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...
To continue reading this article...
Join Investment Week for free
- Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the investment industry, including the Sustainable Hub covering fund news from the ESG space
- Get ahead of regulatory and technological changes affecting fund management
- Important and breaking news stories selected by the editors delivered straight to your inbox each day
- Weekly members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from leading industry experts
- Be the first to hear about our extensive events schedule and awards programmes