6 ETFs For Giving Your Portfolio Cash A Yield Boost
These ultra-short bond ETFs allow you to gain as much as an extra 0.4% yield, while taking on little extra risk.
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Apr 28, 2021
I probably don t need to tell you that cash in today s financial markets earns pretty much nothing. Whether it s bank money markets, savings accounts or money market mutual funds, yields in most cases are at or very near 0%. With the Fed aiming to keep rates as low as possible indefinitely, there s not a clear timeline for when this situation might change.
The only real solution at this point is to push further out on the risk spectrum to get a yield boost, but even creates some problems. A broad investment-grade corporate bond ETF, such as the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD), only yields 2.3%. High yield bond spreads are near record lows.
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