Sentences with phrase «large bond exposure»

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«Market volatility should be a reminder for you to review your investments regularly and make sure you consider an investing strategy with exposure to different areas of the markets — U.S. small and large caps, international stocks, investment - grade bonds — to help match the overall risk in your portfolio to your personality and goals,» says Dowd.

The sector breakdown of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Convertibles: Cash Pay Bond Index currently has a large exposure to equity factors and sectors we are positive on, namely the momentum factor and technology, which comprise nearly half of the index (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

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Banks in the US have always been large holders of bonds, but at the moment bank holdings pale in comparison to the magnitude of bond exposure in the mutual fund complex and bonds held at the household level.

Historically over long periods of time, equity index funds vastly outperform bonds, so it's important to have a large exposure to them during most stages of your life.

This project will help researchers to develop antidotes that break the AChE - OP bond more quickly and that can also be delivered orally, which is another key to dealing with large - scale exposure to nerve poisons.

Ideally, you want to choose a combination of low - cost funds that will give you exposure to stocks of all types and styles (domestic, foreign, large, small, growth and value) as well as bond funds that track the broad investment - grade bond market (government and corporate issues in a range of maturities).

«With today's launch, knowledgeable investors now have an even larger suite of geared ETFs to help manage their exposures to high yield and investment grade corporate bonds.»

Also similar to year - end 2010, municipal bonds represented the second - largest bond type for the overall insurance industry at 14.8 % of total bond exposure.

«Market volatility should be a reminder for you to review your investments regularly and make sure you consider an investing strategy with exposure to different areas of the markets — U.S. small and large caps, international stocks, investment - grade bonds — to help match the overall risk in your portfolio to your personality and goals,» says Dowd.

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.

High - yield corporate bonds may also be used to gain modest exposure to higher - yielding maturities, though the portfolio is unlikely to hold a large percentage of high - yield bonds, especially those of longer duration.

If your stock exposure has grown too large, wait until an equity fund you own is slated to be sold and then use the proceeds of sale to add to your bond positions to get back to your original target allocation.

The Aggressive Portfolio's asset allocation is comprised of ETFs that provide exposure to a mix of large cap stocks, government and corporate bonds, and an allocation of up to 15 % of the portfolio to alternative investment strategies.

Do that, and you'll gain exposure to virtually every type of publicly traded stock in the world (large and small, growth and value, domestic and foreign, all industries and sectors) as well as the entire U.S. investment - grade taxable bond market (short - to long - term maturities, corporates, Treasuries and mortgage - backed issues).

One way to do that is by assembling a group of individual funds or ETFs each of which provides exposure to a specific asset class — large - company stocks, small shares, government and corporate bonds, etc..

Interest rate risk is mitigated by avoiding a large exposure to long - term bonds, whose value is most sensitive to changes in interest rates.

I would be much more leery of holding an interest in BAC if it were a European bank with a large exposure to Greek bonds.