Invesco PowerShares enters fixed income ETF space in Europe

Launches US high yield 'Fallen Angels' ETF

Anna Fedorova
clock • 2 min read

Invesco PowerShares is making its first foray into fixed income ETFs for the European market with the launch of a US high yield 'Fallen Angels' product in partnership with Citi.

The new vehicle will be called PowerShares US High Yield Fallen Angels UCITS ETF, and will be a physically replicating Irish-domiciled fund tracking the Citi Time-Weighted US Fallen Angel Bond Select index. The index will seek to exploit a market anomaly whereby bonds that have been recently downgraded from investment grade to junk are oversold by investors, but often bounce back in a "V-shaped recovery". ETF roundup: All the major news from across the industry Bonds in the index have a minimum rating of C by S&P, and Ca by Moody's, and a maximum of BB+ and Ba1 respectively. A k...

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