High-Yield Index; Bear Stearns High-Yield Index; Citi US High-Yield Market Index (Credit Suisse) First Boston High-Yield II Index
Schwab US Aggregate Bond (NYSE Arca SCHZ) Schwab US TIPS (NYSE Arca SCHP) Schwab Short-Term US Treasury (NYSE Arca SCHO) Schwab Intermediate-Term US Treasury (NYSE Arca SCHR) SPDR BarCap ST High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE Arca JNK) SPDR Barclays 1-3 Month T-Bill (NYSE Arca BIL) SPDR Barclays Capital Convertible Secs (NASDAQ|CWB)
A number of bond indices exist for the purposes of managing portfolios and measuring performance, similar to the S&P 500 or Russell Indexes for companies' shares. The most common American benchmarks are the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate (ex Lehman Aggregate), Citigroup BIG and Merrill Lynch Domestic Master. Most indices are parts of families ...
Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield Total Return Index, [9] S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index, [10] and; FTSE US High-Yield Market Index. [11] Some investors, preferring to dedicate themselves to higher-rated and less-risky investments, use an index that only includes BB-rated and B-rated securities.
For example, the S&P 500 index is both cap-weighted and float-adjusted. [3] Historically, in the United States, capitalization-weighted indices tended to use full weighting, i.e., all outstanding shares were included, while float-weighted indexing has been the norm in other countries, perhaps because of large cross-holdings or government ownership.