Global fixed income: Considerations for U.S. investors

the non-U.S. bond market from approximately 19% in 2000 to approximately 37% in 2011 (Figure 1).2 And, in a reflection of the easing of investment barriers, investors today have access to vehicles such as broadly diversified, low-cost exchange- traded funds (ETFs), which make adding an inter-national bond allocation to a portfolio easy. The ................
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