U.S. Taxable Municipal Bonds have been on the watchlist of European Investors for most of this year. For non-US investors they have many appealing characteristics that differentiate from traditional government and corporate bonds. And for some segments of the market, for example Insurance Companies, they are checking more and more boxes.
What's been interesting is how U.S. Taxable Municipal Bonds are now getting noticed. What we see are institutions searching our fixed income feed for terms such as credit quality, low correlation, default rates, yield-to-worst and infrastructure bonds. Our search engine algorithms are returning U.S. Taxable Municipal Bond research. And the subsequent click rates are high.
Muni research is getting a lot of traffic inside RFPnetworks.
