Sentences with phrase «grade debt markets»

The fact is if you look at the largest fund flows on the retail side tend to be in obviously the large public equity markets or investment - grade debt markets.

Not exact matches

With other big acquisition funding still in the pipeline, it was crucial for banks to set a positive tone for investment - grade debt and lure buyers back into a struggling market.

Amazon has been an infrequent issuer in the investment - grade bond market, with only $ 7.8 billion of debt outstanding as of June 30.

And to Sonders, financing conditions for buybacks through investment - grade debt will likely last long enough for markets to find other sources of demand.

The high - grade bond market is springing back to life as corporations race to issue new debt and get out in front of a possible Fed interest rate hike.

Our team of credit professionals deliver sales and trading capabilities across a wide range of fixed income asset classes including high yield, distressed and investment grade bonds, convertible bonds, public and private corporate securities, leveraged loans and emerging market debt.

The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a market value — weighted index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with maturities of one year or more.

The iShares Intermediate Credit Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated investment grade corporate, sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency debt with maturities between 1 - 10 years.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including leveraged loans, generally offer higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

Represents the corporate and government - related sectors of Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index (which provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade debt.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

We remain overweight U.S credit for its income potential, but prefer investment grade debt given elevated credit market valuations.

Investment grade and emerging market debt spreads are right in line with the historical trend line since 2006.

Emerging markets corporate debt is a maturing asset class of which around 60 % is rated investment grade.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

To manage the risk exposure, the Company invests cash, cash equivalents and short - term investments in a variety of fixed income securities, including short - term interest - bearing obligations, including government and investment - grade debt securities and money market funds.

The continent has struggled to develop high - yield debt markets for growth companies below investment grade, and what it did achieve is collapsing in 2016.

Although the largesse is restricted to blue - chip eurozone companies such as food producer Danone or telecoms giant Telefónica, ECB - injected liquidity has spilled into the rest of the market, paring average interest rates on investment - grade corporate debt by some 30 basis points to an even 1 %, Deloitte estimates.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

BofA Merrill US High Yield Index: Tracks the performance of U.S. dollar denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market.

Anyone who doesn't recognize that the Federal Reserve has done the same thing again — this time focused on the U.S. equity market and the market for low - grade junk and covenant - lite debt — is not paying attention to historically reliable data.

Many forces have collided to create this somewhat unusual relationship between commodities, emerging market debt, speculative grade bonds and stocks.

Ford Motor was among the first investment - grade companies to issue in the US debt markets this year, following the fiscal deal in Washington.

More transparency in the market rates for the debt of non-investment grade companies means more accurate borrowing costs for our models.

The European Central Bank on Thursday delivered basically what the market expected for QE: 60 billion euros of purchases per month directed at investment - grade - rated government and agency debt and with a total size, considering the contemplated end date by September 2016, of around one trillion euros.

We remain overweight U.S credit for its income potential, but prefer investment grade debt given elevated credit market valuations.

Investment grade and emerging market debt spreads are right in line with the historical trend line since 2006.

The Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Index is an unmanaged index considered representative of fixed rate, non-investment grade debt of companies in the US, developed markets and emerg ¬ ing markets.

Investment grade corporate bonds and emerging market debt have benefited from this trend for most of 2016.

They have shown interest in funds that potentially provide some income or protection from inflation, and investment grade credit, emerging market debt and TIPS benefited from that.

The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate Index is a market - weighted index of investment - grade corporate fixed - rate debt issues with maturities of one year or more.

The Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High - Yield Bond Index is an unmanaged broad - based market - value - weighted index that tracks the total return performance of non-investment grade, fixed - rate, publicly placed, dollar denominated and nonconvertible debt registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Many forces have collided to create this somewhat unusual relationship between commodities, emerging market debt, speculative grade bonds and stocks.

The drugmaker's bonds were cut to junk from investment grade by Moody's after its US$ 41 - billion buyout of Allergan Plc's generics business in 2016 left the company with a debt load that outweighed its value in the stock market.

Teva Pharmaceutical's bonds were cut to junk from investment grade by Moody's after its US$ 41 - billion buyout of Allergan's generics business in 2016 left the company with a debt load that outweighed its value in the stock market.

None of the long term problems that the market faces have changed, but neither has the relatively low yields of investment grade corporate debt.

The index will rank U.S. Treasuries, U.S. investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. investment grade mortgage backed securities, U.S. high yield debt and U.S. dollar denominated debt of emerging market issuer according to their momentum / trend scores.

Money market securities are the safest investments available, with credit ratings that surpass almost all other investment grade debt instruments.

After the bull market kicked off six years ago, as investors searched for yield amid low interest rates, they increasingly turned toward fixed income credit sectors, such as high yield, investment grade and emerging market debt.

With investment grade rates barely keeping pace with inflation, investors started «chasing yield» wherever it might be found... high yield bonds, emerging market debt, world bond funds, bank loan funds, «non-traditional» and «multi-sector» bonds funds, et cetera.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities including leveraged loans generally offer higher yields compared to investment grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

These funds invest across a diverse range of fixed income sectors, including high yield securities, U.S. Government and investment - grade securities, emerging market securities and foreign developed market debt.

The strategy can also invest in global governments, government agencies, supranational issuers, below investment grade and emerging market corporate debt.

We can invest in just about any part of the global bond market but most of it is in credit so we subdivide the market into corporate credit and below investment grade corporate credit, emerging market debt.

The index is designed to track the performance of euro - and British pound sterling - denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the eurobond, sterling domestic or euro domestic markets by issuers around the world.

Since 90 % of the index is made up of investment - grade debt from blue - chip companies, it can be viewed as a proxy for the U.S. investment - grade bond market.

The Capital Markets Group's Portfolio Managers average more than 15 years of relevant experience investing in below - investment grade debt.

The BofA Merrill Lynch Index tracks the performance of U.S. dollar - denominated investment grade government and corporate public debt issued in the U.S. domestic bond market with at least 1 year and less than 10 years remaining maturity, including U.S. treasury, U.S. agency, foreign government, supranational and corporate securities.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including leveraged loans, generally offer higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

Logan Circle's core fixed income products cover the breadth of the maturity and risk spectrums, including short, intermediate and long duration, core / core plus, investment grade credit, high yield and emerging market debt.