Sentences with phrase «few yielding assets»

The environment of continuing monetary accommodation — necessary to support activity and boost inflation — may lead to a continued search for yield where there is too much money chasing too few yielding assets, pushing investors beyond their traditional habitats.

Not exact matches

In a day and age in which regular asset classes that commercial portfolio managers normally consider have become overwhelmingly bloated in price as a consequence of the persistent and extended cheap money policy of global Central Bankers, an investment strategy of concentration in few select still undervalued assets versus diversification is likely the only strategy that will work moving forward in returning significant yields.

But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.

The downgrade comes after a rally in risk assets over the past few weeks driven by the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union on June 23 and the search for yield amid expectations of easing.

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and unwinding its balance sheet, European Central Bank officials are tapering QE and the Bank of Japan is buying fewer assets through its «yield curve control» programme.

The case for high yield rests largely on the fact that it remains one of the few asset classes left that can offer a greater than 5 % yield.

Indirectly, I learned this after several years of sitting next to the high yield manager at Dwight Asset Management (a very good firm that few know about).

Very few fixed income assets are cheap, even if they should be, and investors» appetite for yield continues to drive liquidity premiums lower.

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in bond yields would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and a few percent of assets in utility shares.

Among various types of income ETPs listed in the U.S., high - dividend equity ETPs recorded the highest five - year absolute and risk - adjusted return as of Aug. 31, 2017, although they had lower yield than a few other income asset classes.

The error that the «earlies» made, and I knew quite a few of them, was not recognizing how much debt could be crammed into the financial economy in order to juice returns on fixed income assets with yields lower than likely default losses.

Purpose built student accommodation is the UK's highest yielding property asset and has seen total investment in the sector consistently increase over the past few years.