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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.
So far, 2022 has brought shifting tides of market sentiment and prolonged volatility as many advisors and investors begin trying to position their portfolios for inflation and raising rate environments. For those who are continuing to follow the traditional benchmarks that have proven fruitful for the last number of years, Columbia Threadneedle Investments discusses why [.
Broad benchmarks, such as the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Agg”) and the Russell 1000 Index, have helped guide investors through a prolonged bull market. However, as the Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate hikes this year, funds tracking the “Agg” now expose investors to more risks and limited returns, and finding the right [.
Today Columbia Threadneedle Investments announced in a press release the launch of their newest fixed income ETFs with the addition of the Columbia Short Duration Bond ETF (SBND). This ETF focuses on income generation from four different parts of the debt markets: U.S. investment-grade corporates, U.S. investment-grade securitized debt, U.S. high-yield, and emerging market sovereign [.
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