Sentences with phrase «junk bond managers»

They trade as if there is no conversion option, and some clever junk bond managers buy them, knowing that if a few of them have stocks that rally significantly, they will make enough extra money to aid their performance.

We've even uncovered some rockstar junk bond managers.

With junk bond managers looking to diversify their portfolios, some may be in the market for a large tech deal.

Some of the bonds that come due in the next 12 months were trading at prices that offered hearty investors a 25 % to 35 % yield, one junk bond manager told us.

Some of the bonds that come due in the next 12 months were trading at prices that offered hearty investors a 25 % to 35 % yield, one junk bond manager told -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

Pension fund managers played a large role in the junk bonding of industry in the 1980s.

But the real emergency affects mainly debtors — mortgage debtors with negative equity, companies loaded down with junk bonds (many of them taken to buy back corporate stock and increase dividend payouts to increase the price at which managers can cash out).

The Obama Administration's Wall Street managers have kept the debt overhead in place — toxic mortgage debt, junk bonds, and most seriously, the novel web of collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (almost monopolized by A.I.G.) and kindred financial derivatives of a basically mathematical character that have developed in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Although there have been many ups and downs in this extended rate cycle, junk bonds and the portfolio managers who buy and sell them have never experienced a rise from these yield levels before.

@Jerry, I agree that today the main risk in bonds is duration risk (AKA interest - rate risk)-- last weekend's Barron's has an interview with the UBS Wealth Management top managers pointing out this means convincing investors to switch from Treasuries and investment - grade corporates to well - selected junk (HYLD is a jewel there — DO N'T go for index funds in bonds, very differently from ones in stocks they make no sense... where's the sense in wanting to lend more to companies which are more indebted?!

Personally, I don't think Gundlach makes his money that way for his funds, but in case he does, how should a good bond manager view junk bonds?

Same for junk bonds among broad mandate bond managers.

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Attracted by higher yields than on safer bonds, and with lower valuations than on stocks currently, portfolio managers and individuals alike have poured money into junk bonds this year.

Because managers Dan Fuss and Kathleen Gaffney typically own a large helping of high - yield, or junk, bonds (those rated double - B or lower), as well as bonds from developing nations, the fund took a hit when investors bailed out of anything smacking of risk during the financial crisis and rushed into Treasuries.

• The world's biggest money manager, BlackRock, opened the first ETFs that will invest in junk bonds from Europe to Asia.

Clients who use junk bond allocations are using other managers.