Create deal flow —
Bond investors need scale; renewable energy and energy efficiency projects (markets) need to be aggregated into larger offerings suitable for the appetite of the big investors; Engineer investment grade offerings — High demand of low risk investments.
Corporate
bond investors need to look beyond yield and focus on an issuer's character, capacity, collateral and conditions.
Bonds Corporate Bond Analysis: What to Consider Corporate
bond investors need to look beyond yield and focus on an issuer's character, capacity, collateral and conditions.
Bond investors need to realize that most returns of the bond market are earned at three times: first, after the nadir of the credit cycle, credit - sensitive bonds soar.
Instead,
bond investors need to be chasing yield.
I just think there are a few things
bond investors need to understand about longer maturity bonds, so I was pointing out the possible risks.
Not exact matches
When rates go up, some of that money will tend to flow back into
bonds and away from the stock market, so
investors need to pay close attention to this, said McClanahan.
While
investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in
bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will
need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.
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.
«We already have an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Maroclear in Morocco but we
need to have it with international central deposits so that offshore
investors can have their
bonds in the book of only one central depositary,» he said.
Bonds can be a boon for any
investor who
needs help in the courage department.
And with a strong - enough economy spurring the Federal Reserve to raise short - term interest rates,
bond investors may
need to reduce expectations.
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ixed income
investors are going to begin to see their long - term
bond prices plummet and
need to be emotionally prepared for their portfolios to lose market value.»
But at least one analyst who tracks big Wall Street firms»
bonds says there may be an even bigger problem:
Investors, pressured by the
need to generate income, simply don't care whether the banks are too big to fail — one way or the other.
But if
bond prices crash,
investors will want to take their money out, the funds will
need to sell, and all those giant
bond funds that provided the bid for
bonds on the way up will turn into sellers on the way down.
For example, if you hold a
bond paying 5 % interest and market rates rise to 6 %,
investors would
need to pay less for your
bond to be compensated for the lower than market rate.
, then the next question is «what else do I
need to know to become a savvy
bond investor?»
This gives
investors a lot of options for tailoring the
bond portion of their portfolio to their specific
needs and risk tolerance using various
bond funds.
Bond act as both a volatility - minimizer for those
investors that can't stomach a large stock allocation and a source of stability during stock market sell - offs for either spending purposes or liquidity for those that
need to rebalance into lower stock prices.
The important questions that
investors need to ask are why do I own
bonds, and what purpose are they serving in my portfolio?
Bond guru Bill Gross thinks
investors need to «be careful in 2018» and cites six areas they
need to watch as the calendar is set to turn.
We see muted returns across asset classes in the coming five years, as structural dynamics such as aging populations help keep us in a low - return world, and we believe
investors need to go beyond broad equity and
bond exposures to diversify portfolios in today's market environment.
I'm not a savvy
investor and would like to know how (the steps
needed) to invest in treasury
bonds and how (the steps
needed) to withdraw 3 percent per year.
Investors need a reason to enter the green
bond market and that is where governments enter the picture.
Moody's
Investors Service, which downgraded Tesla's credit rating further into junk in March, still expects Tesla will
need to raise about $ 2 billion selling equity, convertible
bonds or debt, to offset the cash it burns this year and securities maturing through early 2019.
That's why an
investor should have money in
bonds, so that your short - term
needs, your intermediate - term
needs can be met from
bonds,» he told «Closing Bell.»
Mallouk, who is also a member of the CNBC Digital Financial Advisor Council, thinks
investors should have enough
bonds to meet their
needs — and that is all, since returns are expected to be muted.
Far more common, and often much more important for most types of businesses, interest expense on the income statement represents the cost of borrowing money from banks,
bond investors, and other sources to meet short - term working capital
needs, add property, plant, and equipment to the balance sheet, acquire competitors, or increase inventory.
Bond returns currently may not be up to the challenge of meeting the anticipated retirement
needs of U.S.
investors, research finds.
In order to get to his recommended target allocation the
investor needs to increase stock holdings by roughly $ 200,000 and
bond holdings by roughly $ 100,000.
AXL also recently issued $ 200MM its 2019
bonds, which gives some indication that the company can get
bond investors to refinance existing debt as
needed.
Apart from development banks and frequent borrowers on the lookout for ways to tap new
investors, most corporates saw neither the
need nor the advantage of issuing
bonds whose proceeds must be tied to environmental projects.
In this uncertain market,
investors need to remember why they own
bonds.
For muni
bond investors in the 4 high tax states profiled, there are a bevy of state specific funds that cater you your investment
needs, if purchasing bespoke muni
bonds is beyond your ken.
Credit or default risk -
Investors need to be aware that all
bonds have the risk of default.
Harbor might work, for example, with a company that owns and operates commercial properties and that regularly issues real estate securities like
bonds or stock in a building, but which also
needs to deal with complex legal stuff, like tax withholdings and minimum
investor requirements.
It's partly because of that volatility that fixed - income
investors need to reassess their commitment to
bonds.
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.
Preserve capital Repayment of the original investment in the
bond can help provide reassurance to
investors who are concerned about protecting capital or meeting intermediate - term financial
needs, such as college tuition or a down payment on a new home.
We think that's an important development for the diversification of the European
bond markets, but also for
investors who
need to have that global reach to be able to understand all the names being issued in Europe.
Generate income The interest payments that
bonds offer can help
investors build an income stream that can be reinvested or used to manage cash - flow
needs — either supplementing existing income or creating a source for income in retirement.
Some
investors fret that the new company didn't
need the money... so Howard Penney, an analyst at Research Edge, calls the
bond deal a «head - scratcher.»
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To bring portfolios back to asset allocation targets, most
investors needed to sell
bonds in order to purchase equities.
Since yield is an important component of a
bond investment's total return,
investors need to be able to answer this question in order to accurately assess whether an investment is right for them.
Instead,
investors need to focus on two more nuanced measures: the term premium and
bond market volatility.
An
investor need only master these few basic terms and measurements to unmask the familiar market dynamics and become a competent
bond investor.
Income - seeking
investors may
need to consider exploring riskier areas of the
bond market like high yield and EM
bonds.
If you are an income
investor with more than a five year horizon, you should be looking outside of the
bond market for your income
needs given the pitifully low yields on offer.