Sentences with phrase «bond holdings over»

Jon Smith, of DT Investment Partners, discusses the effect of an interest rate hike on bond markets... see why we prefer individual bond holdings over engineered ETFs in this environment.

Nebuchadnezzar's sins, conceived of as debts, have risen to such a level that his creditor, God, is about to demand repayment in the form of punishment: He is calling in the bond he holds over this unfortunate debtor.

Not exact matches

Mutual funds are still the most common way for Canadians to hold stocks and bonds, and the war over their fees and transparency is headed for a new battleground.

Neither argument holds right now for holding any tactical cash, especially with no reasonable prospects for a near - term rate increase and the yield differential offered by bonds over cash right now.

Careful portfolio management, he said, would allow the central bank to absorb the losses over time by trying to hold bonds to maturity rather than selling at a loss.

In theory, you could hold an individual bond to maturity and never lose any money even though the market value of the bond may fluctuate based on changing interest rates and other factors (but you could still lose out to inflation over time).

Pimco Total Return Fund holds over $ 240 billion in assets and is piloted by noted bond fund manager, Bill Gross.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

Unconstrained bond funds have been known to move very quickly in and out of certain credits, even holding over 50 % cash at times.

The idea is that you want to hold enough stocks to earn the returns you'll need to grow your nest egg over the long - term, but also enough in bonds to provide some downside protection so you don't bail out of equities in a severe downturn.

An ETF holds assets such as stocks, supplies, or bonds and trades at approximately the same price as the net asset value of its underlying assets over the course of the trading day.

Suppose that over the first 10 years of your holding period, interest rates decline, and the yield - to - maturity on your bond falls to 7 %.

The term premium is the extra compensations investors require for the risk of holding a long - term treasury bond versus a sequence of short - term treasury bills over the same period.

If you buy the bond when issued and choose to hold until maturity you'll get back the face value of the bond plus the interest incurred over a ten year period.

Over time the funds typically decrease holding of stocks in favor of less volatile investments such as bonds, inflation - protected securities and the least volatile of them all — cash.

For those reluctant to buy bonds «now» I would like to point out that, having held an allocation to gilts for over 20 years, in all that time the future return on gilts has never looked good.

By buying and holding bonds until maturity, investors can also buy bonds with coupon payments and maturities that meet specific income needs, as they know exactly how much they are going to receive over the life of the bond.

To this end, iShares Canada has seen the dollar amount of custom creations — a process by which institutional investors convert their individual bond holdings into units of ETFs — double in the past year to over $ 1 billion through June, according to BlackRock data.

But I just reallocated about 1/3 of the bond holdings into equities due to the slight dip over the last few weeks.

This may seem impossible when you see her joyfully holding her belly and feeling him kick inside her, but her bond deepens over time as she inherently responds to his needs, and as the baby responds to her love and care.

(i.e. there governmental bond holdings, to make it possible to compare what they would lose by the government defaulting as compared to what they would gain by not being taxed to repay the debt over X years?

The animation series goes on to reveal Om Nom's mischievous, yet endearing personality as he and Evan bond over day - to - day activities such as playing games, exploring house - hold items and celebrating holidays.

These two public figures couldn't have been much different from each other, but the script (Joey and Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes) finds a way to have these two icons hold a conversation... bonding over their mutual hatred of The Beatles.

The three so - called bad moms quickly bond over Amy's big PTA bust up, sealing their wacky relationship in a no - holds - barred sequence that sees them drunkenly destroying their local supermarket.

Liman's approach to film - making, that is actually shooting each scene himself, lends to the film's raw element, choosing hand - held camera scenes over lush wide pans so characteristic of the Bond films.

While the actor has changed, the latest Bond holds hard to its formula plot: A madman is about to take over the world.

A bill that would prohibit school districts from entering into financial contracts with the same firms that provide bond measure campaign services is being held over until next year as the author attempts to gain support for the proposal.

Over 10,000 baby boomers are retiring a day, and even more, are increasing bond holdings in their retirement portfolios to prepare for retirement.

Most bond investors take a buy - and - hold strategy, partially because bonds are less liquid than stocks but also because the income characteristics of bonds are attractive over the long - term.

Typically, target date funds will reduce the amount of stocks they hold and increase their bond allocation in a bid for a more conservative allocation over time.

This hit me after holding the bond for over 15 years with only 5 years remaining until maturity.

Holding long - term bonds over the long - term is a scary proposition — rates are bound to increase someday which would cause the value of TLT to drop.

So take this time to go over your holdings and tally up how much you have in stocks and how much in bonds.

I don't hold this view with a ton of confidence, but today's selloff was supposedly due to the Fed deciding to consider selling some of the bonds that they have bought over the last six months or so.

So if you had a choice between a bond and a GIC over 3 years and you were going to hold to maturity, you're kind of indifferent between the two as long as they're both paying 3 %.

Holding a globally diversified portfolio with 40 % bonds, for example, historically reduced risk by 41.64 % while increasing returns by 0.64 % per year over a Canadian stock - only portfolio.

Individuals add money to the account over time and use it to to purchase investments (such as individual stocks, mutual funds and bonds) that are held in the account.

Yes, I like having the past on my side, but my own portfolio is a combination of over 12,000 stocks (through index funds)-- approximately half in stocks, half in bonds, half in growth, half in value, half in large, half in small, half in international, half in U.S. half in buy and hold and half in market timing.

The idea is that you want to hold enough stocks to earn the returns you'll need to grow your nest egg over the long - term, but also enough in bonds to provide some downside protection so you don't bail out of equities in a severe downturn.

Strategic Dividend Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

Maybe because of the shorter term nature of when you need that money, plus the way that it's taxed, maybe you hold more conservative investments your fixed income or your bonds over there.

With an attractive yield advantage over comparable maturity government bond mutual funds of similar duration and quality, the Fund may serve as a core holding for building diversified income portfolios.

His analysis of stock market data suggests that increasing precious metal equities while reducing long - term bond holdings is a superior way to risk - proof your portfolio over the long term.

As Russia and GLD have been demonstrating so aptly over the past 5 months, gold is not dilutable, and can not be contaminated with various Greek sovereign bond holdings.

Over two - thirds (68.4 per cent) of the 212 actively managed ETFs worldwide are in fixed income because bond managers are more comfortable than equity managers in providing transparency on their portfolio holdings.

As with most fixed - income securities, zero coupon bonds offer investors a high degree of safety when held to maturity and the opportunity to earn compound interest over the life of the bond.

There is also much fear of the unknown when it comes to holding bond funds over individual bonds, which I believe is unwarranted.

Bonds and bond funds can be held in either type of account, but some investors will have a reason to choose one account type over the other.

An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities or bonds, and generally trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day.

We still hold substantial allocations to both Portuguese bonds and Indian «masala» bonds, and we are concerned over the economic situation in Australia - the housing market is stretched and consumption is subdued.