{"id":9861,"date":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ssga-launches-intermediate-term-bond-etf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/ssga-launches-intermediate-term-bond-etf.html","title":{"rendered":"SSgA Launches Intermediate-Term Bond ETF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seekingalpha.com &#8211; As more investment pros warn of a bubble in Treasuries, State Street Global Advisors is launching an intermediate-term bond exchange-traded fund focused on investment-grade corporates and government debt.<\/p>\n<p>The SPDR Barclays Capital Intermediate Term Credit Bond ETF started trading on Wednesday. It&#8217;s expected to come with an annual expense ratio of 0.15%. It will follow an index of more than 2,500 bonds and a weighted maturity of 5.2 years.<\/p>\n<p>While ITR enters an investment-grade intermediate bond field with a few established competitors, the new ETF does track an index that offers somewhat different investment features than its rivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/120158-ssga-launches-intermediate-term-bond-etf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seekingalpha.com &#8211; As more investment pros warn of a bubble in Treasuries, State Street Global Advisors is launching an intermediate-term bond exchange-traded fund focused on investment-grade corporates and government debt. The SPDR Barclays Capital Intermediate Term Credit Bond ETF started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[584,4321,7378,3004,7386,7385,7381,7383,779,7379,7377,7376,7384,2544,6131,7380,7375,1716,7382,2652],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barclays","tag-barclays-capital","tag-bond-exchange","tag-bonds","tag-corporates","tag-etf","tag-exchange-traded-fund","tag-expense-ratio","tag-government-debt","tag-intermediate-bond","tag-investment-features","tag-investment-pros","tag-itr","tag-maturity","tag-rivals","tag-spdr","tag-state-street-global-advisors","tag-state-street-global","tag-term-bond","tag-treasuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}