Sentences with phrase «gone more bonds»

I feel the easy money has been made, which is why I've cut down my expensive growth stocks and gone more bonds and large cap dividend stocks.

We're in our mid-50s, so we started going more bonds about 2 years ago.

Not exact matches

But there's more going on here than poor planning and backroom arguments — something that is making even wary investors outside the corporate bond market sit up and take notice.

Now what this road and the shipping lanes in the South China Sea, et cetera will do, is they will improve productivity and as a result we will see better multiples and better opportunities in Chinese markets and we're going to see more bonds floated in markets, not just in China, but in Europe and the US as well.

But, «the U.S. and the Bank of England have gone to more extremes because they have interest rates below the Bank of Canada's, and they've also been buying bonds to lower longer term interest rates,» Shenfeld added.

It also makes the experience of going to work and bonding with co-workers more fun.

The higher bond yields go, the more pension funds will buy as they look to lock in long - term income streams to meet their liabilities.

The simplified explanation for this aberrant investing disaster was a dramatic rise in interest rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in 1981.

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And that has made it easy to forget that the bond market has been enjoying a bull market of its own — one that has been going on for more than three decades.

To be sure, there would have been more drilling companies going belly up if it had not been for the generous credit offered by bond and equity markets, and large financial institutions.

As a result, pension funds have had to go out on the risk curve, taking more risk to glean more return by investing, in part, in assets that are not as liquid as stocks or bonds.

The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet more attractive.

Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.

This leaves us roughly in the same position that we started the year, slightly overweight to spread product, i.e., investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds and emerging markets (more recently, we also went back to a slight overweight on commercial mortgage - backed securities).

«When you're creating a plan for that mix of stocks and bonds, for the newer investor, it's really powerful to see the relationship between adding more stocks — which adds to your return in the long term, but also adds to the risk — and the likelihood that you're going to see many more ups and many more downs,» says Francis.

Once you make the common sense decision about how you are going to allocate your money between stocks and bonds you can get more creative with your investments if you would like to be more hands - on with them.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.&raMore than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.&ramore attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

Not only did bonds provide some stability while stocks fell, but more importantly, they provided investors with dry powder to rebalance into stocks as they went on sale.

Bonds, however, the investor's go - to asset class for safety, have experienced two separate corrections of 10 % or more in that time when looking at long - term U.S. treasury bBonds, however, the investor's go - to asset class for safety, have experienced two separate corrections of 10 % or more in that time when looking at long - term U.S. treasury bondsbonds.

The retailer has a very decent probability of going into bankruptcy or experiencing further declines, yet the bonds are still yielding 11.4 % when they should be yielding much more given the inherent risk in the position.

Well, beyond 10 years you get more volatility than return, so I'd go with a 1 - 10 year bond ladder (or the bond fund equivalent).

A rise of 1 - 2 % isn't going to do much, and I don't think we'll rise by more than 1 - 2 % on the 10 - year bond yield anyway, so nobody needs to panic.

But there I would never invest in a single Bond I would more go for Bond ETF's as well.

«France goes green: the world's largest green bond paves the way for more governments.»

While an aggressive type portfolio will naturally fluctuate over time and has more «volatility,» this is nothing to get scared about because you are saving this money for the long term and over a 10 + year investing horizon you are going to make more money investing in stocks than in bonds.

If you feel comfortable with more risky type of investments such as options, junk bonds or crypto - currencies — by all means, go ahead.

Retail investors turned net redeemers from Emerging Markets Bond Funds going into the final week of April, and Frontier Markets Bond Funds posted their first outflow since mid-December as fears of a more rapid pace for U.S. interest rate hikes cooled appetites for this asset class.

First, TIPS funds are made up largely of longer - term bonds, and long bonds fall more than short bonds do, when rates go up.

Sometimes the market goes on a growth binge, especially when bonds and the more traditional securities do not seem to offer intriguing alternatives.

The hot money goes more to junk - bond (high - yield) funds.

Since the bonds are very safe, the return is not going to be as high but will be more stable.

To make things even more difficult, investors are increasingly buying to hold to maturity for the simple reason that if spreads are going to tighten, it is difficult to find a replacement once a bond is sold.

The only thing that seems changed is liquidity.There's much more of it, and that goes to the difference between stock and bond prices.

The rise in Canada has been a bit more muted — at about 60 - 70 basis points — says Gulati, because Canadian bonds were offering better returns to begin with and «the U.S. has more upward room to go.»

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As Peter Bernstein suggested, a more flexible and opportunistic investment strategy is going to be demanded until bond and stock valuations once again become attractive.

14.37 Some more details: if there are not enough bonds to go around for the ECB, the bank forsees «substitute purchases» of other types of assets.

And if most governments in the world have been financing their budgets with debt, the minute the debt deflation hit, that's essentially the bond market saying, «hold on now it's going to cost you a lot more if you want to continue financing your budget».

Even so, that doesn't mean mortgage rates will go up because mortgage rates are more tied to the 10 - year bond yield which has been declining due to all the risk in the markets.

While the underperformance of high yield bonds since my post The Case Against High Yield has certainly made high yield bonds more attractive (yields went from sub 6 % to north of 8 %), I still prefer the risk / return profile of a stock / bond allocation (more here).

But throughout the year, bonds kept going up while stocks moved sideways, and investors kept selling their stocks to buy more bonds.

I have my bible and more than a few verses here where there's CLEARLY more than just male bonding going on... and female bonding.

It will take more than public displays to strengthen the hobbled institution, but such gatherings do play an important role in bonding concerned individuals into a movement, especially when the powers that be seem to be loudly telling them to go away.

These bonds go deeper and demand more of us by way of solidarity than any others, even than those of family.

I am going to print this recipe and I will have my husband and I do this so it's more sort of a bonding in the kitchen.Thanks!

They were going to sign Barry Bonds and Greg Maddux, until they didn't want to spend more than $ 40 million for either.

which i do nt understand, we will have more cash than gross debt soon, unless that is the big plan to pay down all the debt / bonds in one go and start again from scratch, maybe they are planning a major extension of the emirates to make more seats that would cost a lot of cash in short term.

As every week goes by this team seems to be bonding more and more.

I hear about all these mothers who do the polar opposite and go the extra mile to bond even more with their rainbow babies, I was just wondering if there were others who were like me?