Sentences with phrase «discuss bond ratings»

We'll discuss bond ratings, tax savings, and risks to investing in the bond market.

In this article published in The Australian, Roger discusses bond rates, interest rates and debt in Australia.

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The «Futures Now» team discusses the rise in bonds as the Fed looks more likely to raise rates in two weeks.

The «Futures Now» team discusses moves in the bond market and where interest rates may be heading with Jackie DeAngelis.

Jon Smith, of DT Investment Partners, discusses the effect of an interest rate hike on bond markets... see why we prefer individual bond holdings over engineered ETFs in this environment.

David Kotok, chairman at Cumberland Advisors, discusses the Fed's policy path next year, the impact of the rate hikes on the bond market and his outlook for 2016.

Scott Mather, CIO U.S. core strategies, Joachim Fels, global economic advisor, and Olivia Albrecht, fixed income strategist, discuss PIMCO's view on the stock / bond relationship, value in U.S. assets, the Fed's inflation target and rising rates in 2018.

I also discussed in Article 8.3 that Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) bonds are likely to provide a particularly good hedge against the true risk of unexpected inflation rate increases.

Before we get to that, there's something that many investors forget when discussing the implications from rising rates on bond returns.

From a global policy perspective, we think the Fed's recent hikes are the first stage in a cycle that will later this year see the European Central Bank (ECB) discuss a more normalized rate policy, and then lastly Japan's BoJ may at least expand its 10 - year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield target range.

We don't discuss bonds often in this blog, mostly because interest rates are currently at artificial lows.

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While this might not seem like a crazy boost from the 2.96 % yield of the fixed income ETF that I just discussed, it's larger than it seems because dividends are taxed at a favorable rate compared to the interest income generated by bonds.

ProShares Head of Investment Strategy Simeon Hyman discusses how ProShares Interest Rate Hedged Bond ETFs target a duration of zero to eliminate interest rate rRate Hedged Bond ETFs target a duration of zero to eliminate interest rate rrate risk.

The changing interest rates we discussed above affect a bond's value.

Again, this is something I rarely see discussed when comparing different investments — bonds and other interest income is regular taxable income (taxed at your normal marginal tax rate) rather than at the much more advantageous long - term capital gains or dividend rate.

Julie Cooling, CEO of RIA Channel, speaks with ProShares» Simeon Hyman during the 2017 Inside ETFs conference to discuss two of 2016's top - performing ETFs, REGL and SMDV, Simeon's optimistic outlook for mid - and small - cap equities, and interest rate hedged bond solutions for a rising rate environment.

As we've discussed before, the duration of a bond fund is an important indicator of its risk level because the longer the duration, the more the fund's price will fluctuate as a result of changes in market interest rates.

Since this site is not really about bonds, there is a separate page discussing how bond prices change as they ride down the yield curve, and what losses would be expected from a change in market rates, and how to use the spreadsheet (Excel and OpenOffice).

In this article for Cuffelinks, Roger discusses quantitative easing and why long bond rates can not stay low forever.

A sizable body of literature discusses the risks associated with carry strategies and the failure of spot prices to converge, such as the failure of uncovered interest rate parity in currency markets beginning with Fama (1984) and Hodrick (1987); the failure of the expectations hypothesis in bond markets (Fama and Bliss, 1987); and the persistence of contango and backwardation in commodity markets, as far back as Keynes (1930).

I also discussed in Article 8.3 that Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) bonds are likely to provide a particularly good hedge against the true risk of unexpected inflation rate increases.

He discussed the likelihood of interest rates rising and suggested that investors who want to hold bonds reduce their duration or take it to zero.

Changes in short - term versus long - term interest rates can affect various bonds in different ways, which we'll discuss below.

As I have discussed in recent blogs, TIPS bond ladders are relatively free of interest rate risk if we hold individual bonds to maturity.

This can be accomplished by investing some portion of your bond holdings in government TIPS bonds as discussed in Article 6.2, because TIPS returns are adjusted for changes in inflation and perform particularly well in situations where interest rates rise unexpectedly.

With inflation ticking higher and the employment situation improving, the Federal Reserve anticipates gradually lifting the benchmark federal funds rate in 2017 and 2018.1 Officials are also discussing plans to shrink the Fed's huge bond portfolio ($ 4.5 trillion).

As discussed in Article 6.2, the future returns for bonds are expected to be very low because of today's historically unprecedented low interest rates.

Prices of bonds can also fluctuate similar to stocks, but bond prices are more predictably correlated with changes in interest rates, as discussed in Article 6.2.

This article discusses the relationships between tax - exempt municipal bonds, bond market returns, marginal tax rates, and investment asset tax location.»

As discussed above, the key to a bond investment that helps to diversify equity investments is interest rate risk.

They further discuss bonds, interest rates, the US dollar and gold.

In my post, Statement Shock: Bonds in the Red, I discussed why bond prices drop when interest rates rise and why this shouldn't matter much to investors with a sufficient time horizon.

To discuss the fundamentals of «spread trading», one must recall the relationship of bond prices to interest rate movements.