Sentences with phrase «corporate bond rates do»

Not exact matches

And so what Marks is saying is that it does not matter if your portfolio holds a bunch of, say, «AAA» - rated corporate bonds and highly - rated government bonds like US Treasuries, which are, in theory, highly liquid assets.

Which doesn't cover investments in shares, the returns on which are directly affected by changes in the corporate tax rate (or the myriad of other investment vehicles liked bonds, REITs, mutual fund trusts, etc. that make up the bulk of the universe for Canadian investors).

To do that, you need to look at corporate bond funds with a similar duration, which is a measure of sensitivity to interest rate risk.

@Jerry, I agree that today the main risk in bonds is duration risk (AKA interest - rate risk)-- last weekend's Barron's has an interview with the UBS Wealth Management top managers pointing out this means convincing investors to switch from Treasuries and investment - grade corporates to well - selected junk (HYLD is a jewel there — DO N'T go for index funds in bonds, very differently from ones in stocks they make no sense... where's the sense in wanting to lend more to companies which are more indebted?!

We love high yield corporate bonds; they pay a lot more interest than treasuries and also because these are not the greatest borrowers — I'm not talking little companies; think CitiBank and other very big companies that don't have a pristine credit rating — they can not lend money out very long so the maturities of our high yield bond fund is closer in.

IGHG and HYHG do not attempt to mitigate factors other than rising Treasury interest rates that impact the price and yield of corporate bonds, such as changes to the market's perceived underlying credit risk of the corporate entity.

An investment grade rating ensures that credit risks are still pretty low, although corporate bonds won't perform as steadily as government bonds if the market ever swoons again like it did in late 2008.

Ranking corporate bonds and corporate loans against each other — no one should argue that they did a bad job rating them in aggregate.

Here's a graph to show how yields have done over the last 15 years for various corporate bond ratings.

Suppose we had seven guys in the room, an economist, a guy from a ratings agency, an actuary, a guy who does capital structure arbitrage, a derivatives trader, A CDO manager, and a guy who does nonlinear dynamic modeling, and we asked them what the spread on a corporate bond should be.

The fund focuses on corporate bonds but does have the flexibility to invest in Treasuries, MBS and other similarly rated debt securities.

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