Sentences with phrase «hurts bond returns»

Inflation hurts bond returns because your fixed interest payments aren't worth as much going forward.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, bond returns have been hurt by rising interest rates.

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Nice investigation, and I think it matches common wisdon: that a diversified portfolio including bonds doesn't hurt returns that much, but reduces volatility (some equate with risk) quite a bit.

This hurts young investors (every 10 % in bonds reduces the portfolio's expected rate of return by 0.5 %).

Rising rates will hurt certainly bond returns, but the talk of bonds getting «killed» is probably overstated.

Bottomline: A small allocation to bonds may hurt returns somewhat but the benefits in the form of reduction in volatility of the overall portfolio makes it worthwhile for most investors.

Pimco Total Return Fund suffered its biggest decline in almost two decades in 2013, hurt by similar positions in shorter - term debt and inflation - linked bonds.

Meanwhile, foreign - issued U.S. dollar bonds, as measured by the S&P U.S. Foreign Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, returned 0.28 % in February, and since it accounts for 25 % of the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, the drag down effect for February hurt the overall return.