Now, when I was a bond manager, because my client had a large amount of
long noncallable liabilities, I bought less liquid debts when I received adequate compensation to do so, but not more than my client's balance sheet could tolerate.
If so, you buy
the longest noncallable bonds, add keep buying every dip, until rates reach your expected nadir.
Not exact matches
What I am arguing is that choosing the narrow area of the bond market that did best over the last 30 years — highest quality
noncallable long debt, is not a fair comparison against the stock market as a whole.
Like equity, which is a
long duration asset, these bonds in the index are
noncallable with 25 - 30 years of maturity.
Illiquid assets must be funded by equity or
long - term
noncallable debt, where the term is as
long as the asset's horizon.
If, during this period, a high - grade,
noncallable,
long - term bond with a 12 percent coupon had existed, it would have sold far above par.
Back when dividend yields were higher, and corporate bond yields were higher, both absolute and relative yield managers flourished as interest rates and dividend yields crested in the early 1980s, and the stocks paying high dividends got bid up as interest rates fell, much as the same thing happened to zero coupon and other
noncallable long duration bonds.
CMBS, because it is
noncallable, makes a lot more sense for
longer - dated liabilities.