Milestones can be meaningful in the exchange traded funds industry, and on that note, the VanEck Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (NASDAQ: ANGL) is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Indeed, ...
"Fallen angels" are corporate bonds that received investment-grade credit ratings when they were issued but have since been downgraded to junk. Historically, they have tended to exhibit greater ...
Fallen angels underperformed the broad high yield market by 0.56% in Q4 and by 2.44% in 2024 as lower duration and lower quality outperformed. Rising stars outpaced fallen angels in 2024, but at a ...
Fallen angels outperformed broad high yield by 0.53% YTD, driven by security selection and duration. This marks 15 years of historical outperformance out of the last 22 calendar years*. There were 10 ...
2020 is already a record year for fallen angel bond volume. From the slew of downgrades—including recent ones of big names like Kraft, Ford and Occidental Petroleum—to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s ...