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This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. As of 2020, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide was over 7,600, [1] representing about 7.74 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. [2] The largest ETF, as of April 2021, was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE Arca: SPY), with about $353.4 billion in assets.
The firm's origin dates back to 1947, when investor Jack Dreyfus founded a brokerage house in New York City named Dreyfus & Co. [2] [3]. In 1951, attracted by the concept of mutual funds, Dreyfus & Co. purchased a small management company named John G. Nesbett & Co., Inc. with a small common stock fund called The Nesbett Fund Incorporated.
The 1994 bond market crisis, or Great Bond Massacre, was a sudden drop in bond market prices across the developed world. [1][2] It began in Japan and the United States (US), and spread through the rest of the world. [3] After the recession of the early 1990s, historically low interest rates in many industrialized nations preceded an ...
A bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund that owns a portfolio of bonds. Typically an ETF tracks a specific index of securities such as bonds, making it a passively managed investment, rather than ...
Buying bond mutual funds and ETFs: You don’t need to make decisions about specific bonds to purchase when you buy a bond mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF). Instead, the fund or ETF ...
Cheaper than buying individual bonds: The bond market is usually less liquid than the stock market, with wider bid-ask spreads costing investors more money. With a bond ETF, you can use the fund ...
DoubleLine Capital LP. DoubleLine Capital ("DoubleLine") is an American investment management firm headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It is known for its focus on investing in the bond market but also invests in other asset classes such as equities and commodities. The firm is majority owned by its employees.
The credit rating is a financial indicator to potential investors of debt securities such as bonds. These are assigned by credit rating agencies such as Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch, which publish code designations (such as AAA, B, CC) to express their assessment of the risk quality of a bond. Moody's assigns bond credit ratings of Aaa ...