Sentences with phrase «grade bond positions»

Not exact matches

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).

That gives it substantially more credit risk than investment - grade bond funds, but the high - yield short positions moderate some of that risk.

Aside from Treasurys and Treasury futures (including possible short positions), FIBR has exposure to MBS, short - and intermediate - term investment - grade bonds, and high - yield securities.

IGHG and HYHG seek to hedge investment grade bonds and high yield bonds, respectively, against the negative impact of rising rates by taking short positions in Treasury futures.

Some of those risks include general economic risk, geopolitical risk, commodity - price volatility, counterparty and settlement risk, currency risk, derivatives risk, emerging markets risk, foreign securities risk, high - yield bond exposure, noninvestment - grade bond exposure commonly known as «junk bonds,» index investing risk, industry concentration risk, leveraging risk, market risk, prepayment risk, liquidity risk, real estate investment risk, sector risk, short sales risk, temporary defensive positions, and large cash positions.

IGHG seeks to hedge investment grade bonds against the negative impact of rising rates by taking short positions in Treasury futures.

As a policy holder I imagine that you have a pretty solid position in the capital structure of these companies, but not to make things overly complicated: what happens if we use the yield on investment grade US corporate bonds as a discount rate?

The index is comprised of (a) long positions in USD - denominated investment grade corporate bonds issued by both U.S. and foreign domiciled companies; and (b) short positions in U.S. Treasury notes or bonds («Treasury Securities») of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration to the investment grade bonds.

The short positions are not intended to mitigate other factors influencing the price of investment grade bonds, such as credit risk, which may have a greater impact than rising or falling interest rates.

You can generate this reliable cash flow through a combination of: interest on deposit - insured GICs and investment - grade bonds; reliable stock dividends; a sizeable cash and short - term fixed - income position; a bond or GIC ladder; and, purchasing annuities.