Negative interest rate policies implemented by central banks in Europe and Japan have driven yields on many sovereign debt issues into negative territory.
If you look at the BAML Sovereign Bond index just 6% of the bonds had negative yields at the beginning of 2015. Since then the share of negative yielding bonds has increased to almost 30% of the index, see below.
With negative yielding bonds
becoming the norm investors are instead reaching for the remaining
assets with positive yields (i.e. US Treasuries). Private Japanese
investors have purchased nearly $70 billion in foreign bonds this year
with the sharpest increase coming after the BoJ adopted negative rates.
Additionally inflows into US Treasuries from European funds have
increased since 2014, see below.
According to an analysis by Bank of America Merrill Lynch for every $100 currently managed in global sovereign benchmarks, avoiding negative yields would result in roughly $20 being pushed into overweight US Treasuries assets.
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