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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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First global investment grade bond ETF |
MarketWatch - March 12, 2010 - by Kur Brouwer's
It’s generally good to be the first and I think the folks at State Street are on to something with this new ETF. My friend, Tom Lydon, at his excellent web site, ETF Trends, reports on a new ETF that will invest in high quality corporate bonds from around the globe [emphasis added]:
State Street has filed for a new exchange traded fund (ETF) that’s also a first of its kind: a fund that tracks the international investment-grade corporate bond market.
The new fund: Barclays Capital International Corporate Bond (NYSEArca: IBND). The ETF is meant to track the performance of the Barclays Capital Global Aggregate ex-USD >$1B Corporate Bond Index…
To be included in the index, securities have to have an investment-grade rating from at least two agencies, a minimum $1 billion market cap and at least a year left until maturity. The ETF may purchase a subset of the securities in the index in an effort to hold a portfolio of securities with generally the same risk and return properties featured.
The index is designed to be a broad based measure of the global investment-grade, fixed rate, fixed-income corporate markets outside the United States…
With all the thorny issues with sovereign debt — Greece, Spain, Japan etc — high quality corporates are looking more and more attractive. No reason to just hold U.S. corporates so this is a good idea.
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