Yes! Also a lot of countries have bonds from corporations that fall below investment grade, like fallen angels, that get ignored and instead I'd prefer to include them at market weight. Same with ignoring emerging markets. A lot of them are investment grade but still ignored. And there is even controversy over some like India over their credit rating which I won't discuss for off topic reasons.A type of universal index, which exists in America (iShares has it with IUSB) has yet to be created internationally.China is a huge player in the bond market. They are second after America and even surpassed Japan. iShares has a BNDW equivalent (global bond etf) called AGGG for international investors and it contains:
- 40% America
- 10% China
- 10% Japa
etc.
- 5% France
Now Vanguard does forgo Chinese bonds and doesn't include them if you want to avoid that. In both BNDX (international only) and BNDW (global bond market). I'm not that big of a fan of international bonds because of the hedging and the lack of non investment grade bonds in the index.Do you mean:the lack of non investment grade bonds in the index
- there are only Investment Grade bonds in the index? (So that's c 20 countries including all the others in the G8 - Japan, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Italy etc) and you would prefer it if the index included non IG countries?
Statistics: Posted by Trance — Mon Dec 02, 2024 5:59 am — Replies 27 — Views 1512