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Business of Bonds: Senior Loan ETFs Take the Spotlight

The Federal Reserve continues to hold fast to its highly data-driven, wait-and-see approach on rate policy. Last week’s FOMC meeting further bolstered the market’s belief in a lone rate-cut scenario,...

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MSIM’s Active Senior Loan ETF Beats Competitors on Cost

Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s active senior loan ETF is a compelling offering in the current environment. Investors have increasingly looked to senior loan ETFs in recent history instead of...

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Eaton Vance Loans Expertise to the ETF Market

When the Exchange conference starts on Monday, advisors will have a new active floating rate bond ETF to learn about. It’s one that’s backed by a firm with a rich heritage in the investment style....

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Invesco’s Bank Loan ETF Offers High Yield, Outpaces Active Peers

Investing in a bank loan ETF can offer a compelling yield while helping maintain defensive portfolio positioning. In the current environment, investors who want to generate as much yield as possible...

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Fixed-Income Investors Should Take Another Look at High-Yield Bond ETFs

As big money managers quietly step back into the high-yield debt market following a steep sell-off this year, investors can also begin to take a second look at attractively priced speculative-grade...

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Happy 20th Anniversary to Bond ETFs

The first bond ETFs began trading 20 years ago last Friday, and the industry is poised for continued growth in the decades to come. On July 22, 2002, the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond...

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Chart of the Week: Advisors Find High-Yielding Bonds Appealing

With the Federal Reserve likely hiking interest rates even higher in the coming weeks, advisors face challenges navigating the bond market. During a mid-July webcast VettaFi hosted with State Street...

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BlackRock Sets Stage for Own Active Senior Loan ETF

Demand for actively managed senior loan ETFs has skyrocketed in the past year, helping State Street Global Advisors and First Trust fill their coffers. Indeed, the two firms have pulled nearly $9...

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Investors Keep Turning to Active Fixed Income ETFs

Key Takeaways Actively managed fixed income U.S. listed ETFs have gathered a 17% share of category net inflows thus far in 2021, despite active ETFs overall managing just 4% of industry assets. PIMCO...

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5 Best-Performing Fixed Income ETFs During April

The evolution of fixed income in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) space has undoubtedly opened doors for investors to provide easy access to this asset class. Now, investors have a plethora of options...

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First Trust Launches New Active ETF of ETFs

First Trust added to its lineup of fixed income exchange traded funds last week with the debut of the First Trust Low Duration Strategic Focus ETF (NASDAQ: LDSF), an actively managed ETF of ETFs. The...

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New Regulatory Rules Could Dampen Leveraged Loan ETFs

Once a hot asset class, high-yield leveraged loan exchange traded funds are cooling down as new regulatory rules put pressure on the leveraged lending industry. The PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio...

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Senior Loan ETFs Still Have Rising Rates Appeal

With the Federal Reserve expected to tighten its monetary policy soon, investors can utilize floating-rate, high-yield, senior loan exchange traded funds to hedge against a rising interest rate...

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First Trust to Launch Active Muni Bond ETF

First Trust, the eighth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds, plans to launch an actively managed municipal bond fund next week. The Illinois-base company said it expects to launch the First...

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Goldman Cautious on Leveraged Loan Flows

For a while now, it has seemed as though exchange traded funds holding senior bank loans have among the toasts of the town in the bond ETF universe. Not only do ETFs such as the PowerShares Senior Loan...

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Learn About Creative Income Strategies at the ETF Virtual Summit

With the Fed set on easing back the monetary throttle, investors are beginning to realize the negative effects of a rising rate environment. Nevertheless, there are a number of alternative fixed-income...

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Bank Loan ETFs Continue to Thrive

Despite calls, many unfounded, for their demise, bank loan funds continue to thrive. Through the end of October, year-to-date inflows to these products were over $54.3 billlion. Regarding exchange...

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10 Unique ETF Sources of Yield

No longer is an investor’s search for yield confined to stocks and U.S. government bonds. The exchange traded products industry has helped drive the changing landscape of income investing by offering a...

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High-Yield Bank Loan ETFs: Credit Risk vs. Rate Risk

Bank loan ETFs have weathered the recent turbulence in interest rates relatively well as investors try to guess the Federal Reserve’s next move on quantitative easing. While many have steered toward...

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Bank Loan ETFs for Yield and Rising Rate Hedge

Many have taken up speculative grade debt to augment their portfolio’s yield potential. Alternatively, investors can take a look at senior loan exchange traded funds that provide above-average yields...

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