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ETFFI Alternative Credit Strategy: Diversified Credit Income with Lower Duration and Improved Risk Efficiency

Executive Summary The ETFFI Alternative Credit Strategy is a diversified fixed-income allocation designed to produce competitive income and total return while reducing reliance on the two dominant risks embedded in conventional corporate-bond portfolios: high-yield spread exposure and longer-duration investment-grade credit. The strategy combines high-yield bonds, short-maturity BBB credit, publicly traded alternative-credit exposures, short-duration investment-grade corporate … Read more

Introducing the ETFFI 5-Spot Model: A Lower-Risk Approach to Fixed Income Alpha

The traditional fixed income allocation often forces investors into an uncomfortable trade-off. A broad investment-grade bond portfolio can provide diversification and income, but it may carry substantial interest-rate risk. Adding high-yield bonds can improve income and return potential, but it also introduces greater sensitivity to the economic cycle and credit markets. The ETFFI 5-Spot Model … Read more

Income 10-Spot Model Rolling Attribution Report: July

  As of: July 8, 2026 Reference security: AGG Model: ETFFixedIncome.com Income 10-Spot Model The Income 10-Spot Model has outperformed its reference security, AGG, across each of the standard trailing return windows. The strongest relative results came over the 3M, 6M, and YTD periods, where the model’s income-oriented positioning, lower long-duration exposure, and allocation to … Read more