Minimize Duration Risk in Corporate Bonds with the VCSH ETF May 18, 2021 Fixed income investors don’t have to venture too far out onto the yield curve in order to extract yield. They can do so with short-term corporate bond funds that minimize duration risk. One prominent example is the While corporate bonds may be subject to more credit risk than their government debt counterparts, they’ve been surprisingly steady during the pandemic. “Corporate bond markets have proven remarkably resilient in the face of the sharp contraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” a Forbes article said. “Bond issuance increased substantially in the last week of March 2020 and has remained substantially above average pre-pandemic levels. For example, between March and June 2020, $502 billion of corporate bonds were issued—compared to just $151 billion in 2019 and $204 billion in 2018.”