Sentences with phrase «between investment grade»

What's more, just like the September - October pullback of 2014, market internals have been deteriorating at a noteworthy pace, whether one is looking at waning breadth of bullish stock participation or widening credit spreads between investment grade and higher yielding corporates / junk corporates.

The sectors covered by the active ETFs are Canadian Dividend, U.S. Dividend, Global Dividend, Preferred Shares and Crossover Bonds (those on the line between investment grade and high - yield).

My comment on this is as follows: if you have a certain asset allocation between investment grade bond etf and a stock etf and provided that you rebalance once the stock part gets high (high pe), you will tick all Graham's recommendations.

While there has been a spread between investment grade bonds and Illinois G.O.s the muni market kept the yields for these bonds relatively consistent up until now.

Not exact matches

Cannon figures that the average credit quality of a the big banks lending portfolio probably falls halfway between high - yield debt and investment grade.

An investment - grade company issue will pay you between 100 and 140 basis points more per year than a government one.

The iShares Intermediate Credit Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated investment grade corporate, sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency debt with maturities between 1 - 10 years.

More than 95 percent of NEARX is invested in munis that hold between an A and AAA investment - grade rating as of March 31.

There was a weaker correlation between the ability to trade (daily trading volume, issue size and frequency of zero - trading days) and credit spreads for both investment - grade and high - yield markets.

And in CMBS land, spreads on investment - grade triple - B bonds surged by 158 basis points between May and June.

We found 401 (k) plans with assets between $ 1M and $ 5M paid just 0.70 % annually for plan administration and fiduciary - grade investment advice.

Generally, anything rated between AAA and BBB - is considered «investment grade,» although different ratings agencies have slightly different rating notations.

Balanced portfolios tend to divide assets between medium - term investment - grade fixed income obligations and shares of common stocks in leading corporations, many of which may pay cash dividends.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

IMTB has a very broad mandate, covering investment grade and high yield corporate, government, and emerging market bonds with maturities between five and ten years.

But even within the past few months, spreads between investment - grade corporates and Treasuries remain above historical averages.

While the structure has still to be finalised, analysts believe Coles will have net debt between $ 1.5 billion and $ 2.1 billion — half of Wesfarmers» net debt of $ 3.9 billion — annual lease costs of $ 1.25 billion and fixed charges cover between 2.6 and 2.8 times, which should enable it to achieve an investment grade credit rating of BBB or BBB +.

Five year, $ 3 million investment to investigate how the Montessori approach produces achievement outcomes for children age three to third grade and may reduce the achievement gap between children from under - resourced communities and other children.

The back - tested results of the 17 - year period ending Feb. 28, 2017, show that the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficiency.

With money market rates close to 0 %, short - term bond rates between 0.3 % (treasuries) and 1.75 % (investment grade), and intermediate - term bond rates between 1.3 % (treasuries) and 3.1 % (investment grade), the PenFed 7 - year CD rate of 3.5 % is very good.

As expected, the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index sat between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors in the volatility spectrum.

Some optimists have been suggesting that the unusually strong correlation between stocks and investment grade bonds since February may persist for many months into the future.

Roepers looks for stocks between $ 1 billion and $ 20 billion in market cap, with investment - grade balance sheets and low interest expense.

The index has been broken down into respective subindices (the S&P Canada Aggregate Bond Index and S&P Canada High Yield Corporate Bond Index) that match the different money management styles between the high - yield and investment - grade categories.

We see investment grade debt as attractive in the tradeoff between yield and risk.

As rates have remained relatively range bound since the middle of March 2015, the performance difference between investment - grade and high - yield bonds has investors interested on both sides of the fence.

The yield spread between high yield and investment grade municipal bonds is now at 265bps or 2.65 % (on March 15, 2012 the spread was 351bps).

The fund invests principally in investment - grade, tax - exempt securities with an average dollar - weighted portfolio maturity of between three and ten years.

US and CAD investment grade credit spreads, the difference in yield between corporates and Canadas, tightened by.3 % and US high yield bonds tightened by 1 %.

The index measures the performance of US dollar - denominated, investment - grade, corporate bond securities publicly issued by non financial companies that have $ 250 million or more of outstanding face value at the time of inclusion and mature between March 31, 2015 and April 1, 2016.

This Index includes U.S. dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable securities issued by industrial, utility, and financial companies, with maturities between 5 and 10 years.

There was a weaker correlation between the ability to trade (daily trading volume, issue size and frequency of zero - trading days) and credit spreads for both investment - grade and high - yield markets.

These days, there is an ETF for all the main types of bonds — government, corporate, municipal, short - / medium - / long duration, investment grade, non-investment grade, emerging markets, developed markets, interest rate hedged, convertible, inflation - linked, variable rate, and mostly everything in between.

The S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index presents a unique credit alternative to bridge the gap between existing investment grade, which offers spread levels of around 150 bps, and high - yield corporate credit, which offers north of 600 bps in spread.

Similarly, when stock values plummeted between 2000 through 2002 following the dot - com bust, investment - grade bonds generated double - digit or near double - digit annual returns.

We could define the split between «investment - grade» and «high - yield» debt based on the cost of insuring against default for the next five years.

Yields of the Investment grade corporates as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index have tightened this month by 8 bps on average and across the rating scales range between 7 to 10 bps.

Lipper Categories: Ultra Short Obligation Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues or better and maintain a portfolio dollar - weighted average maturity between 91 days and 365 days.

The spread between utility dividend yields and the yield from a basket of long - dated investment - grade debt is fairly small.

Its current portfolio yield is around 5.6 % after management expenses, reflecting a midway exposure between investment - grade bonds and their high - yield cousins.

I've heard a lot of comparisons between Visual Novels and those Choose Your Own Adventure books we all probably had a few copies of circa third grade or so, but such comparisons really don't express the amount of investment Visual Novels are able to inspire.

Net lease investors are accommodating these new risks, too: «Safe» investment grade deals are trading at a cap rate of about 7.2 to 8.5 percent, compared to non-investment grade transactions that trade between 9 and 12 percent.

In October, U.S. Treasury yields declined 23 basis points on a year - over-year basis, while corporate debt on the low end of the investment grade spectrum increased more than 65 basis points, nearly a 90 basis point increase in the spread between U.S. Treasuries and the low - end of investment grade corporate bonds.

First, we were only interested in «investment grade properties» single family homes that are zoned to great school districts, built after 2000, between 1500 - 3000sf, with at least 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.

Transaction activity on investment grade properties in particular rose 33 percent between the first and second quarters of this year.