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The investment seeks current income. The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in U.S. government obligations and repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government obligations; and up to ...

The Fund returned 1.83% in Q3, benefiting from MBS spread tightening and an overweight to securitized credit. Explore our ...

Gilt-edged securities are high-grade investment bonds offered by governments and blue-chip companies as a means of borrowing ...

The $21-trillion market in U.S. government securities is the “deepest and most liquid fixed-income market in the world.” Except, of course, when it isn’t. As last year’s historic meltdown in the ...

The fund aims to outperform the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Ex-Credit Index by focusing on high-quality, agency-backed mortgage and asset-backed securities. Quarterly underperformance was mainly due to ...

Interest rate increases result in unrealized losses for held-to-maturity debt security investments, but these losses do not appear in the financial statements (as long as there are no impairment ...

Vanguard Government Securities Active ETF (VGVT) declares total distribution of $0.5773, which includes monthly distribution of $0.262 and STCG of $0.3152. 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.80% as of Dec. 15.

Sebi has eased compliance norms for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) investing solely in government securities under the fully accessible route. These GS-FPIs are now exempt from providing investor ...