Fixed-income exchange traded funds saw record inflows last year and the way 2015 started for bond ETFs, it looked like it was going to be another stellar year. By mid-February, five of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs to that point in 2015 were bond funds.
However, as concerns that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates intensified, investors turned to funds that benefit from a rising dollar, including currency hedged ETFs. Now, no bond ETFs are currently found among the top 10 for 2015 inflows; to be fair, none of the 10 worst ETFs in terms of 2015 outflows are fixed income funds, either.
While investors have departed rate-sensitive longer-dated bond funds, such as the iShares 20+ ...
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