The ability of companies to make money and service their debt is weakening, analysts say.
Economists forecast a slowdown in business activity, threatening earnings in the second half.
Junk-rated corporates face the prospect of falling income and higher borrowing costs.
The global credit market remains under pressure from rampant inflation.
The seven ETFs carve U.S. high-yield bonds into industries from telecom to energy.
A global index of investment-grade company debt has posted total return losses of 2.2% since the start of the year.
They plan to create seven exchange-traded funds carving up the U.S. high-yield debt market.
Bond investors have been cutting down on broad-brush bullish bets lately.
Catastrophe bonds insure against natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and pandemics.
Money managers are betting that vaccine rollouts in the U.K. and U.S. will allow a return to normal life by the summer.