ETFs

While the central bank’s support may help keep credit flowing amid the coronavirus, “it doesn’t necessarily improve the outlook for bankruptcies.”

“I do believe that clients sometimes get too caught up in expense ratios,” an expert says.

The fund will track industries such as cloud technologies, remote communications and cyber security, according to an SEC filing.

“This market environment is a very good one for investors to do a self-awareness check,” an expert says.

If the price declines enough, it can breach a barrier where the investor starts suffering one-for-one losses all the way to zero.

“Ideally, you would like clients to try not to make really short-term decisions, however this is an unprecedented situation,” an expert says.

Proponents make them a standing core equity holding, but not all advisors are sold. One calls them "marketing schemes."

The regulator is seeking feedback on whether the current requirements that restrict the use of potentially misleading fund names are effective.

Proponents have long touted the new structure as a way for the industry to compete with mutual funds.

The funds are also some of the lowest-duration products in the market.

Sales people are having a hard time marketing new products in isolation, one executive says.

Nearly all of your efforts should revolve around your website, showing who you are and why your firm is different, says marketing expert Dan Sondhelm.

The major issuers of leveraged products, which trade under the ProShares and Direxion trademarks, have each posted inflows of over $2.8 billion this month.

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

The manager may collect over $4 million per year for managing a separate portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities issued by government agencies.

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 funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Five of the top seven performers this year carry AA ratings.

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