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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
| Municipal Bonds |
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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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| S&P/BGCantor US Treasury Bond |
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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Investment Grade Corporate Bonds: Quality, Performance and Income in Any Market |
Seeking Alpha - June 5, 2011 - by Eric Parnell
This post is the latest in an ongoing series introduced in the article Best Post-QE2 Opportunities Lie Beyond Stocks providing a detailed analysis on investment strategies outside of the stock market leading up to the end of QE2.
Investment Grade Corporate Bonds have been a remarkably consistent asset class for the last several years. And these steady results are likely to continue in the months ahead, particularly with QE2 coming to an end on June 30. As a result, investors should be well served to either maintain current positions or establish new positions in Investment Grade Corporate Bonds.
Investment Grade Corporate Bond performance has been impressive since the early days of the financial crisis. Investment Grade Corporate Bonds, which represent higher quality bonds that are rated BBB/Baa or higher by the major credit rating agencies, experienced a sharp drop like nearly everything else at the onset of the crisis, plunging -17% in the first ten trading days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
But after setting a bottom in late September 2008 and stabilizing over the next few months, Investment Grade Corporate Bonds entered into a rally that has been rewarding from both a capital gains and income perspective. Moreover, these gains have also come with hardly any meaningful volatility along the way.
For example, the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD), which is by far the largest exchange traded fund available for this category, has generated an overall return of nearly +60% in the 2+ years since bottoming in late 2008. And the lack of volatility since the crisis speaks for itself in the chart below. Click to enlarge:
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