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# Why Fallen Angels Outperform Consistently 

 

 

 Fran Rodilosso, VanEck’s head of fixed income ETF portfolio management, discusses the benefits of fallen angel bond ETFs.



 

 

 

 

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Credit spreads have widened from the ultra-low levels of 2021, but is the high yield bond market pricing in a recession? Fran Rodilosso, head of fixed income ETF portfolio management for Van Eck, sits down with [etf.com](https://ETF.com) Senior Analyst Sumit Roy to talk about that, as well as the outlook for a special type of junk bonds known as fallen angels.



 

 

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