Foreign Bonds On Track To Outperform U.S. Fixed Income In 2025
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James Picerno6.87K FollowersFollow5ShareSavePlay(4min)CommentsSummaryEchoing the strong run in foreign equities in 2025, bond markets ex-US are also having a good year.Using a set of ETFs to track the major international buckets of fixed-income securities shows across-the-board outperformance over a popular US benchmark through Wednesday’s close (Dec. 17).A key tailwind for gains in foreign bonds in 2025 from a US-based investor perspective is the weak dollar. Maks_Lab/iStock via Getty Images Echoing the strong run in foreign equities in 2025, bond markets ex-US are also having a good year. Using a set of ETFs to track the major international buckets of fixed-income securities shows across-the-board outperformance over aThis article was written byJames Picerno6.87K FollowersFollowJames Picerno is the director of analytics at The Milwaukee Co., a wealth manager that is the adviser to The Brinsmere Funds, a pair of global asset allocation ETFs. He also edits CapitalSpectator.com and The US Business Cycle Research Report (CapitalSpectator.com/premium-research). He is the author of three books, including "Quantitative Investment Portfolio Analytics In R: An Introduction To R For Modeling Portfolio Risk and Return." Previously he was a financial journalist at Bloomberg and before that at Dow Jones.