ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged

IGHG tracks an index with long exposure to USD-denominated investment-grade debt and short exposure to US Treasurys. The fund aims to minimize interest-rate risk.

ProShares Investment Grade—Interest Rate Hedged ETF offers a built-in hedge against rising interest rates while providing the opportunity for higher yields. IGHG maintains a diversified portfolio of investment-grade corporate bonds and takes short positions in Treasury futures to offset interest rate risk. IGHG offers diversification benefits, potential for higher yields, but does not mitigate credit risk and may have hedging imperfections.

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The ProShares Investment Grade—Interest Rate Hedged ETF is a fixed-income ETF that seeks to track the performance of the FTSE Corporate Investment Grade (Treasury Rate-Hedged) Index. IGHG has performed well in a rising rate environment, with only a small decline in 2022 and a significant increase in 2023. The fund hedges its duration component through short Treasury futures positions, but this strategy only produces positive results in a rising rates environment.

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Rising Treasury yields often prompt advisors and investors to embrace short-term bonds and related exchange traded funds, but there are other ideas to consider, including rate-hedged bond ETFs. The ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: IGHG) and ProShares High Yield Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: HYHG) are two rate hedged ETF strategies that try to eliminate rising rate risks.

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With interest rates suddenly jumping to a one-year high off historic lows, bond exchange traded fund investors may be interested in interest-rate hedged fixed-income strategies that could help mitigate further rate risks ahead. Specifically, the ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: IGHG) and ProShares High Yield Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: HYHG) are two rate hedged ETF strategies that try [.

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With interest rates jumping to a one-year high off of historic lows, bond exchange traded fund investors may be interested in rate-hedged fixed income strategies to mitigate rate risks ahead. Specifically, the ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: IGHG) and ProShares High Yield Interest Rate Hedged ETF (Cboe: HYHG) are two rate-hedged ETF strategies that try [.

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It comes as no surprise that bonds were the toast of the town versus equities during the height of the pandemic sell-off as investors took flight to safety. A deluge of capital into investment-grade bonds, in particular, have already spurred issuance to meet demand, resulting in double that of last year’s issuance.

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Companies have been making good use of bonds with global interest rates at lows, which is offering them the opportunity to refinance existing debt. This is just one of the ways bonds have been used to address the COVID-19 crisis.

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The Federal Reserve is no doubt doing its part to help support the economy by dumping trillions into businesses, which is helping to buoy the bond market. The capital markets are betting that even more action could be on the way, which should only help the bond markets even further.

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When it comes to the capital markets, COVID-19 has had an appetite for destruction, but in turn, it’s fueled an appetite for bonds when it comes to pension funds. Pension funds were already well on target for fixed income exposure ahead of the pandemic, but now they can’t get enough of bonds.

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Investors who are looking to shore up their portfolios with corporate bond exposure, especially with the Federal Reserve stepping in to purchase more debt amid the coronavirus outbreak, now could be a better time than ever.

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The Federal Reserve’s pledge to purchase more corporate bonds to help shore up the economy is putting exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that cater to corporate debt on fixed income investors’ want lists.

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As the number of coronavirus cases grows globally, there’s a correlative equivalent in the corporate bond markets—the growing number of downgrades.

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To help shore up the economy, the Federal Reserve is purchasing corporate bonds, but they’re not the only ones. Stock investors are also snatching up corporate bonds, especially the investment-trade type as the coronavirus outbreak is making them wary of riskier, higher-yielding debt assets.

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are regarded for helping to inject liquidity into the bond markets and as such, the Federal Reserve is looking to snatch up these funds as opposed to actual debt issues. The Fed is planning to buy up to $100 billion in corporate debt, which should help fuel corporate bond ETFs.

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On the surface, it appears as though interest rate hedged ETFs need rates to rise to be successful.

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The ProShares Investment Grade—Intr Rt Hdgd (CBOE: IGHG) is designed to thrive when interest rates rise, but that doesn’t mean the ETF isn’t useful when rates are declining. Quite the contrary, IGHG is performing admirably this year and features a tempting to yield to help investors bolster income in today’s low yield environment.

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