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As of May 2, 2018 the PowerShares BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond Portfolio MSCI ESG Fund Quality Score is 5.16 out of 10.

In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury position.

We are well known as a specialty manager of Canadian corporate bond portfolios.

Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Loren was a corporate bond portfolio manager and investment - grade corporate trader at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2010 — 2014).

And right now there's just a single ETF tracking one of these indexes: the PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio (PHB).

The strategies developed by the group help shape portfolio positioning for dedicated US Corporate Bond Portfolios, as well as the corporate bond holdings in US Core Bond Plus, Core Bond, Long, and Intermediate Bond portfolios.

As a US corporate bond portfolio manager and chair of the US Corporate Bond Strategy Group, Scott manages dedicated US corporate bond portfolios.

Fundamental weighting is also employed by some bond funds, including PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio and PowerShares Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio, both exchange - traded funds.

Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. is a specialty manager of Canadian corporate bond portfolios for some of Canada's most sophisticated investors.

The Canso corporate bond portfolios range from AAA to distressed debt.

A diversified corporate bond portfolio might get a higher return of 5 - 7 % and with lower risk than stocks, but you can still lose money, and we haven't talked about taxes yet.

Our Laddered Investing Interest Rate Scenario Tool helps you create sample laddered municipal and corporate bond portfolios and explore how they would perform in different rising rate environments.

Rising bond prices have produced nice returns for investors: at GBC, for example, the corporate bond portfolio is up about 10 per cent year to date.

So, a 60 % equities 40 % corporate bond portfolio has about the same return characteristics as a 70 % equities, 30 % government bond portfolio if you like to translate our portfolio weights into a Stock vs. Corporate Bond portfolio.

Two Factors: Volatility and Credit Spread To achieve better security selection, we chose two factors that empirically have demonstrated a strong relationship between factor exposure and performance statistics and that have long been incorporated in investment analysis by corporate bond portfolio managers.

He said investors «should think about hedging in some areas» and recommended ProShares Investment Grade — Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG), which «shorts Treasuries within a corporate bond portfolio.»

A corporate bond portfolio that matures at the end of Dec. 2013 and returns your upfront investment to you

Imagine for a moment that you are managing a large corporate bond portfolio for a major institution.

As 2005 - 2007 progressed, it was difficult to keep a balanced corporate bond portfolio, because almost half of all issuance was from financials.

Every investor will have days where they will have their head in their hands, like I did managing the huge corporate bond portfolio in September 2002, where I said to the high yield manager one evening as we were leaving work, «This can't keep going on like like this, right?

During his 38 - year investment career, he served as an investment officer for Southland Life Insurance Company, where he was a corporate bond portfolio manager and private placement analyst.

Not exact matches

Fill the bulk of your portfolio with a combination of high - rated bonds (weighted toward corporate, rather than government, debt) and high - quality, dividend - paying equities, and you likely won't take a hit.

And so what Marks is saying is that it does not matter if your portfolio holds a bunch of, say, «AAA» - rated corporate bonds and highly - rated government bonds like US Treasuries, which are, in theory, highly liquid assets.

Preferred shares can be an excellent substitute for corporate bonds in taxable portfolios, as explained in my earlier publication Why Invest in Preferred Shares?

Moderate income model portfolio: 3 % Bloomberg Barclays 1 — 3 Month Treasury Bill Index, 19 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (1 — 3Y), 30 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (5 — 7Y), 7 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (10 + Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index, 5 % JPM GBI Global ex. - U.S. Index, 5 % JPM EMBI Global Index, 12 % S&P 500 Index, 2 % Russell Midcap ® Index, 2 % Russell 2000 ® Index, 4 % MSCI EAFE Index (USD), 5 % FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed Index.

Moderate Growth and Income Four Asset Group model portfolio without private capital: 3 % Bloomberg Barclays 1 — 3 Month Treasury Bill Index, 11 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (5 — 7Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (10 + Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index, 3 % JPM GBI Global ex. - U.S. Index, 5 % JPM EMBI Global Index, 20 % S&P 500 Index, 8 % Russell Midcap ® Index, 6 % Russell 2000 ® Index, 5 % MSCI EAFE Index (USD), 5 % MSCI EM Index (USD), 5 % FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed Index, 2 % Bloomberg Commodity Index, 3 % HFRI Relative Value Index, 6 % HFRI Macro Index, 4 % HFRI Event - Driven Index, 2 % HFRI Equity Hedge Index.

Cumulative inflows into the iShares Short Maturity Bond ETF (NEAR), Floating Rate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio, and the Vanguard Short - Term Corporate Bond ETF topped $ 400 million in total for the first session of the week, the highest since the inception date of the most recent member of this product group.

iShares S&P ® / TSX ® 60 Index Fund («XIU»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index Fund («XIC»), iShares S&P / TSX Completion Index Fund («XMD»), iShares S&P / TSX SmallCap Index Fund («XCS»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Energy Index Fund («XEG»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Financials Index Fund («XFN»), iShares S&P / TSX Global Gold Index Fund («XGD»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Information Technology Index Fund («XIT»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped REIT Index Fund («XRE»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Materials Index Fund («XMA»), iShares Diversified Monthly Income Fund («XTR»), iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSP»), iShares Jantzi Social Index Fund («XEN»), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund («XDV»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Growth Index Fund («XCG»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Value Index Fund («XCV»), iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund («XBB»), iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund («XSB»), iShares DEX Real Return Bond Index Fund («XRB»), iShares DEX Long Term Bond Index Fund («XLB»), iShares DEX All Government Bond Index Fund («XGB»), and iShares DEX All Corporate Bond Index Fund («XCB»), iShares MSCI EAFE ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIN»), iShares Russell 2000 ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSU»), iShares Conservative Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XCR»), iShares Growth Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XGR»), iShares Global Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XGC»), iShares Alternatives Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XAL»), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund («XEM») and iShares MSCI World Index Fund («XWD»), iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund («XBZ»), iShares China Index Fund («XCH»), iShares S&P CNX Nifty India Index Fund («XID»), iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund («XLA»), iShares U.S. High Yield Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHY»), iShares U.S. IG Corporate Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIG»), iShares DEX HYBrid Bond Index Fund («XHB»), iShares S&P / TSX North American Preferred Stock Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XPF»), iShares S&P / TSX Equity Income Index Fund («XEI»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index Fund («XST»), iShares Capped Utilities Index Fund («XUT»), iShares S&P / TSX Global Base Metals Index Fund («XBM»), iShares S&P Global Healthcare Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHC»), iShares NASDAQ 100 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XQQ») and iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XEB»)(collectively, the «Funds») may or may not be suitable for all investors.

* Bonds are a portfolio consisting of the following: (data provided by DFA's Returns 2.0) One - Month US Treasury Bills (7.5 %) Five - Year US Treasury Notes (12.5 %) Long - Term Corporate Bonds (30 %) Long - Term Government Bonds (50 %)

A portfolio of five - year notes (20 %), long - term government bonds (35 %), long - term corporate bonds (30 %) and one - month t - bills (15 %) returned 2.7 % a year for this 32 year period.

Similarly, you should have a variety of bonds in your portfolio, including Treasury bonds, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, bonds with different maturities, foreign bonds and high - yield bonds.

Including both government and corporate bonds in your portfolio can further diversify it.

For people looking for ways to boost the income of a portfolio, that has often meant casting a wider net than the traditional core holdings of U.S. Treasuries and investment grade corporate bonds.

A CORE HOLDING FOR ANY PORTFOLIO This Fund seeks high current income and some long - term capital appreciation by investing primarily in Canadian federal and provincial government and corporate bonds, debentures and short - term notes.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Haverland was a portfolio manager, corporate bond analyst and trader at Jefferson Pilot Financial (now part of Lincoln Financial) in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he managed $ 2.6 billion in fixed income assets.

Using this approach, at least 50 % of a stock portfolio would be invested in the stocks of larger firms, and at least 50 % of a bond portfolio would be invested in high - quality bonds (government bonds, high - quality corporates and municipals).

In both ways, the Hussman Funds can contribute to a well - constructed, diversified portfolio that includes U.S. equities, international equities, U.S. Treasury securities, and as appropriate, precious metals shares, U.S. agency securities, investment grade corporate bonds, and Treasury inflation - protected securities.

Each month, Palhares and Richardson sorted corporate bonds into quintiles based on each liquidity measure and computed the return of a long / short portfolio that buys the least liquid bonds (i.e., smaller issue sizes, higher bid / ask spreads, lower trading volume, higher price impact or higher frequency of zero - trading days) and sells the most liquid bonds (i.e., larger issue sizes, smaller bid / ask spreads, higher trading volume, lower price impact or lower frequency of zero - trading days).

I have some corporate bonds in my passive portfolio.

Nice article, but like so many others writing about portfolio allocation from a UK perspective, there is absolutely no mention of corporate bonds.

The rates you want, the names you know: earn fixed income with corporate bonds in your portfolio.

In a well - diversified investment portfolio, highly - rated corporate bonds of short - term, mid-term and long - term maturity (when the principal loan amount is scheduled for repayment) can help investors accumulate money for retirement, save for a college education for children, or to establish a cash reserve for emergencies, vacations or for other expenses.

Although decades of history have conclusively proved it is more profitable to be an owner of corporate America (viz., stocks), rather than a lender to it (viz., bonds), there are times when equities are unattractive compared to other asset classes (think late - 1999 when stock prices had risen so high the earnings yields were almost non-existent) or they do not fit with the particular goals or needs of the portfolio owner.

All the corporate bonds in the portfolio are investment grade, rated BBB or better by DBRS or equivalent.

* Municipal bonds can also help insulate your portfolio against market volatility, and tend to have lower default risk than corporate bonds.

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greatecorporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greateCorporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

Depending on your risk tolerance and familiarity with individual corporations, now could be an opportune time to consider high yielding corporate bonds as part of your investment portfolio.

But sectors are also just one consideration in a well - diversified portfolio, which can have a mix of domestic, foreign, small -, mid - and large - sized company stocks as well as investment - grade corporate and government bonds.

The main benefit of investing through peer - to - peer lending platforms, as opposed to investing in traditional fixed income securities such as government bonds, corporate bonds, and bond funds, is that peer - to - peer loans have a low correlation with stocks and bonds, which make them a great diversifier for your investment portfolio.

So while low and negative interest rates across the globe has inspired flows into stocks, emerging market bonds and corporate credit in search of higher yields, keep in mind the high correlations of these assets to oil prices and the advantages of holding actual diversifiers in your portfolio to smooth the ride.