IB's intuitive web - based Post Trade Allocation (PTA) tool lets investors quickly allocate US stock, option and US
corporate bond orders post-trade.
Not exact matches
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and
bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration,
corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods and Factory
Orders for near term direction.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and
bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration,
corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japan's Leading Index and Machine Tool
Orders, German IFO, US Case - Shiller Home Price Index, New Home Sales, Richmond Fed and Consumer Confidence for near term guidance.
The Bloomberg Barclays Long - Term Government /
Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that includes fixed - rate debt issues rated investment grade or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation, or Fitch Investor's Service, in
order.
In
order to enhance these effects the Bank of Japan also purchased risk assets such as commercial paper,
corporate bonds, exchange - traded funds, and real estate investment trusts.
Although the deal was priced off the municipal
bond desk in the Public Finance division, sales teams in
corporate investment grade, wealth management capital markets and the firm's Investing with Impact Financial Advisor group were all used to build the
order book.
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?»
In the next few blogs, we will detail our approach to and back - tested results of employing credit spread (value) and volatility as factors in
order to systematically construct a portfolio of U.S. investment - grade
corporate bonds.
In any vanilla
corporate bond deal, when it comes to market for its public offering, there is a period of information dissemination, followed by taking
orders, followed by cutoff, followed by allocation, then the grey market, then the
bonds are free to trade, then a flurry of trading, after which little trading occurs in the
bonds.
Corporate bonds are not like stocks; they tend to get salted away by institutions wanting income in
order to pay off liabilities; they mature or default, but they are not often traded.
Shorter duration, high - yield
bonds, such as those captured in the S&P 0 - 3 Year High Yield
Corporate Bond Index, are up 0.09 % MTD and 1.85 % YTD (as of March 13, 2015), as investors move down the curve in
order to reduce rate volatility and term risk exposure.
Perhaps I'm overly sceptical, but unprecedented actions by central bankers around the world — zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) usurped by negative interest rate policy (NIRP), asset - buying programs being extended into
corporate bonds and even shares, a «whatever it takes» mentality — strikes me as firmly first
order thinking.