Bond ETFs Survived Their First Big Crisis

Claire Ballentine | Bloomberg | May 14th, 2020

Sam Huszczo had long been a skeptic. Exchange-traded funds, already wildly popular among equity investors, were emerging as a cheaper, easier way to build a fixed-income portfolio than investing in a mutual fund. But after a decade-long bull market, no one could be sure how the new products would perform in a downturn. Would they exacerbate turmoil in their underlying markets?

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