State Street Planning Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF (EBND)

Over the past few years, investors’ comfort level with obtaining bond exposure via ETFs has increased rapidly as a multitude of new products have hit the market, slicing and dicing the fixed income space in new ways and enhancing the level of granularity available. While the proliferation of bond ETFs has touched virtually every sector of the domestic bond market, these securities have failed to achieve the same reach in foreign bonds, where the current crop of choices is somewhat limited. Currently, there are only eight ETFs between the International Government Bond ETFdb Category and the Emerging Market ETFdb Category, while there are more than 25 ETFs focusing on just the U.S. Treasury space. Perhaps sensing an opportunity in the international bond arena, issuers are beginning to focus efforts on this asset class. A recent filing from State Street detailed plans for the SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Stories: Van Eck Debuts Local Currency Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMLC) Why Emerging Market Bond ETFs Are Safer Than Developed Markets WisdomTree Launches Active Emerging Markets Debt ETF (ELD)