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title: Corporate Bond ETFs Risk Profile
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5193084/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5193084
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5193084
featured: 2025-03-26
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Corporate Bond ETFs Risk Profile

The article reveals that corporate bond ETFs have lower liquidity risk but higher intermediary risk than the bonds they hold, especially for high-yield ETFs and those with less liquid portfolios.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5193084
- Identifier: SSRN 5193084
- Released: 2025-03-25
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 90 (2025-03-26): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-03-26/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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