Sentences with phrase «longer investment grade corporate»

The rest is invested in short and longer investment grade corporate, and a small wager on the Swiss Franc appreciating.

Not exact matches

You can invest in bond funds by stated maturities (short - term, intermediate - term, long - term), credit quality (treasuries, junk bonds, investment grade corporate bonds) or pretty much any other way you can separate bond investments.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

Bloomberg Barclays Long U.S. Government Credit Index includes all publicly issued U.S. government and corporate securities that have a remaining maturity of 10 or more years, are rated investment grade, and have $ 250 million or more of outstanding face value.

The rotation from long to short term is much more pronounced when it comes to funds dedicated to investment grade corporate debt.

The Bloomberg Barclays Long - Term Government / Corporate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that includes fixed - rate debt issues rated investment grade or higher by Moody's Investors Services, Standard & Poor's Corporation, or Fitch Investor's Service, in order.

In particular, we are still positive on long - end investment - grade corporates.

None of the long term problems that the market faces have changed, but neither has the relatively low yields of investment grade corporate debt.

MYGA interest rates will vary over time as market conditions change, being driven most notably by longer - term Treasury and investment grade corporate bond yields.

Investment - grade corporate debt offers higher yields than long - end Treasuries at less than half the volatility, our analysis shows.

These three ETFs carry low risks but potentially high rewards Simon Maierhofer on the contrarian nature of consumer staples, long - dated Treasuries and investment - grade corporate bondsSimon Maierhofer on the contrarian nature of consumer staples, long - dated Treasuries and investment - grade corporate bonds.

Rather than pursue cross-over corporates or high - yield or even long - term investment grade corporates, we have stayed near the middle of the curve with funds like: (1) SPDR Nuveen Muni (TFI), (2) Vanguard Total Bond (BND), (3) iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury (IEF) and (4) iShares 3 - 7 Year Treasury (IEI).

If you are adept with spreadsheets, you can compute the expected return on the annuity and compare with, say, a long term investment grade corporate bond yield.

The income offered on DIAs will vary over time as market conditions change, being driven most notably by longer - term Treasury and investment grade corporate bond yields.

There are many investments to choose from — intermediate and long - term Treasuries, or investment grade and longer maturity corporate bonds — to help meet both goals.

These days, there is an ETF for all the main types of bonds — government, corporate, municipal, short - / medium - / long duration, investment grade, non-investment grade, emerging markets, developed markets, interest rate hedged, convertible, inflation - linked, variable rate, and mostly everything in between.

ProShares Investment Grade — Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG) tracks the Citi Corporate Investment Grade (Treasury Rate - Hedged) Index, which offers a diversified portfolio of investment grade long - term bonds with a built - in interest rInvestment Grade — Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG) tracks the Citi Corporate Investment Grade (Treasury Rate - Hedged) Index, which offers a diversified portfolio of investment grade long - term bonds with a built - in interest rInvestment Grade (Treasury Rate - Hedged) Index, which offers a diversified portfolio of investment grade long - term bonds with a built - in interest rinvestment grade long - term bonds with a built - in interest rate hedge.

Credit - sensitive categories — such as investment - grade corporate and high - yield bonds — were aided by the backdrop of faster growth and rising earnings, and long - term U.S. Treasuries posted gains amid continued low inflation.

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).

«So to postpone the impact of any increase as long as possible, we've shifted some of our long bond exposure to U.S. investment - grade corporate bonds offering decent yields.»

The fund's holdings will primarily consist of shares of the investment - grade Vanguard Short - Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCSH), the Vanguard Intermediate - Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCIT) and the Vanguard Long - Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCLT).

The index is comprised of (a) long positions in USD - denominated investment grade corporate bonds issued by both U.S. and foreign domiciled companies; and (b) short positions in U.S. Treasury notes or bonds («Treasury Securities») of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration to the investment grade bonds.