The central bank’s pledge to buy investment-grade credit and certain funds helped spark a rally in higher-rated debt.

Asset managers may need to reassess the assumption that’s become widely held in recent years: that inflation is dead.

“Recent further Fed action from COVID-19 seems to put another layer on a near-40-year bond bull market,” an expert says.

The asset manager will serve “as a third-party vendor to operationalize these purchases and transact with the primary dealers,” the New York Fed said.

The world’s 500 richest people have lost almost $1.3 trillion since the start of the year.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.

The platform aims to "assist … in meeting demands for redemptions” as alarm over the coronavirus continues to cause strains in short-term funding markets.

Lenders have been ringing up investment firms and hedge funds to garner interest in financing to companies in industries upended by the coronavirus.