It seems as though hardly a week goes by without some fretting and posturing over when the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates. Some experts say the Fed has missed its window to boost borrowing costs, while others believe the Fed will wait until late in the first quarter of 2016.
Other market observers believe a rate hike before the end of 2015 is still on the table.
All of the conjecture and speculation regarding the Fed's next move is not preventing investors from pouring into fixed income exchange-traded funds this month. As of October 9, the top four asset-gathering ETFs this month are all bond funds and three of those four are corporate bond ETFs, both investment-grade and high-yield funds.
“In the first nine months of 2015, investors added $7.7 billion to investment-grade corporate bond ETFs. While we think demand for high-quality fixed-income securities is strong, in light of modest Treasury yields, while in ...
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