iBoxx® Bond & Loan Indices

Driving Liquidity and Transparency in the Fixed Income Universe


Find transparent, rules-based fixed income indices that can be easily replicated. iBoxx® bond indices offer broad benchmarking and liquid tradable index solutions that track bond markets globally.

Fueled by multi-source pricing, iBoxx provides transparency to bond market performance. A primary tool of active and passive investment managers, iBoxx is widely used by dealer banks, ETF issuers, buy-side investment firms and third-party vendors to benchmark portfolio performance and risk. ETFs linked to transparent iBoxx indices provide a transparent, cost effective way to gain exposure to different segments of the global bond market. Instead of purchasing hundreds of bonds, investors purchase a single ETF which trades actively on an exchange. iBoxx rules-based methodologies are publicly disclosed and designed to be replicable.

Key benefits

 
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Transparency

Index methodologies, daily index levels and composition information are publicly available on our website
 
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Flexibility

Customize existing indices or build new indices with expert collaboration to meet your investment criteria
 
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Liquidity

Regular market segment reviews and rebalancing ensure constituent selection represents performance of global bond market
 
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Objective pricing

Gain a clear view of the market with independent and multi-source pricing, where inputs undergo rigorous data checks
 
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Data integrity

Rely on data that has undergone rigorous and comprehensive quality controls
 
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Seamless distribution

Daily index levels are delivered through our FTP service and via many data vendors

iBoxx Explained

 

Bond basics: What are bond indices?

Learn more about the global bond market and the role that indices play.
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Building bond indices

Find out more about what goes on behind the scenes in index construction. We take a closer look at the rules-based approach used to create our USD Liquid Investment Grade Index.
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Index construction

How we build the iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade index?
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News & Information

Important notifications and public information about our indices, including changes to upcoming series following index rolls, credit events on constituents and issuance of new indices.
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Documentation

Publicly available documentation relating to our indices, including methodologies, annexes and educational guides, as well as trading and legal documents for tradable indices.
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iBoxx Indices Factsheet

iBoxx overview factsheet

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