The fund management arm of Legal & General is urging investors to 'play safe' by buying
corporate bonds as an alternative to wasting their ISA allowance altogether.
Eaton Vance Income Fund of Boston (EVIBX) and Vanguard High-Yield
Corporate Bond Fund (VWEHX) have received the highest ratings from Morningstar.
Claymore BulletShares
Corporate Bond ETFs offer investors benefits relative to investing in individual
corporate bonds and most other fixed income investment products including immediate diversification, exchange-traded liquidity, professional management, and access to
corporate bonds that may otherwise be unavailable.
Christian Katz, division CEO of Swiss Exchange said, "With the new electronic trading platform for
corporate bonds, we are creating a regulated market that will benefit not only market professionals but also provide greater efficiency for their clients, in other words pension funds and asset managers .
2% of the total issuance of
corporate bonds together.
Many PEP investors, nervous that the stock market is looking dangerously high, are putting their money into
corporate bond PEPs in the hope of getting a higher tax-free income for much less risk than with a unit trust PEP invested in shares.
Name: PIMCO Low Duration Euro
Corporate Bond Source UCITS ETF, Asset class: active bond index ETF, ISIN: IE00BP9F2J32, Total expense ratio: 0.
3 billion of
corporate bonds to mature in five years and NT$10.
However, available data demonstrate that most municipal sectors have superior recovery prospects to
corporate bonds, which have an average recovery rate of about 40%.
A total of 24 new issues have already been listed in the Entry Standard for
corporate bonds this year.
CPC recently issued secured
corporate bonds totaling NT$17 billion to mature in five, seven and 10 years, making it the first issue of such bonds by the state-run oil refiner this year.
Rodgers adds that mom-and-pop investors should stay away from lower-rated
corporate bonds and purchase securities issued by solid blue-chip companies such as AT&T (NYSE: T) and Ford Motor Co.
