Sentences with phrase «bond managers like»

Many bond managers like to own RMBS for its high credit quality, liquidity, and attractive yields, but the problem is this: when interest rates move, the RMBS does what you don't want to see happen.

Not exact matches

The world's largest money managers — companies like Blackrock, Vanguard, or Fidelity — manage trillions of investor assets in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and more.

In the old days of bond investing, you would pick a bond fund with a narrowly defined mandate, like «medium - term corporates,» and the bond manager would spend his life trying to outperform the stated benchmark.

I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.

These are like mutual funds, where a manager buys individual bonds and then allows you to invest in the entire portfolio with just one purchase.

Pension fund managers invest in assets like stocks, bonds and real estate in hopes of generating a safe return.

«We would like to see more asset - backed or corporate green bonds, since issuance has been limited, and we are interested buyers,» says Delmar King, fund manager at Praxis, the investment arm of Everence Financial of Indiana.

The manager brings in players early before the tour, which is great because you need to bond with them and know what they're like, on and off the pitch.

But no - one can deny Ranieri's side their remarkable workrate and supreme team spirit as the entire squad, including many players who were written off with other clubs, came together to form a indefatigable bond, seizing their chance under a manager who was greeted when he arrived last summer with some scepticism after a patchy career but who proved that experience is invaluable after spells at the likes of Chelsea, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Inter Milan.

At Holyoke there were bond analysts and lawyers and day traders and city managers and school administrators, all of them caught with their hands in the till and nothing at all like me, an eighteen - year - old accidental arsonist and...

Here's my take: risk arb is like being a high yield bond manager.

(I'm not a bond manager now, though I would like to run a bond fund again at some point.)

The unconstrained strategy can be thought of in two ways: always trying to earn a positive return with high probability (T - bills are the benchmark, if any), or being willing to accept equity - like volatility while the bond manager sources obscure bonds, or takes large interest rate or credit risks.

Think of it like this: no one celebrates an equity fund manager who outperforms a bond fund, because it doesn't take skill to simply accept stock market risk.

In David's inaugural column on Amazon money and markets «Trees Do Not Grow To The Sky», he calls attention to: «If interest rates and inflation move quickly up, the market value of the bonds that you (or your bond fund manager) hold can drop like a rock.»

«Bond ETFs have become like whales in the market,» said Regina Borromeo, a London - based money manager at Brandywine Global Investment Management, which oversees $ 70 billion of assets.

In some ways, we need to retrain all investors to think like bond managers — examining balance sheets, cash flow statements, and avoid companies that have higher probability of bankruptcy.

When I worked in the investment department of a number of life insurers, every now and then I would hear one of the portfolio managers say, «We know that the rating agencies are going to downgrade the bonds of XYZ Corp, but we like the story.

As their corporate bond manager, before I left, I sold down positions like that that my replacement might not understand, but I did not control the MHABS portfolio then, and so I could not do that.

That said, it was even more precious when I tried to explain what I did as a corporate bond manager to my kids seven years ago (100 phone call per day), and the then eight - year - old said, «It's like ordering pizza all day, right?»

As per research, most of the Debt Mutual Fund Managers of categories like Monthly Income Plan (MIP), Income Funds, Gilt Funds, Dynamic Bond Funds etc. who charge high Expense Ratio are not able to generate enough Alpha or extra return by active management to compensate for the higher expense ratio charged by the fund.

Essentially, hedge fund managers and other active traders can buy individual bonds that they like and then hedge their overall bond market exposure by short sell ¬ ing an index - based ETF.

I think of these groups like a bond manager would think about credit ratings for different classes of bonds.

Like the «Rip» portfolio, robos do just about everything sophisticated money managers do: variants of a standard portfolio consisting roughly of 60 per cent stocks to 40 per cent bonds, with the precise proportions varying with age, risk tolerance and investment objectives.

And there are some tricky categories where active managers have an edge, like international small - cap funds and emerging market bond funds.

Now, for a city like Los Angeles, maybe that's not needed, but most municipalities are small issuers, and there is not enough manpower at bond managers to analyze them all.

In closing, as an aside, can you imagine a question given at the Presidential debates that went something like this: «Senator, the leading bond manager of our country, and many leading financial writers (e.g. James Grant, Barry Ritholtz) have argued that the way that the government calculates the CPI is flawed, and understates the change in the cost of living.

Instead of hiring fund managers to actively select which stocks or bonds the fund will hold, an index fund buys all (or a representative sample) of the securities in a specific index, like the S&P 500 Index.

You aren't supposed to act like a market - maker as a bond manager.

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.

It's like being a bond manager — if the excess returns are small from taking additional risk, you don't take additional risk.

Every investor will have days where they will have their head in their hands, like I did managing the huge corporate bond portfolio in September 2002, where I said to the high yield manager one evening as we were leaving work, «This can't keep going on like like this, right?

You just spent two hours smashing behavioral questions out of the park like a juiced - up Barry Bonds, leaving the hiring manager staring at you in amazement like she just bumped into George Clooney at Walgreens.

Avoid the hassles of emergency repair calls, non-paying tenants, or other things that interrupt your every day life — consider multifamily real estate investments, which have the profit margins necessary to hire property managers and other professionals to eliminate your direct involvement — but still provide gains comparable to traditional investments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.