Sentences with phrase «from bond fund managers»

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A spike in bond yields and a clear change of direction from central banks means there isn't a lot of value in global bond markets, a fund manager told CNBC on Tuesday.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

Overall North American equity recommendations were downgraded to 67.8 percent from 69.1 percent, the lowest since December 2014, and fund managers» preference for North American bonds were cut to 70.0 percent, the lowest in seven months.

If I am right that equity fund managers are fully allocated to stocks now, the only way we can get excess gains in the stock market is if new liquidity is created by bank lending, or liquidity is transferred from the bond market to equities.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

Hence the fund managers adopting Duration strategy invest in Long Term bonds so that they can benefit from any fall in interest rates.

Investors and fund managers search for yield, extend maturities, reach for lower credit quality and shift assets from short term floating rate money market funds to bonds, bond funds and similar investments.

Analysts, mutual - fund managers and other forecasters are telling investors to expect lower returns from stocks and bonds in 2016 than in past years.

The tally is partial because we tend to exclude vanilla bond funds and index funds from the tally, since the managers in such funds make relatively modest differences in the funds» performance.

@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?!

As central banks move away from ultra-loose monetary policy, and the global economic expansion matures, bond fund managers will need to ensure their portfolios draw on a truly diverse range of sources of return and carefully consider portfolio risk if they are to generate yield in the current market environment.

The theme picking part generally results from the manager's decision to focus on a particular sector or industry of the economy, a world region or country, a class of securities (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.), and similar factors that can largely explain the performance of the analyzed fund or portfolio.

From a recent interview with Bill Gross, manager of the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond fund: Years of easing by central banks mean that interest rates in most of the developed world will fluctuate narrowly.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

The only problem now is that when all the big fund managers will decide to withdraw from the bond market then we shall see a steeper jump as Government of Canada is not likely to intervene.

This study investigates the unique aspects of closed - end bond funds using characteristics and performance data mostly from 1996 - 2006 for two samples: (1) 54 pairs of closed - end and open - end bond funds matched for manager, fund family and type of bond fund; and, (2) 332 closed - end bond funds.

Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund until he unexpectedly left Pimco on Sept. 26, is running the Unconstrained Fund out of a rented office a five - minute walk from Pimco's headquarters in Newport Beach, Califorfund until he unexpectedly left Pimco on Sept. 26, is running the Unconstrained Fund out of a rented office a five - minute walk from Pimco's headquarters in Newport Beach, CaliforFund out of a rented office a five - minute walk from Pimco's headquarters in Newport Beach, California.

Because managers Dan Fuss and Kathleen Gaffney typically own a large helping of high - yield, or junk, bonds (those rated double - B or lower), as well as bonds from developing nations, the fund took a hit when investors bailed out of anything smacking of risk during the financial crisis and rushed into Treasuries.

Mutual funds: These popular investments pool money from different investors, which is then put in a single portfolio of stocks and bonds which is overseen by an investment manager.

To begin with, there is no value added from active management, because all the fund managers have only a handful of bond issues to choose from.

Instead, we're interested in mutual funds (a collection of stocks and bonds from a variety of companies, selected by a fund manager) and index funds (the entire market, in its category).

Racicot says the best funds are the ones where the manager is free to move from government to corporate bonds.

PIMCO Total Return Fund leverages the firm's time - tested investment process, vast global resources and expertise of three industry - renowned portfolio managers to actively seek diverse sources of returns from higher - quality, intermediate term bonds.