The index comprises almost 1,500 bonds [[Source: Barclays Bank plc, September 17, 2015]], over 80% of which have been issued by US-domiciled companies. The ETF has listed on the Deutsche B\u00f6rse and will shortly list on the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n
The average credit rating of bonds in the index is investment grade (i.e. at least Baa3 from Moody\u2019s, BBB from Fitch Ratings, or BBB- from Standard & Poor\u2019s), while the current index yield is 3.69% [[Source: Barclays Capital Indices, October 4, 2015]].<\/p>\n
\u201cWith yields on many short maturity major government bonds now in negative territory, which means investors are effectively paying to own these bonds, there is a demand for fixed income exposure that generates a reasonable yield. Our new US dollar corporate bond ETF helps meet that demand,<\/em>\u201d comments Houda ENnebati head of ETF France, at Deutsche AWM <\/p>\n The ETF is physically replicating and has an All-in Fee of 0.2% per annum.<\/p>\n By the end of August this year, fixed income ETFs globally had generated almost USD 52.8 billion in inflows year-to-date [[Source: ETFGI, September 8, 2015]].<\/p>\n Deutsche AWM has a large suite of fixed income ETFs, including the db x-trackers Barclays Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF, which tracks the global market for government, governmental, supranational, corporate, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities across the full spectrum of maturities and the investment-grade credit rating range. The ETF launched in March 2014 and has EUR 500 million in assets under management [[Source: Deutsche AWM, September 29, 2015]].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) has launched an ETF that provides exposure to the US dollar-denominated liquid corporate bond market.db x-trackers Barclays USD Corporate Bond UCITS ETF (DR) tracks the Barclays USD Liquid Investment Grade Corporate Index. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":45651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1718,1651,1711,1437,1691,1706,2234,1720,1952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}