SCHI: Intermediate Corporate Bond Outlook
SCHI offers diversified exposure to US investment-grade corporate bonds with 5-10 year maturities, low expenses, and moderate interest rate sensitivity. The ETF uses a resampling strategy to minimize tracking error and transaction costs, maintaining a portfolio of over 2,200 bonds and a 21% turnover rate. Macro indicators like the butterfly heatmap and z-score suggest the current opportunity for tactical gains from curve or spread movements is limited.
SCHI: Imminent Middle East Issues Could Derail Cutting Hopes
The Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF has low expense ratios and focuses on industrial and financial bonds with above junk ratings. Oil prices and Middle East tensions are critical factors influencing rate cuts and inflation, impacting the ETF's performance through duration effects. While supply cut phaseouts mean downside for oil, we're somewhat concerned about the imminent dangers in the Middle East and the issues that could spring up around oil supply chains.
SCHI: Corporate Bonds Could Still Avoid Credit Risk (But Not For Long)
Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF is a passively managed fund that tracks the Bloomberg US 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index. SCHI has a low expense ratio of 0.03% and its ETF wrapper provides a tax advantage for taxable-account holders. The fund offers high diversification and exposure to industrials and financials sectors, but carries more credit risk than government bonds.
