
Efficient and cost-effective access to the bond markets with ETFs
Bonds are more difficult to buy individually than stocks, as bonds are traded over the counter (OTC), while equities are traded on exchange. To face the several challenges of bond market (liquidity, variety of available bonds, etc), investors can choose to allocate to bond ETFs to get efficient exposure to a broad and liquid basket of bonds in a single transaction, just as they would for an individual stock.