Sentences with phrase «equities over government bonds»

We prefer European equities over government bonds and credit amid a sustained, above - trend economic expansion and a steady earnings outlook.

Not exact matches

Colonial, which recently announced plans to move its headquarters to Madrid from Barcelona, where Catalonia's local government is in turmoil over its attempt to split from Spain, said the transaction was fully financed through a combination of equity, bonds and the disposal of non-core assets.

What about the argument that the equity - risk premium (the premium that investors demand over risk - free assets such as government bonds) has fallen close to zero because of greater economic stability?

In addition, sovereign wealth funds — which generally diversify their portfolios to include a small portion of alternate assets such as gold, private equity and real estate — are likely to raise their allocations following the low yield in government bonds over the last couple of years.

In short, equities should outperform government bonds and deliver reasonable returns relative to alternatives over the medium - to - long run.

We remain overweight equities over both 3 and 12 months and balance this with an underweight in cash over 3 months and an underweight in commodities and government bonds over 12 months.

But the boom in equity markets has driven down their «spread» over government bonds to the lowest level since before the 2008 — 09 financial crisis.

Fixed income has a role in portfolios and we like credit over government bonds, but we generally prefer equities over bonds in a low - return world.

Against this backdrop, we broadly prefer equities over fixed income, and selected credit over government bonds.

«Over the medium - to - long term, the total return on global equities should easily surpass [government] bonds, even factoring in very weak growth.

He simulated the performance of $ 1 invested in an uncapped large - cap equity index FIA compared to the performance of long - term government bonds over the period from 1927 through 2016, net of expenses.

But if that government bond goes to 10 %, it changes the value of this equity bond that, in effect, you're buying... when you buy an interest in... anything, you are buying something that, over time, is going to return cash to you... And those are the coupons.