Sentences with phrase «just as bond»

just as bond managers look at yield spreads to commit capital, so should investors in risky assets aim for a margin of safety in what they invest.

Just as bond issuers occasionally go bankrupt, there's a chance the company behind your «guaranteed» retirement income will go belly - up.

Just as a bond's price can fluctuate, so can its yield — its overall percentage rate of return on your investment at any given time.

Just as bond prices go up when yields go down, the prices of bonds you own now will generally drop as yields — interest rates — go up.

Just as the bond between sodium and chloride is very difficult to break, the bond between lead and another element is not easily broken and does not happen through the normal process of digestion.

I've gifted copies to many teachers and friends, and am happy to report that our family's second read - through has been just as bonding as the first.

Not exact matches

For one thing, those 10 - year Canada bonds are yielding just 1.14 % and could lose value should interest rates rebound from their recent lows, as many market - watchers expect.

When you own a bond mutual fund, you don't actually own a bond — which will continue to pay a coupon so long as the issuer isn't in default — you just own a share of the fund, which is comprised of lots of bonds and sometimes other things.

Now what this road and the shipping lanes in the South China Sea, et cetera will do, is they will improve productivity and as a result we will see better multiples and better opportunities in Chinese markets and we're going to see more bonds floated in markets, not just in China, but in Europe and the US as well.

With revenues from the band's winery, golf course, luxury hotel and other ventures as collateral, it can now issue bonds just like municipal, provincial or federal governments — a first in Canada for a native band.

Mohamed El - Erian, CEO of bond firm Pimco, told his wife just after Lehman's bankruptcy to withdraw as much cash as she could from the ATM.

It's important to make your customers feel special and to create a bond, just as you would in a romantic relationship.

According to the insurer's 2017 annual report, it had just under $ 5 billion of net par exposure to Puerto Rico paper, including $ 1.5 billion to the island's General Obligation bonds, as of Dec. 31, 2017.

Since those investors are just looking for the highest returns, and not say buying bonds their financial advisor told them they needed bonds as part of their retirement planning, they are more likely to jump when rates rise.

The yield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.

And not just as a counterweight to more volatile equities — the steady decline in interest rates since the 1980s caused bond prices to rise, giving their holders» RRSPs a nice tailwind.

When Laurice Rahmé launched Bond No. 9, she had already conceptualized a bottle that would be just as memorable as the distinctive fragrances that would be contained within.

More from Balancing Priorities: What to do with your bond portfolio as Fed rates rise Credit scores are set to rise Don't make these money mistakes when you're just starting out «There is no sense in bearing the risk of an adjustable rate when you can lock in a fixed rate at essentially the same level,» he said.

A seeker of sexual pleasure, he explains, can get married or fornicate on the side — just as a seeker of financial gain can profit from an Islamic sukuk or a conventional bond.

Predictably, gold and bond prices are seeing advances as people try to flee to relative safety, but that could just mean equities are becoming a better value bet for those with greater intestinal fortitude.

That market participants have finally come to terms with the Federal Reserve's normalization plans is just one of the reasons short - term bonds are finally looking attractive again after years in the doldrums, as we explain in our new Fixed income strategy A mighty (tail) wind.

By leveling with workers not just as subordinates, but taking a real interest in their lives, managers can begin to foster the type of culture that values social bonding.

Financial experts say the central bank's intervention seems to have catalyzed a virtuous circle: As new governments come in and promise to deliver spending cuts, tax increases and balanced budgets, once gun - shy banks have an added incentive to tap new financing from the central bank and jump back into bond markets that they were running from just a few months ago.

For the money markets, it's not just that the Fed is buying fewer bonds as part of the taper but as the Fed holdings roll off, the Treasury needs to reissue to the private sector in order to pay the Fed back.

On the other hand, if you'll need the money in just a few years — or if the prospect of losing money makes you too nervous — consider a higher allocation to generally less volatile investments such as bonds and short - term investments.

Funds such as Pimco's MINT, which beats the bushes for bonds just outside the reach of money market funds with their 397 - day maturity limit.

It's just another number, but the milestone is widely viewed as another sign that the secular bull market in bonds that's prevailed for decades has ended.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

(Eco-groups will supplement with what tools of persuasion they have as well; just don't rely on them for wisdom on bond yields.)

Today, those bonds yield just over 3 %; the 10 - year Treasury currently generates about 2.3 % (source: Bloomberg, as of 10/19/2017).

Reuters reported that the BoJ, as it is colloquially known, is considering making negative interest rates a continued centerpiece of monetary policy, where bond buying has just not been enough to stimulate the economy.

I also have some investments outside of farming, mostly real estate, but some stocks and bonds as well.Maybe it's just because I'm an ignorant South Dakota farm boy who happens to like open spaces and seeing the stars at night.

It signals to the rest of Corporate America that many investors now look at social responsibility as an item just as deserving of funding in the bond market as any other core business activity.

Just as individuals have their own credit report and rating issued by credit bureaus, bond issuers generally are evaluated by their own set of ratings agencies to assess their creditworthiness.

It's just that with rates so low now there's not as much of a cushion if inflation picks up in the future, so volatilty will likely be higher than normal in bonds.

As long as Group of Seven nation bond yields remain generally lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay lower for even longeAs long as Group of Seven nation bond yields remain generally lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay lower for even longeas Group of Seven nation bond yields remain generally lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay lower for even longer.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

As we've also mentioned before — and as this year's bond market behavior emphatically demonstrates — longer - term bond yields don't have to rise just because the Fed is hiking rateAs we've also mentioned before — and as this year's bond market behavior emphatically demonstrates — longer - term bond yields don't have to rise just because the Fed is hiking rateas this year's bond market behavior emphatically demonstrates — longer - term bond yields don't have to rise just because the Fed is hiking rates.

At many points in this very unusual period (like 1988, 1996, 2003, and 2013) long - term bonds would have proven to be just as good a choice as stocks.

But put another way, this also means that stocks were just as good as bonds even under almost ideal conditions for bonds.

Btw the 10 year horizon is relevant to me as it is when I can take my 25 % lump sum from SIPP, so preferable taking it from bonds that have just been redeemed rather than selling down equities that may be in a bear market at the time.

However, if you hold bonds in your portfolio you might as well just increase your all world holding and reduce your bonds / cash.

If you don't plan to sell, however, you won't realize the capital loss, just as you wouldn't realize it if you held an individual bonds.

Since 1900 stocks returned 6.5 % annualized after inflation, bonds 2 % and cash — using T - bills as a proxy — just 0.8 %, according to London Business School academics Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton in research forCredit Suisse.

10 - year Canadian government bond yields had declined to as low as 0.90 % during mid-February, when recession fears hit an apex but ended the quarter at just over 1.2 %.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

The bond market can be just as unpredictable as the stock market.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

But, just like the furry creature that lived under your bed as a kid, the noneconomic bond investor does not exist.

Conversely, if I was just scraping by then I'd want a heavy allocation in inflation - linked bonds, or inflation - linked annuities — as much guaranteed income as possible.