Barclays Agg Credit Rating Dropped and Duration Doubled Since the GFC
Tom Lydon · Tom Lydon – ETF Trends (Capital Allocators, EP.56) · Jun 11, 2018 · at 49:31
Tom Lydon, CEO of ETF Trends, analyzes the shifting structural risks and composition of benchmark bond indexes.
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“The Barclays Ag is not the Barclays Ag that it was at the end of the financial crisis, right? So the credit rating, Is a lot less today than it was back then, number one. Duration is doubled since that period of time.”
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