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FIXED INCOME ETFs AND THE CORPORATE BOND LIQUIDITY CHALLENGE

Investors today face a number of liquidity challenges in the corporate bond market. Liquidity, measured by both trading volumes and average trade size, has seen limited growth since 2007 despite record bond issuance over the same period. In the over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bond market there is a fragmentation of issuance, whereby dozens or even hundreds of unique securities are issued by the same entity…

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