Corporate yields are an average of two percentage points higher than
government bonds because there's a higher risk of default.
SWENSEN: If you looked at — if you looked at Yale's bond portfolio 20 years ago, probably a market portfolio, market duration, it was
all government bonds because I believed that there are better ways for Yale to take equity risk than to own corporate bonds.
even say that Japanese investors have gained an appetite for European
government bonds because European bonds are supposedly seen as attractive alternatives to U.S.
government bonds because of stronger growth in the Euro Zone.
And also according to these market analysts, Japanese investors are the main buyers of European
government bonds because Japanese investors supposedly see European bonds as a more attractive alternative to U.S. government bonds.
Corporate bonds are considered to be riskier than
government bonds because the investment grade rating of corporate bonds varies depending on the debt issuance and revenue of the company.
It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in
government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.
For example, some people believe that there is inherent risk to investing in US
Government Bonds because of their high sovereign debt load and other macroeconomic factors.
David Lloyd at Newport Partners advises against holding
government bonds because interest rates are so low.
It is important to consider trends in US
government bonds because they normally suggest what is to come in the biggest part of the bond world.
Not exact matches
The BOJ currently makes the distinction
because buying long - term
government bonds for monetary easing could bind its hands on policy for longer than it wants and make a future exit from ultra-loose easing difficult.
Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of
government bonds it buys to three years
because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.
Because the central bank's purchases represent increased demand, it tends to push up
government bond prices, thus lowering yields.
The Hungarian
government is paying through the nose to borrow — when it can at all —
because its
bonds are trash.
Allan Small, a senior investment adviser at DMW Securities, has avoided
government bonds for the past few years
because they pay so little.
This is
because the ECB faces a couple of restrictions when buying
government bonds.
Government bonds could help reduce default risk, but
because of the length of maturity required to earn any meaningful yield, they do little to reduce duration risk - i.e. the overall sensitivity of a portfolio to interest rate rises.
Taxable municipal
bonds The interest on some municipal
bonds is taxable
because the federal
government will not subsidize the financing of activities that do not provide significant benefit to the public.
If you purchase directly from the
government, you must place bids for the
bonds you want — these are noncompetitive bids
because you know and agree to the price you will be paying.
Money, equities,
bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer,
because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and
governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.
And the US
government is going to create about $ 2 trillion of new Treasury
Bonds and exchange these perfectly good Treasury Bonds that are as good as cash (because you know the government can always print the money), they'll exchange these bonds — cash for t
Bonds and exchange these perfectly good Treasury
Bonds that are as good as cash (because you know the government can always print the money), they'll exchange these bonds — cash for t
Bonds that are as good as cash (
because you know the
government can always print the money), they'll exchange these
bonds — cash for t
bonds — cash for trash.
This differs from quantitative easing as practiced thus far
because the central bank acquires no asset from the
government that it could resell to the public in the future, unlike the normal Treasury
bonds currently held by the Fed.
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?
Treasury
bonds (T - Bonds) are issued by the U.S. Treasury and are viewed as the safest investments in the world because they're backed by the U.S. govern
bonds (T -
Bonds) are issued by the U.S. Treasury and are viewed as the safest investments in the world because they're backed by the U.S. govern
Bonds) are issued by the U.S. Treasury and are viewed as the safest investments in the world
because they're backed by the U.S.
government.
We value investors argue that fixed - income investments are risky and artificially overpriced
because of
government intervention in the
bond market.
Most municipal
bonds are considered quite safe and generate decent returns, but they vary considerably
because not all cities and local
governments are created equal.
However,
because the agency
bond issuers are guaranteed by the federal
government these
bonds are generally considered safer than even the safest corporate
bonds.
The Fed has been in the news lately
because it plans to reduce its holdings of longer - term
government bonds.
The central bank may also look for a way to avoid buying Greek
bonds,
because of uncertainty whether a new
government in the country will honor all the its obligations.
US Treasury
Bonds are considered extremely low risk
because they are backed up by the US Federal
Government.
And therefore, those are the sorts of concerns, clearly as
bond investors we have to have in the back of our mind
because while we're still very much supported by central banks continuing to buy
government bonds, the Fed [US Federal Reserve] has announced that it is beginning now to not only end the taper, that ended some time ago, they are potentially selling
bonds back into the market.
I don't want to mislead in this article
because the investments I will be discussing are a bit riskier than FDIC insured certificates of deposit or
government bonds.
Because of its special relationship with the United States, US investors got favorable tax treatment when buying Puerto Rican
government bonds.
Analysts at Moody's Investors Service Middle East in Dubai say the issuance is credit positive for Saudi banks
because their profitability will benefit from the transfer of their large, low - yielding reserves of cash and placements from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority and other banks to higher - yielding
government Islamic
bonds.
That's in large part
because dividend yields have been considerably higher than
government bonds in most developed markets including Canada over this time.
QE3 is somewhat different
because Friedman advised the Bank of Japan to buy unlimited amounts of
government bonds until growth returned.
Government bonds of economically stable countries like the United States are rather popular financial investment to safely «park» unused capital
because they are relatively safe and provide a guaranteed interest rate.
HSBC declined to participate
because its larger customer deposits means it would lose money by taking part in credit easing, which involves a
government guarantee on
bonds issued on wholesale funding markets.
The two young men had listened to Mario's speech as it began to come together, «and when you work in
government... you go through such highs and lows together that you really
bond or you wind up very distant from the other person,
because you really get to see a person's character,» Andrew Cuomo said.
It did not have to do so
because the
bonds were denominated in Russian Ruble and the
government could simply have printed money to pay the
bonds.
These types of
bonds significantly reduced the County's cost of borrowing
because of the high interest subsidies provided by the federal
government.
«I am not saying this money should be given to states but be in form of
bond depending on how Federal
Government wants to design it
because it is understood that if such huge money which may run into N2 to N3trillion get into states, it may cause inflation but to avoid such, a flexible term and measure will be applied by the Federal
Government.
The Tories were yesterday keen to highlight comments from Pimco, a
bond investor that employs Ed Balls's brother, Andrew, saying it was going to going to cut back on buying UK gilts
because of concerns about the level of
government borrowing.
Federal and state
governments could either support city programs or directly finance the upgrades; their
bonds would be more efficient
because they would cover larger populations.
Although
government bonds are supposed to be guaranteed
because they can use tax revenue to pay out the money, there have been instances of countries like Russia defaulting on its domestic currency debt.
Partly
because the starting point is very low, with bund yields (German
government bonds) still less than 1 %.
That's in large part
because dividend yields have been considerably higher than
government bonds in most developed markets including Canada over this time.
The third approach is to ignore
government bond rates in the local currency entirely, either
because you believe that they are not liquid enough to yield reliable numbers or
because they contain default risk.
Namely,
bond coupon payments are determined by market interest rates, the type of issuing entity (
government bonds pay lower coupons than corporate
bonds because of lower default risk), the creditworthiness of the issuing entity (AAA companies pay lower coupons than CCC companies), and the maturity of the
bond, which we will talk about next.
They're generally safe
because the issuer has the ability to raise money through taxes — but they're not as safe as U.S.
government bonds, and it is possible for the issuer to default.
Because these
bonds aren't quite as safe as
government bonds, their yields are generally higher.