swiss and japanese zero interest rate bonds

zdreg · Jul 19, 2016

can someone suggest a place that allows you to trade them?
any etfs or etns contain them?

Deuteronomy_24_7 · Jul 19, 2016

JGB futs trade on Osaka and Swiss bond futs on ICE. Any large FCM will execute/clear them.

Martinghoul · Jul 19, 2016

Swiss bond futures trade mostly on EUREX.

zdreg · Jul 19, 2016

let me clarify,I was interested in the securities themselves with 20+ years to maturity.

Martinghoul · Jul 20, 2016

zdreg said:
let me clarify,I was interested in the securities themselves with 20+ years to maturity.

Hard to imagine that you'd be allowed to short the actual securities, regardless of the broker...

steve_whitaker · Jul 20, 2016

Martinghoul said:
Hard to imagine that you'd be allowed to short the actual securities, regardless of the broker...

you can via the ETF JGBD, which is an inverse ETF for Japanese Gov bonds.

Martinghoul · Jul 20, 2016

steve_whitaker said:
you can via the ETF JGBD, which is an inverse ETF for Japanese Gov bonds.

The underlying for this ETF, from what I can see of its description, isn't a 20yr+ bond or index, which the OP asked for...

felixbocharov · Jul 20, 2016

can I ask you why to buy them?

Cswim63 · Jul 20, 2016

He's most likely trying to short them, Felix