As the crisis abates,
bond managers get tempted by the high yields of bonds that are lower in quality, lower in simplicity, and longer in duration.
Good
bond managers get a sense of when momentum is overdone, and act against it, but follow when the momentum is gentle.
Not exact matches
«People didn't
get their fill and they're still hungry for the
bonds,» said Robert Arnold, a New York - based portfolio
manager at TwentyFour Asset Management, which manages $ 16 billion.
The funds»
managers gradually shift each fund's asset allocation to fewer stocks and more
bonds so the fund becomes more conservative the closer you
get to retirement.
Portfolio
managers selecting
bonds from this grouping can gain access to the same risk factor without needing to buy all the
bonds in the index to
get the beta exposure.
The launch will allow any investor with a brokerage account to
get low - cost, liquid access to PIMCO's vaunted
bond manager, Bill Gross.
«Jeffrey Gundlach Celebrates Anniversary of
Getting Fired in Cockiest Way Possible,» blared the headline at New York magazine's «Daily Intel» website, which reported that asset
manager TCW fired the star
bond investor three years ago Tuesday.
You can consult your financial or account
manager to
get you an overall detail of your finances and advise on amount to invest in municipal
bonds.
As long as the loans are used to bid up property, stock and
bond prices, they can claim that they are «responding to the market» by
getting homeowners, commercial real estate investors, corporate raiders and financial
managers to pledge their assets as collateral for yet new loans in a process that seems to be self - sustaining.
If I am right that equity fund
managers are fully allocated to stocks now, the only way we can
get excess gains in the stock market is if new liquidity is created by bank lending, or liquidity is transferred from the
bond market to equities.
The
bond between sporting director Ralf Rangnick and
manager Ralph Hasenhuttl perhaps is not quite as solid as it was in light of their Champions League elimination and failure to
get anywhere closer to FC Bayern this season.
If you are a
manager of corporate
bonds, you
get to learn the speculation cycle.
Rather than put forth a costly effort to be known, it is cheaper to
get the
bonds wrapped by a well - known guarantor; not only does it increase perceived creditworthiness, it increases liquidity, because portfolio
managers can skip a step in thinking.
The only investors who didn't
get hit in 2008 were those lucky few who happened to be invested in U.S. government
bonds or cash — and a few hedge fund
managers.
Bottom line:
Bond ETFs do have portfolio
managers, and a skilled one will work to minimize tracking error on an ongoing basis so that investors
get the exposure they're seeking.
As time goes by and
bonds get closer to their maturity dates, the portfolio
manager will replace some of the shorter - term
bonds with longer - term ones in order to keep the average within the stated range.
The portfolio
manager bought two Great - West Lifeco Inc.
bonds earlier in 2017 that were trading at a discount to what he believed they would
get called at — par ($ 100)-- at the next call date.
When you hold premium
bonds in a taxable account you
get hit with a double whammy, says Justin Bender, portfolio
manager with PWL Capital in Toronto.
Got ta do more research; this would be a lot easier if I were back to being an institutional
bond manager, and had a better sense of the
bond market pulse.
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The fund's largest holdings include the usual suspects — government
bonds, a couple of ETFs (Canadian Dollar hedged, of course), and banks that aren't Bank of Montreal, because apparently this fund
manager WANTS to
get fired.
If the guarantor is not good, then the
bond manager has to
get an analyst to look at the underlying creditor.
However, when stocks go through a rough patch, active
managers can
get defensive by moving to cash, high - quality
bonds or other protective positions and slow the bleeding.
If you (or your portfolio
manager) hold on to your investment, you can enjoy the extra yield from these
bonds and
get back your principal upon maturity.
Portfolio
managers selecting
bonds from this grouping can gain access to the same risk factor without needing to buy all the
bonds in the index to
get the beta exposure.
Bond portfolio
managers increase average duration when they expect rates to decline, to
get the most benefit, and decrease average duration when they expect rates to rise, to minimize the negative impact.
Now, if you were a passive
manager like Vanguard, you wouldn't have to worry — just own an even slice of everything, and complain that you don't
get a decent allocation on
bond IPOs.
On that day, the new corporate
bond manager, with whom I would divide the portfolio (because it had
gotten so big) was there for the first time.
Back when dividend yields were higher, and corporate
bond yields were higher, both absolute and relative yield
managers flourished as interest rates and dividend yields crested in the early 1980s, and the stocks paying high dividends
got bid up as interest rates fell, much as the same thing happened to zero coupon and other noncallable long duration
bonds.
The averages tend to yield more than most
bond managers that I have talked with think they can
get.
Now you have to engage in an education campaign to
get some
bond manager to buy it, or, take a significant haircut on the price in order to move the
bond.
As a corporate
bond manager, when I
got on the wrong side of a trade, I would call my analyst to me and ask her for her unbiased opinion.
The Greek
bond of fraternity brothers or sorority sisters may be enough to
get a hiring
manager to want to help you.