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Short-term investment-grade bond strategies, with durations in the two-to-three-year range, are well positioned to capture a meaningful yield advantage without the rate sensitivity that has challenged longer duration strategies in recent months. The yield to worst on a diversified short-term bond portfolio currently sits between 4.5% and 5.0%, more than 100 basis points above what bank savings accounts and government money market funds are currently yielding. Although the path for rates is highly uncertain, the range of outcomes in which short-term bonds outperform cash is considerably wider than the range in which they don't.
Bonds and related ETFs could be ready for their respective moments. That's because fears that equity market turbulence could stick around awhile are prompting calls that the Fed should cut interest rates sooner than expected.
By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy Key Takeaways Expectations for Fed rate cuts have increased due to dovish comments from Fed Chair Powell and a cooling labor market, shifting the debate to the size of the cuts.
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