Investors are ignoring low yields in pursuit of safety
That’s the subheading of the InvestmentNews article. An excerpt:
“Given year-to-date performance in domestic equities, people are starting to modify their portfolios to be positioned more conservatively,” said Vance Barse, wealth strategist and founder of Your Dedicated Fiduciary.
In addition to the fears related to stock market risk, Mr. Barse cited a handful of other factors driving investors toward bond ETFs, including lower fees and the rising popularity of indexed strategies.
See Flows into bond ETFs surpass those into equity ETFs for first time since 2009 in InvestmentNews.