Vanguard Lowers Fees for Target Retirement Trusts
Vanguard has announced it is lowering fees for its Target Retirement Trusts by 5% to 10% across the board, saving investors an estimated $20 million.
Effective as of April 1, fees will fall between 0.25 basis points (bps) and 0.5 bps, depending on which program a client is invested in.
This fee reduction for Vanguard Target Retirement Trusts follows Vanguard’s announcement in December of new lower minimums for the Vanguard Institutional Target Retirement Funds. The lower minimums saved investors an estimated $16 million as more participants gained access to lower-priced funds.
Vanguard Target Retirement Trusts are organized as collective investment trusts (CITs), a type of pooled account that capitalizes on the economies of scale of larger workforces to lower costs. The trusts offer multiple price points so clients can reap the benefits of lower fees as plan assets grow.
SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF (EMHC). The fund was developed to provide exposure to US dollar-denominated debt issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign emerging market issuers.
EMHC may provide investors with an attractive source of income and diversification benefits due to emerging markets debt’s low historical correlation to other global bond sectors.
“With yields relatively low across US bond markets, investors are increasingly looking elsewhere to generate income,” said Sue Thompson, head of SPDR Americas Distribution at State Street Global Advisors. “Emerging market debt has seen solid growth over the last decade. However, we believe many investors may be under-allocated to this asset class. EMHC provides a convenient and cost-effective means to access emerging market debt while guarding against short-term fluctuations in the dollar.”
Legislature’s Senate Bill 22 power ploy puts Ohioans’ health at risk: Thomas Suddes
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Today 5:34 AM
In January, the Ohio Statehouse was encircled by fencing and windows were boarded up, with state troopers visible patrolling outside the building in downtown Columbus. Thomas Suddes in his column today chides Statehouse Republicans for using their legislative dominance to make Ohioans less safe with a law and veto override that throws public health into the dangerous realm of legislative whim. (Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland.com)
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If there were a Guinness Book of Irresponsibility, Ohio General Assembly Republicans would have earned themselves special mention. No, we’re not talking about school funding, nor about the $700 million that Ohio’s electricity customers must still pay to bail out two coal-fueled power plants, one in Indiana.
January, 25, 2021
Fitch Ratings - Colombo - 25 Jan 2021: Fitch Ratings has revised the National Long-Term Ratings of Sri Lankan financial institutions following the recalibration of the agency s Sri Lankan national rating scale. The recalibration is to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among Sri Lankan issuers following Fitch s downgrade of the sovereign rating to CCC from B- /Negative on 27 November 2020. Fitch typically does not assign Outlooks or apply modifiers to sovereigns with a rating of CCC or below. Revision ratings are used to modify ratings for reasons that are not related to credit quality in order to reflect changes in the national rating scale driven purely by the recalibration of the National Ratings Correspondence Table.
Fitch Ratings has revised the National Long-Term Ratings of Sri Lankan financial institutions following the recalibration of the agency’s Sri Lankan national rating scale. The recalibration is to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among Sri Lankan issuers following Fitch’s downgrade of the sovereign rating to ‘CCC’ from ‘B-‘/Negative on 27 November 2020. Fitch typically does not assign Outlooks or apply modifiers to sovereigns with a rating of ‘CCC’ or below. Revision ratings are used to modify ratings for reasons that are not related to credit quality in order to reflect changes in the national rating scale driven purely by the recalibration of the National Ratings Correspondence Table.