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Vanguard's New Emerging Markets Bond Fund: A Day Late And A Dollar Short?
Michael Fabian • Fri, May 17 • 1 Comment
Why Sovereigns Default On Local Currency Debt
Cullen Roche • Tue, May 14
Look At Emerging Markets To Meet Retirement Goals
Aaron Katsman • Mon, May 13 • 4 Comments
2 Emerging Market Bond ETFs Yielding 4%
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 10
It's Just Not As Easy As Saying, 'Risk On' Or 'Risk Off'
Emerging Money • Fri, May 3 • 1 Comment
Major Asset Class April 2013 Performance Review
James Picerno • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
ETF Strategy For Rising Rates: Sector Allocation
Matt Tucker • Tue, Apr 30 • 2 Comments
The Great Duration Rotation Continues - But For How Long?
Matt Tucker • Wed, Apr 17 • 1 Comment
Want Positive Real Returns? Brazil Tops PIMCO Index
Learn Bonds • Mon, Apr 15
The Year Of The Central Banks: The Godzilla Attack And The Refugee Camps
DNA Decoder • Mon, Apr 8 • 15 Comments
Emerging Markets: Disappointing Dream
William Gamble • Mon, Apr 8 • 14 Comments
Bond Market Review Q1 2013
Ploutos • Mon, Apr 8 • 7 Comments
Using Long Term Bonds To Improve Returns Of Bridgewater's All Weather Risk Parity Portfolio
MyPlanIQ • Sun, Apr 7
Ask Russ: All About Emerging Markets
Russ Koesterich • Thu, Apr 4
Yes, There Is Still Hope In Bond Investments
MyPlanIQ • Wed, Apr 3 • 6 Comments
Major Asset Class March Performance Review
James Picerno • Wed, Apr 3 • 2 Comments
Emerging-Markets Government Debt: Time To Add To Your Portfolio Or Wait?
Carole Cable • Mon, Apr 1 • 1 Comment
2 Factors Keeping A Lid On Interest Rates
Russ Koesterich • Wed, Mar 27 • 1 Comment
Don't Own Any High Yield Bonds? Are You Sure?
Carole Cable • Tue, Mar 26 • 2 Comments
Framework For Picking The Right ETFs For Your Portfolio: The Case Of Emerging Market Bond ETFs
Marius Bausys • Thu, Mar 21 • 10 Comments

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Finding Income Today: A Risky Business
Russ Koesterich • Fri, Apr 27, 2012 • 4 Comments
The Emerging Market Bond Trade Is Getting Very Crowded
Lawrence Weinman • Thu, Mar 8, 2012 • 16 Comments
ETF Spotlight: Emerging Market Bonds
Tom Lydon • Mon, Nov 28, 2011
A Green Light on Emerging Market Bonds
Brian Rezny • Tue, May 24, 2011 • 2 Comments
Choosing Emerging Market Stocks Over Emerging Market Bonds
Lawrence Weinman • Fri, Feb 4, 2011 • 4 Comments
China Manufacturing PMI Falls - An Opportunity Begging?
Prieur du Plessis • Tue, Feb 1, 2011 • 2 Comments
USD Emerging Market Bond ETF: An ETF to Love
Jim Van Meerten • Tue, Aug 24, 2010
Just One ETF: Emerging-Market Debt for Lower-Volatility Diversification
Casey Smith • Fri, Aug 20, 2010 • 5 Comments
Commission-Free ETFs Enable Portfolio Building Using Asset Allocation Strategies
MyPlanIQ • Sun, May 16, 2010 • 12 Comments
EMBI Peru Slides Further
IncaInvest • Fri, Dec 5, 2008
EMB Brings Choice for Emerging Market Debt ETFs
IndexUniverse • Tue, Dec 25, 2007

Vanguard's New Emerging Markets Bond Fund: A Day Late And A Dollar Short?
Michael Fabian • Fri, May 17 • 1 Comment
Why Sovereigns Default On Local Currency Debt
Cullen Roche • Tue, May 14
Look At Emerging Markets To Meet Retirement Goals
Aaron Katsman • Mon, May 13 • 4 Comments
2 Emerging Market Bond ETFs Yielding 4%
Tom Lydon • Fri, May 10
It's Just Not As Easy As Saying, 'Risk On' Or 'Risk Off'
Emerging Money • Fri, May 3 • 1 Comment
Major Asset Class April 2013 Performance Review
James Picerno • Fri, May 3 • 2 Comments
ETF Strategy For Rising Rates: Sector Allocation
Matt Tucker • Tue, Apr 30 • 2 Comments
The Great Duration Rotation Continues - But For How Long?
Matt Tucker • Wed, Apr 17 • 1 Comment
Want Positive Real Returns? Brazil Tops PIMCO Index
Learn Bonds • Mon, Apr 15
The Year Of The Central Banks: The Godzilla Attack And The Refugee Camps
DNA Decoder • Mon, Apr 8 • 15 Comments
Emerging Markets: Disappointing Dream
William Gamble • Mon, Apr 8 • 14 Comments
Bond Market Review Q1 2013
Ploutos • Mon, Apr 8 • 7 Comments
Using Long Term Bonds To Improve Returns Of Bridgewater's All Weather Risk Parity Portfolio
MyPlanIQ • Sun, Apr 7
Ask Russ: All About Emerging Markets
Russ Koesterich • Thu, Apr 4
Yes, There Is Still Hope In Bond Investments
MyPlanIQ • Wed, Apr 3 • 6 Comments
Major Asset Class March Performance Review
James Picerno • Wed, Apr 3 • 2 Comments
Emerging-Markets Government Debt: Time To Add To Your Portfolio Or Wait?
Carole Cable • Mon, Apr 1 • 1 Comment
2 Factors Keeping A Lid On Interest Rates
Russ Koesterich • Wed, Mar 27 • 1 Comment
Don't Own Any High Yield Bonds? Are You Sure?
Carole Cable • Tue, Mar 26 • 2 Comments
Framework For Picking The Right ETFs For Your Portfolio: The Case Of Emerging Market Bond ETFs
Marius Bausys • Thu, Mar 21 • 10 Comments

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Jim Lowell: How to protect your portfolio in December

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 3, 2012)
Alternatives to the drooping dollar

at MarketWatch.com (Sep 27, 2012)
Hate the Low Volatility? Bet Against It!

at CNBC.com (Aug 15, 2012)
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at MarketWatch.com (Jul 2, 2012)
Jim Lowell: Braving June’s horror show

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 4, 2012)
Your First Move For Wednesday May 30th

at CNBC.com (May 29, 2012)
Where the stock and bond bargains are hiding

at MarketWatch.com (May 22, 2012)
Sovereign Debt Buyers Search Far and Wide

at CNBC.com (Mar 16, 2012)
ETF Adviser: 5 ways investors can beat the retirement bandits

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 14, 2012)
Your First Move For Friday November 25th

at CNBC.com (Nov 23, 2011)
Robert Powell's Your Portfolio: Look to Asia-Pacific for investments

at MarketWatch.com (Nov 16, 2011)
A Taste of Emerging Market Bond and Currency Funds

at CNBC.com (Oct 3, 2011)
Weekend Investor: 5 investments to gird against a weak market

at MarketWatch.com (Jul 22, 2011)
Jim Lowell: Commodities highlight May trends

at MarketWatch.com (May 2, 2011)
Ireland "more risky" than Egypt?

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 10, 2011)
More ways to benefit from higher oil prices

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 8, 2011)
Jim Lowell: Buy emerging markets where you can

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 1, 2011)
Jim Lowell: Short gold after the election

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 31, 2010)
Weekend Investor: Emerging-markets bonds raise bubble concerns

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 15, 2010)
Jim Lowell: Earnings tricks and political treats

at MarketWatch.com (Oct 4, 2010)

EMB vs. ETF Alternatives

EMB Description

The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the JPMorgan EMBI Global Core Index.
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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to International and Emerging Market Government Bond ETFs
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Tuesday, May 14, 11:33 AM Vanguard sets an early June start for the launch of its Emerging Markets Government Bond Fund (VWOB), The fund will track the Barclays Dollar EM Government RIC Capped Index with the expense ratio to be 0.3-0.5%. The iShares Emerging Markets Dollar Bond ETF (EMB) has an expense ratio of 0.59%. PowerShares' PCY has a ratio of 0.5%. Comment!
Thursday, May 9, 11:14 AM PowerShares adds another to the emerging market debt ETF space, prepping the launch of the Fundamental Emerging Markets Local Debt Portfolio (PFEM), with annual cost of 0.50%. The fund will join a space anchored by PowerShares' own PCY, WisdomTree's ELD, and iShares' EMB. Others: LEMB, EMLC. Comment! [Global & FX]
Friday, May 3, 8:20 AM "Long Japan, Short Rwanda," is the title of a report from BAML suggesting the emerging market debt sector (EMB) is getting a bit frothy. Rwanda last week sold $400M of 10-year notes priced to yield 6.87%. The amount represents 5.5% of the country's GDP and the deal was 10x oversubscribed. Better bets, says the report, are Japanese equities (EWJ, DXJ) and U.S. housing (XHB). Comment! [Global & FX]
Friday, May 3, 7:04 AM Emerging Global Advisors files (I, II) to launch 12 new funds, including 6 bond funds - its first totally in-house fixed income strategies. Included in the equity offerings is the EM Dividend High Income ETF (possible competitors include: IDV, DEM), the EM Asia Consumer ETF, and the EM Equal Weight Sector ETF. Among the fixed income offerings are Investment Grade - short, intermediate, and long term ETFs (possible competitors include: EMB, LEMB, PCY). No ticker symbols or expense ratios are yet known, and it's possible not all 12 will make it to actual launch status. Comment!
Friday, April 12, 12:46 PM More from Gundlach: Bond indexing has been a wonderful strategy for many years, but now the well-followed indexes (BND, AGG) have too short of a duration and are overloaded with Treasurys. The value is in non-traditional sectors like emerging markets (EMB), non-agency MBS, bank loans (BKLN), and global high yield (GHYG). 4 Comments [U.S. Economy, Financials]
Friday, March 22, 12:09 PM Western markets are mostly marking time alongside the events in Cyprus, but emerging market debt continues a downtrend begun some time ago with the EMB hitting an 8-month low today. It's likewise with equities - off more than 5% YTD, EEM, VWO, and DEM are getting smoked by the SPY. 2 Comments [Global & FX]
Monday, March 18, 4:57 AM Ron Rowland offers additional highlights on the recently expanded lineup of commission-free ETFs over at Fidelity including the following caveat: Funds not held for 30 days by retail investors or 60 days by RIAs using Fidelity as a custodian will be subject to a $7.95 per-trade commission. Some RIAs have complained that the longer holding period directed at them is unfair. Rowland spells out the full list of affected ETFs here. Comment!
Wednesday, February 27, 5:08 AM Argentina is due to appear in a New York Appeals Court today, when it will try to persuade the judge to reverse a ruling that it pay $1.3B to investors that refused to accept the country's debt restructuring after it defaulted 2001. The case could "create unrest in the credit markets and result in cascades of litigation," says Bank of New York Mellon (BK). 3 Comments [Financials, Global & FX, Top Stories]
Tuesday, February 19, 9:46 AM "The BRICs are back," says David Hauner, BAML's chief of fixed-income strategy for EMEA. While growth slowed notably in Brazil, India, and China in 2012, it's expected to bounce back this year. He recommends unloading developed-world fixed income for that of emerging markets (EMB). Comment! [Global & FX]
Friday, February 15, 10:54 AM The Australian dollar (FXA) is about to be next in a falling line of dominos, writes the WSJ's Bernard and Cignarella. First an emerging-market ETF (EMB) has turned down, now high yield ETFs have moved lower, and - if patterns hold - the aussie is next they say, pointing to a near-1 correlation between the two assets. Comment! [Global & FX]
Wednesday, February 6, 5:04 PM Vanguard plans the launch of an international aggregate bond ETF - the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund - by the end of Q2. More enticing, the fund will have a 0.20% expense ratio - less than the originally slated 0.30% - and a planned 0.25% purchase fee has been eliminated. Comment!
Monday, February 4, 11:56 AM Last week's losses in high-yield were accompanied by sizable outflows from high-yield ETFs, with HYG losing $461M in assets and JNK $348M. Investors also pulled money from another hot sector, emerging markets bonds (EMB). All three are now posting losses YTD. 5 Comments [Financials]
Friday, February 1, 3:34 PM Like Dan Fuss, UBS apparently believes the fixed-income rally has run its course. The company reportedly plans to inform many of its brokerage clients - most of whom believe they're sitting in conservatively structured bond portfolios - that they're being reclassified as "aggressive investors." This should make for some interesting conversations between wealth managers and clients. Comment! [Financials, U.S. Economy, Global & FX]
Thursday, January 31, 2:50 PM WisdomTree rolls out its Global Corporate Bond ETF (GLCB), an actively-managed ETF blending developed and emerging market corporate debt. There are global corporate bond funds, there are emerging corporate bond funds, but there are none combining the two and adding in active management. Competitors: GHYG, CEMB. Comment! [Global & FX]
Thursday, January 31, 9:10 AM Credit in the U.S. ($56T and counting) is a supernova star, says Bill Gross - its expansion produces less and less heat and ultimately causes the star to consume itself. In the 1980's, it took $4 of new credit to create another $1 of GDP; over the last decade it's taken $10, and since 2006, $20. The comparison ends there, says Gross, as inflation rather than implosion lies ahead. Shorten duration, buy TIPs, look offshore for positive real rates of return. 5 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Wednesday, January 30, 3:08 PM Fixed-income is the most overbought in his 55-year career, says Dan Fuss, preparing to open a fund to U.K. investors (what a salesman). He's busy slashing duration along with exposure to emerging markets and junk bonds ("from a valuation point, ridiculous"). "For heaven's sakes, don't go out and borrow money to buy bonds right now." Comment!

Ian Farbrother
Interesting to see the rebound in dollar-denominated EM bonds today - $PCY, $EMB. Local-currency bonds - esp. $EMLC - not doing so well ...
Apr 4, 3:46 PM
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iadops40
play Latin American bonds with these ETFs: BONO ELD PCY EMB http://bit.ly/PkUU94#
8/28/12
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DaLatin: Rather go 4 safety with L.A. CDs paying 3 to 4 times the interest
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eabyrd
EMB looks to be forming a triple top at the $114.50 level, yielding 4.6%. Ready to fall?
6/21/12
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briandiplacido: Doing some DD on this. It had quite a run--did you trade it?
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eabyrd: No I haven't put on any trades yet... I did short $LQD last week at 120.85.
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Retirefund
The pain in Spain will flush money down the drain! Euros and dollars that is! Gold/Silver anyone? COBO ERO FSU GBB CNY EMB GG BRD GPL PAAS
6/8/12
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realornot: no PAIN no GAIN ... lol Buy for now. Go ahead flush money down in my pocket!
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Michael A. Gayed
This is how scary credit spreads looked last week in JNK EMB IEF: http://bit.ly/KwS1Bf
5/22/12
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Default to Reality: Thanks for the charts Michael. With the German auction today the flight to safe haven looks like it is excellerating.......
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Michael A. Gayed: Agreed.
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moneyhawk1
all in the money here i hope LAG IRR CLY LQD EMB CMF MBG this one is for mom EIRL . good day every one
4/18/12
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Dr. Kris
Income Funds #1: Global & Emerging (PGP, ESD, EDD, EMB), Corporate (PCN, VCSH, CYE), Preferred (HPF, FFC), Hi-Income (PHK)
8/3/10
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Jim Van Meerten
EMB - USD Emerging Mkts Bond ETF - 19 new highs in 20 session - 80% Barchart short term technical buy - Trend Spotter (tm) Buy
8/2/10
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ETFdesk
WaysToPlay: Emerging market bond sales hit record high http://bit.ly/b1I0eP $EMB #ETF #MKT
3/15/10
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ETFdesk
Risk redefined, The new problem with Asian sovereign debt--scarcity http://bit.ly/aXdt6k $EMB $ESD $TEI #MKT #ETF
3/3/10
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iadops40
play Latin American bonds with these ETFs: BONO ELD PCY EMB http://bit.ly/PkUU94#
8/28/12
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DaLatin: Rather go 4 safety with L.A. CDs paying 3 to 4 times the interest
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eabyrd
EMB looks to be forming a triple top at the $114.50 level, yielding 4.6%. Ready to fall?
6/21/12
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briandiplacido: Doing some DD on this. It had quite a run--did you trade it?
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eabyrd: No I haven't put on any trades yet... I did short $LQD last week at 120.85.
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Retirefund
The pain in Spain will flush money down the drain! Euros and dollars that is! Gold/Silver anyone? COBO ERO FSU GBB CNY EMB GG BRD GPL PAAS
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realornot: no PAIN no GAIN ... lol Buy for now. Go ahead flush money down in my pocket!
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Michael A. Gayed
This is how scary credit spreads looked last week in JNK EMB IEF: http://bit.ly/KwS1Bf
5/22/12
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Default to Reality: Thanks for the charts Michael. With the German auction today the flight to safe haven looks like it is excellerating.......
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Michael A. Gayed: Agreed.
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EMB iShares JP Morgan USD Emerging Market Bond ETF

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