- Vanguard Group, Guggenheim Investments, and First Trust are among U.S. ETF providers lining up bank credit lines or expanding existing ones in order to meet a rash of redemptions in some future market panic, writes Ashley Lau and Michael Flaherty.
- At issue are ETFs in less liquid corners of the fixed-income world - bank loans (also known as senior or leveraged loans) and high-yield come to mind.
- State Street (NYSE:STT) and Invesco's (NYSE:IVZ) PowerShares have credit lines for their respective senior loan ETFs (SRLN, BKLN, VVR), with SRLN having exclusive access to $100M of the $300M total credit facility State Street has in place.
- BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) hasn't opened any lines for its bond funds as it doesn't trade in these less liquid areas, but it has opened a line for some its emerging market stock ETFs.
- Senior loan ETFs: BKLN, OXLC, PPR, EFR, VVR, PHD, SRLN, NSL, BGB, BGX, FCT, SNLN, EVF, ECC, AFT, BSL, TSLF, FTSL, TLI, BHL