But they clearly meet our second condition by reducing the risk of steep losses: high - quality government
bonds offer significant protection during a market downturn.
Not exact matches
Although the retailers have been negotiating with
bond holders, who have accepted
significant discounts and
offered longer terms, the basic financials are enough for Moody's to rate 13.5 percent of the retailers it follows as a Ca or Caa credit risk.
While yields on government
bonds remain unattractive, according to Stopford, investment - grade corporate
bonds offer a modest pickup in yield — and high - yield
bonds, a more
significant advantage.
For borrowers, leveraged loans
offer two
significant advantages over high - yield
bonds: They are cheaper, by about 100 basis points on average at the moment.
The indicative yield of U.S. preferred stocks was 5.90 % YTD, which
offered a
significant yield pick - up over investment - grade corporates and comparable yield to high - yield
bonds.
It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government
bonds because government
bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a
significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity
bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to
offer something that is absolute returns.
Stocks are generally seen to be riskier assets, while
bonds offer more consistent performance but lack the potential for
significant price appreciation that equities can experience.
Since
bonds no longer
offer a
significant yield advantage, inflation risk has increased and the scales are currently tipping more in favor of higher - yielding dividend paying stocks, at least in my humble opinion.
While we can set up similar reinvestment program for
bonds, the swings in
bond prices are not as
significant due to the fact that
bonds offer greater investment security.
In response, they move money into stocks
offering significant dividends or high - yield
bonds — which may be bad moves in the long run.
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significant social
bonds.