iShares iBoxx High Yield (HYG)-- «A lot of the time, especially when you get into something
like high yield bonds, you're better off sticking to mutual funds,» Jason said.
However, the yields of Treasuries are paltry while credit instruments
like high yield bonds exhibit equity - like risk, albeit with potentially higher yields.
Preferreds have little to no exposure to energy and may help investors diversify their risk away from energy sensitive assets
like high yield bonds.
However, the yields of Treasuries are paltry while credit instruments
like high yield bonds exhibit equity - like risk, albeit with potentially higher yields.
Not exact matches
Bond investors
like mutual funds and pension funds hope to buy securities with comparatively
higher yields than other asset - backed debt that could also provide diversification benefits.
While credit risk might seem
like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain,
high -
yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade
bonds.
In a zero - interest rate world (Figure 7), these provide
yields that are much
higher than those found in more conventional investments
like U.S. Treasury
bonds or money market accounts.
Like most sectors of the fixed - income market, municipal
bonds struggled in the first quarter as
yields climbed
higher.
With Group of Seven (G7) sovereign
bond yields at historically low levels, some income - seeking investors have turned to
higher - volatility securities
like dividend - paying stocks in an attempt to capture additional income.
However, note that some fixed income investments,
like high -
yield bonds and certain international
bonds, can offer much
higher yields, albeit with more risk.
Another statistic courtesy of Mike Goldstein is that utility stocks, a
high -
yield group I call the most
bond -
like of all stocks, today sell for almost the same P / E multiple as the S&P 500.
High yield bonds rank low enough in seniority that they behave a lot
like equity.
Note: HYG the $ 20bln
high yield ETF
yields 5.13 % in comparison, hence you might need to buy an out of favor sector
like bricks and mortar retail, otherwise non-rated is likely where you will find > 7 % in the US domestic
bond market.
Those who are purchasing
bonds like dropping
bond prices because it means that they can get
higher yields.
Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while
high yielding dividends, often considered «
bond -
like proxies,» have tended to be more vulnerable (due to their
high debt levels) and have historically followed
bond performance when rates rise.
But I am concerned that late - cycle entrants into risk assets
like stocks and
high -
yield bonds are taking a leap of faith at a time when there is less room for markets to move up and growing risks of them falling back.
Despite the 10 - year US Treasury
bond only
yielding roughly 2.2 %, that's still much
higher than 10 - year Treasury
bonds from countries
like France (0.6 %), Germany (0.3 %), Japan (0.0 %), and Switzerland, where you actually lose money lending -LRB--0.2 %).
In this privately printed income blueprint, I show you why
high - tech income pools
like these are giving investors a real alternative to the low -
yield bonds and sputtering REITs that many people have looked to in the past.
Currently, BBB - rated
bonds are equal to 45 % of the entire outstanding
high -
yield market, which has increased from 30 % a decade ago.3 Since BBB is the lowest investment - grade
bond rating, the risk is that many poor credits will fall,
like angels, from the investment - grade into the
high -
yield universe.
May also invest in other
high -
yield assets,
like bank loans, preferred securities, and convertible
bonds.
A bullish bias is based largely on
Bond yields bottoming out, NOT TOPPING, along with Advance / Decline being back at new all - time
highs while various former underperforming laggard sectors
like Healthcare, have begun to outperform.
Preliminary meetings with investors have pitched the IPO as a
bond -
like security, paying a
higher - than - average dividend
yield.
Eventually, they'll have to turn to assets
like stocks, commodities and
higher -
yielding bond products that carry greater return — and greater risk.
Depending on where the stock market and
bond market are at the time, I'd
like to deploy $ 300,000 of the proceeds in low risk investments that have a
high chance of producing a 4 % gross
yield.
As risky assets
like equities and
high yield bonds have come under pressure, gold has rallied roughly 4 % (source: Bloomberg).
Like equity, the value of a
high yield bond is tied to the fate of its corporate issuer.
Sure, you can move it into riskier investments
like bonds or even
high yield bonds to try to juice your returns but a move -LSB-...]
Other
bond markets,
like the
high yield corporate and senior loan markets often have
high concentrations of debt maturing in specific years in the near future — often referred to as a «maturity cliff».
Income - seeking investors may need to consider exploring riskier areas of the
bond market
like high yield and EM
bonds.
Those who are purchasing
bonds like dropping
bond prices because it means that they can get
higher yields.
It sounds
like possible replacement for
high risk /
yield bonds.
You also get to use tax - inefficient investments
like REITs and
high -
yield bonds without having to worry about the tax implications.
Here's my take: risk arb is
like being a
high yield bond manager.
Many
bond managers
like to own RMBS for its
high credit quality, liquidity, and attractive
yields, but the problem is this: when interest rates move, the RMBS does what you don't want to see happen.
Because they are more equity -
like,
high yield bonds have intrinsic risk that is independent of the level of
yields in
high quality
bonds, the leading example of which are Treasury
bonds.
Starting in 2008 and into 2009,
high yield corporate
bonds (otherwise known as junk
bonds) saw huge drops in price under the premise the America was going to see a massive wave of corporate defaults, the
likes of which we hadn't seen since the Great Depression.
If rates rise and the economy slows, the areas of the
bond market that have done well lately,
like higher -
yielding bonds, could come under pressure.
As of the first quarter of 2012, Turkey had a public debt balance equal to 43 % of annual GDP, making it one of the better financed governments in all of Europe (see how the fiscal strength of many emerging markets
like Turkey in
High Yield International
Bond ETFs can deliver strong returns with low correlation).
Looking both within and outside of the benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across traditional investment - grade and
high -
yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes
like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.
Higher rates of inflation and rising levels of correlations between the changes in
bond yields and stock
yields don't sound
like a good combination, and it turns out that they're not.
Although most investors diversified beyond this model and incorporated small caps, foreign stocks,
high yield bonds, and perhaps something more exotic
like REITs or commodities, a simple mix of 60 % S&P 500 and 40 % Barclays U.S. Aggregate
Bond is often the shorthand definition of a balanced portfolio.
BTW — I heard James Grant speak last week, and he is bearish on money and bullish on
high yielding corporate
bonds, but I du n no — that looks
like threading a needle.
However, the interest rate isn't necessarily the same thing as some
bonds may have
higher yields do to the potential for defaults
like junk
bonds for example.
High -
yield corporate
bonds have produced equity -
like returns with less risk.»
Like Preferreds, the difference in
yield between the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index is 2.97 % (5.87 % vs 2.90 %), up from a 1.97 % back at the end of
yield between the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate
Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued
High Yield Corporate Bond Index is 2.97 % (5.87 % vs 2.90 %), up from a 1.97 % back at the end of
Yield Corporate
Bond Index is 2.97 % (5.87 % vs 2.90 %), up from a 1.97 % back at the end of June.
As
higher yields become available in safer vehicles
like government
bonds, CDs (although you have protection with Flex CDs), money markets, etc., and interest rates are perceived to continue upward, cash leaves
high yield investments, driving the
yields higher but sending the share price lower.
AAA
bonds carry lower
yields than junk
bonds much
like the interest you get when lending to people with
higher or lower credit ratings.
You could choose
high -
yielding Canadian stocks
like the banks or BCE or just use 2 - year GICs or a short - term
bond ETF like the Vanguard Canadian Short - Term Bond ETF (VSB / T
bond ETF
like the Vanguard Canadian Short - Term
Bond ETF (VSB / T
Bond ETF (VSB / TSX).
Although there has been a variety of writers and talkers
like myself who have talked about «canaries in the coal mines» —
high yield bonds, small caps, commodities, foreign / emerging stocks — the discussions are largely dismissed when U.S. large - caps turn upward.
Investment - grade corporate
bonds have historically been a complement to risk assets
like stocks and
high yield bonds.