Global Sovereign Bond Index

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What is it?

The JPMorgan Global Sovereign Bond Index is a statistical composite of the collective performance over time of government bonds issued in the world’s 13 largest government debt markets, including western European countries, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. All bonds included in the index are guaranteed by their issuing governments and available to foreign investors. The index weights each country’s market according to its relative size.

Why do I care?

Changes and trends in the JPMorgan Global Sovereign Bond Index show the general direction, up or down, of the global government bond market. Investors can use this index to get a sense of global bond prices and interest rates (when bond prices are rising, interest rates are falling and vice versa) or to see how the performance of a particular government bond compares to the performance of the global bond market.