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Exploring Fixed Income’s Passive Potential
Passive investing has historically been more associated with equities than with fixed income, but recent data indicates a change could be in the winds. S&P DJI’s Tim Edwards and Anu Ganti take a closer look at what’s driving the shift and what a passive transformation could mean for fixed income markets.
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Time, Trust and Trading
As the bull market in U.S. equities continues, with the S&P 500® up 18% YTD,1 we have witnessed in parallel an extraordinary time in the fixed income markets. Historically low credit spreads have led to the outperformance of high yield bonds relative to corporate bonds and corporate bonds relative to Treasuries. The iBoxx USD High…
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Tracking the Emerging Market Yield Landscape with Indices
The iBoxx USD Emerging Markets Broad Overall Indices represent the most comprehensive fixed income hard currency snapshot of the market due to their broad methodology construction. Join S&P DJI’s Anu Ganti and Cboe’s Mandy Xu as they explore why emerging market bonds are coming back into focus for some yield seekers and how these new…
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Measuring Munis: Using Indices to Assess Yield Opportunities
How are muni indices helping market participants navigate the yield curve in the current climate? S&P DJI’s Jennifer Schnabl and Vanguard’s David Sharp take a closer look at the S&P Intermediate Term National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index and S&P California AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index.
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Turtle Returns: The Hare and the Tortoise
The tale of a footrace between a determined tortoise and a swift but ultimately complacent hare has been with us for a long time. The earliest known version is two and a half thousand years old; it begins with the hare mocking the tortoise’s slow feet, which leads to a challenge and a contest, and…
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Using the News to Select a More Stable Path to the S&P 500
Meet the S&P 500 RavenPack AI Index, a multi-asset index that applies a news analytics algorithm powered by RavenPack to select S&P 500 sectors with the strongest news sentiment for use in its sector rotation process. The index combines U.S. equities and fixed income, complemented by a daily risk control mechanism that seeks to maintain…
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Navigating Private Credit Liquidity Challenges with Indices
What’s driving insurance companies’ increased allocation to private credit? S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Lynn Bachstetter joins S&P DJI’s Frans Scheepers and State Street Global Advisors’ Bill Ahmuty to explore how indices like the iBoxx Liquid Leveraged Loan Index are helping insurers identify and navigate liquidity challenges in private credit markets.
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Bond Beginnings and Beyond
American political consultant James Carville once commented that he’d like to be resurrected as the bond market because, “you can intimidate everyone.” As of July 2023, the global bond market comprises about USD 135 trillion of securities, of which rated corporate debt represents USD 23 trillion.1 U.S. corporate debt makes up roughly half of the…
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Happy Days for How Long?
With less than a month left to go to close out the year, it’s a good time to reflect on the highs and lows that market participants have experienced. While the year began with a rocky start due to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the market continued to power forward, stumbling in Q3 as 10-year…
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Measuring Fixed Income Opportunities in Asia with Indices
How are indices helping investors track the continued development of Asian Bond markets? S&P DJI’s Randolf Tantzscher and SSGA’s Kheng Siang Ng discuss how indexing is helping market participants track the evolving fixed income opportunity set across currencies in Asia.
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