You could lose money on your investment in the Fund or the Fund could underperform because of the following risks: the market prices of stocks or
bonds held by the Fund may fall; individual investments of the Fund may not perform as expected; and / or the Fund's portfolio management practices may not achieve the desired result.
All of the Fund's investments will be selected through the sampling process, and at least 80 % of the Fund's assets will be invested in
bonds held in the Index.
Domestic emerging market bonds - those issued within an emerging market country - make up about 3/4 of the amount of debt in the emerging market bond markets but because it can be difficult for a variety of reasons to trade in domestic emerging bonds, emerging market
bonds held by foreign investors are usually foreign or external emerging market bonds.
That is, a credit default swap could not be entered for purely speculative purposes, but only to offset the default risk of the same or similar
bonds held by the investor.
It may refer to appreciation of company stocks or
bonds held by an investor, an increase in land valuation, or other upward revaluation of fixed assets.
For example, interest from individual bonds is reported on Form 1099 - INT, but interest from
bonds held through a mutual fund is called an «interest dividend» and reported on Form 1099 - DIV.
Later, as you move closer to retirement and the number of future tosses declines, it's prudent to scale back the short - term risk of loss by gradually increasing the percentage of
bonds held in the portfolio.
And, no, this isn't some crazy pie - in - the - sky strategy: It's how I handle my own portfolio — with my taxable account entirely in stock - index funds and all
my bonds held in my retirement account.
The bonds held in this portfolio all have an effective maturity date of 2018 as determined in accordance with a rules - based methodology developed by PC - Bond.
The market weighted average rate of return anticipated on
the bonds held in a portfolio if they were to be held to their maturity date.
The bonds held are U.S. dollar denominated sovereign debt from emerging market issuers, and the currency is hedged back to Canadian dollars.
This rule of thumb assumes a 50/50 mix of stocks and
bonds held throughout a retirement lasting 30 years, and is based on the historical performance of US stocks and bonds since 1926.
The US Government
bonds held are a convenient accounting fiction to show that the taxes paid have been spent for other purposes.
What I don't understand is what is the duration of
these bonds held by the fund?
With over $ 300billion of municipal bonds and over $ 400billion of corporate and foreign
bonds held by these companies shows the pool of assets these companies could tap to offset liabilities is significant.
Even as junk bond yields fell into the 6 % range, investor demand for
bonds held up well, and the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEMKT: JNK) and iShares iBoxx HY Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEMKT: HYG) were among the best - performing funds with returns of around 11 % to 12 %.
I would rather ask my financial advisor what is the duration of my bond portfolio and how I am at risk with
the bonds held in my funds.
Indeed, in some portfolios, e.g., high - grade municipal
bonds held by individuals, almost no attention is paid to market prices.
The total amount of Savings
Bonds held across all issues can not be more than $ 100,000.
If long term interest rates were to increase, the prices of
the bonds held by funds such as LQD would drop, and therefore the share price of LQD would drop as well.
However when you decide to sell LQD, the share price may not be where it was when you bought it, even though many of
the bonds held in the fund's portfolio may have matured.
Bond portfolio management strategies based on sector rotation involve varying the weight of different types of
bonds held within a portfolio.
During the final year of the Fund's operations, as
the bonds held by the Fund mature and the Fund's portfolio transitions to cash and cash equivalents, the Fund's yield will generally tend to move toward the yield of cash and cash equivalents and thus may be lower than the yields of the bonds previously held by the Fund and / or prevailing yields for bonds in the market.»
The bonds held by CLF all have fairly high coupons (ranging from 4.25 % to 6.10 %), so they throw off a nice stream of income, which gets paid out to the fund's investors every month.
Ideally, you would want to have more tax efficient investments like Canadian stocks held outside your RRSPs and less tax efficient investments like
bonds held inside your RRSPs.
Bonds held up quite nicely: both XSB (short - term Canadian bonds) and XRB (real - return bonds) posted modest gains.
Distributions for a bond ETF represent interest earned from
the bonds held in the fund.
Interest earned on the government
bonds held by the trust funds provided the remaining 10.1 % of income.
If a fund's investor is a resident in the state of issuance of
the bonds held by the fund, interest dividends may also be exempt from state and local income taxes.
The comparison makes no allowance for the potential impact of reduced long - term capital gains and qualified dividend tax rates, nor of the potential tax exemption for some municipal
bonds held in taxable accounts.
Sure
bonds held up this time, but what other assets did as well as bonds?
For a bond fund, consider also the average maturity of
bonds held in the particular fund.
The Fed has the choice of whether government liabilities take the form of
bonds held by the public, or money held by the public.
The Federal Reserve can alter the mix of government liabilities (
bonds held by the public vs. money held by the public), but the total amount of these liabilities is determined by fiscal policy, not monetary policy.
I expect interest rates to rise at some point in the future which should cause the value of
the bonds held to decline.
(The float - adjusted index excludes
bonds held by the Federal Reserve, which has been trying to depress bond yields and other interest rates through its massive government - bond purchases.)
If interest rates rise, the values of
bonds held by the fund would fall, negatively affecting total return.
On the last point about the increase in the debt, what is missed is that a lot of the government debt increase is hidden by the non-marketable Treasury
bonds held by the entitlement programs.
The price of the assets would include the closing price on the stock rather than a bid or ask, similar pricing for
bonds held by the fund, derivatives and cash equivalents.
A similar agreement was reached eight years later with the Paris Club of creditor nations (the last remaining Argentine debt still in default besides
bonds held by holdouts) on debt repayment totaling $ 9 billion including penalties and interest.
That's 19 percent of the $ 6.26 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and
bonds held by foreign countries.
Banks in the US have always been large holders of bonds, but at the moment bank holdings pale in comparison to the magnitude of bond exposure in the mutual fund complex and
bonds held at the household level.
If a fund's investor is a resident in the state of issuance of
the bonds held by the fund, interest dividends may also be exempt from state and local income taxes.
That's 19 percent of all US Treasuries, notes, and
bonds held by foreign countries.
Many make periodic dividend payments based on the interest paid by
the bonds held in the fund.
Let's attach numbers: bank reserves are $ 1bn, the interest rate on reserves (and bonds) is 10 %, and we'll vary the stock of
bonds held by the central bank.
If a fund investor is resident in the state of issuance of
the bonds held by the fund, interest dividends may also be exempt from state and local income taxes.
The 1950s witnessed a strong bull market in stocks, but when the S&P 500 fell double digits in 1957
bonds held up really well.
Typically they make periodic dividend payments based on the interest paid by
the bonds held in the fund.
Although the income from municipal
bonds held by a fund is exempt from federal tax, you may owe taxes on any capital gains realized through the fund's trading or through your own redemption of shares.