Your attorney can present reasons why you should be eligible for release and arguments for
a lower bond amount.
Not exact matches
«Apple of course has huge
amounts of cash, but... the cost of borrowing now is so unbelievably
low that issuing long - term
bonds... is actually a very smart thing,» Schwarzman said on CNBC.
A carry trade is typically based on borrowing in a
low - interest rate currency and converting the borrowed
amount into another currency, with proceeds placed on deposit in the second currency if it offers a higher rate of interest or deploying proceeds into assets — such as stocks, commodities,
bonds, or real estate — that are denominated in the second currency.
the percentage of return an investor receives based on the
amount invested or on the current market value of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate; yield stated is the yield to worst — the yield if the worst possible
bond repayment takes place, reflecting the
lower of the yield to maturity or the yield to call based on the previous close
To receive the full benefit of a
bond ladder, one needs not only to stay the course for a number of years (so that
lower yield and higher yield purchases benefit from cost averaging), but also with a relatively stable
amount of capital.
If you can't stomach the risk of the higher potential losses in stocks,
lower the
amount you have in stocks and increase your allocation to
bonds.
The number of
bonds the investment team will select for your account may be higher or
lower than 25 - 50 based on the
amount invested.
Originally scheduled for this week, the
bond sale will be for a
lower amount, $ 40 million as...
When you buy, you do so with the expectation of getting paid back, with interest, in a certain
amount of time — criteria that render
bonds a
low - risk, if boring investment.
Highly rated companies that are financially strong and have massive
amounts of cash on their balance sheets — think Microsoft, Exxon, etc. — can typically offer
bonds with
lower yields since investors are confident that the companies won't default (i.e., miss interest or principal payments).
This is a market - based estimate of the
amount of fear in the
bond market Bass - rated
bonds are the
lowest quality
bonds that are considered investment - grade, rather than high - yield.
The
amount of extra yield over Treasuries provided by high yield
bonds recently was 3.22 %, which is the
lowest it has been in 10 years and makes some investors cautious.
Then I would structure your investments to throw off a decent
amount of divends and also a few years of living expenses in
low risk investments like CDs or short term
bonds.
The
bond issue
lowered medium - term refinancing risks by reducing the
amounts Cyprus needs to repay in 2019 and 2020.
decade - long
low level and volatility of government
bond yields led financial institution to take massive notional
amounts of interest rate risk
By purchasing massive
amounts of high - risk MBS and long - term government
bonds, the Fed helped
lower longer - term interest rates but steered credit away from private investment, which was also impeded by stricter macro-prudential regulations.
The Thruway Authority's 2016 - 17 budget proposal called for $ 850 million in
bonds but there was flexibility to increase the
amount in order to take advantage of
low interest rates on the 40 - year
bonds.
This issuance in the approximate
amount of $ 1.2 billion provides an opportunity to refund higher - interest
bonds and replace them with
lower - cost debt, generating future savings to the State of New York.
Missing from this piece is the fact that the interest rate on the
amount borrowed from the pension funds would be
lower than that charged by outside lenders, or payable on
bonds.
Bonds have had
low interest rates for a record
amount of time, meaning
bond prices have been unusually expensive compared to the
bond interest they produce.
Lowering the
amount of risk in your portfolio by increasing the safer investments (ie more
bonds, less stocks) will help you sleep better at night if that is a problem.
The
amount of extra yield over Treasuries provided by high yield
bonds recently was 3.22 %, which is the
lowest it has been in 10 years and makes some investors cautious.
the percentage of return an investor receives based on the
amount invested or on the current market value of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate; yield stated is the yield to worst — the yield if the worst possible
bond repayment takes place, reflecting the
lower of the yield to maturity or the yield to call based on the previous close
The number of
bonds the investment team will select for your account may be higher or
lower than 25 - 50 based on the
amount invested.
Although they gain
low interest
amounts, the majority of
bonds have the advantage of being government - backed.
Alternatively, you could sell your
bond for a
lower price originally, so that the difference matches the
amount of projected interest, and not have to worry about making interest payments at all.
In fact, even in our worst case scenario the 7 year
bond only declines by a total
amount of 9.6 % at its
low point.4 Over the course of our entire 14 years that constant maturity
bond portfolio actually generated 2.85 % per year.
Record
amounts of money have been pumped into
bonds and managed
bond products at the
lowest interest rates of our lifetimes.
For a long period of time
bond yields remained historically
low and finally they are feeling the pinch of such a large
amount of stale investments.
Safe
bond investment may offer
low annual interest rate when compared to risky
bonds and this is why many new
bond investors tend to buy risky
bonds and end up risking not only their interest payment but their principal
amount as well.
Even if prevailing rates at the time of re-investment are
lower than the previous
bond was returning, the smaller
amount of reinvestment dollars mitigates the risk of investing a lot of cash at a
low return.
For certain individuals, it may be more prudent to purchase a term life insurance policy with
lower premiums for a fixed
amount of time and take the difference in savings between the two policies and invest in different types of stocks,
bonds and mutual funds which may lead to higher returns and a more diversified portfolio.
Build America
Bonds are intended to help state and local governments finance capital projects at a
lower cost because the federal government is subsidizing the interest paid in the
amount of 35 percent, stimulate the economy and create jobs.
Getting only 7 % returns because of adding
bonds, but
lowering volatility, still gives me the
amount I need after inflation.
Then I would structure your investments to throw off a decent
amount of divends and also a few years of living expenses in
low risk investments like CDs or short term
bonds.
I agree that having a all GIC /
bond fund is not very smart, but you should have a higher
amount in
lower risk investments as you get older.
When rates are
low, focusing on short - term
bonds offer the least
amount of risk.
In the first video in this series, I told you why high - yield
bonds fall short on a risk adjusted basis, and should only be included in your portfolio in small
amounts through a well - diversified
low - cost ETF, if at all.
Two additional similarities between target maturity ETFs and actual
bonds is, first, that they both fluctuate in price as interest rates move up and down and, second, that the market price when you buy can be a little higher or
lower than the
amount you'll get at maturity.
However, given you have the means to take more risk a generally smarter scheme would be to invest much of the money in a broad liquid
bond funds with a somewhat
lower percentage in stocks and then reduce the
amount of stock each year as you get closer even moving some into cash.
The demand for incremental yield has started to outweigh the traditional risk / return model in the corporate
bond market, as investors have begun taking on a relatively high
amount of risk for a relatively
low amount of incremental yield.
I suppose if we categorized all the investment information out there (and there is a lot), the
amount of attention given to
bonds would probably be dismally
low compared to the attention given stocks.
Also, with yields so
low on five - year Treasuries at 1.65 %, that should be reflected into the future for the strategy, so maybe the
amount of
bonds should be reduced?
So ILBs that you are stuck with from
low rates times will be worth much less than newer
bonds at the higher rates, even if you get some of the value back from higher principal
amounts.
The truth of the
bond portfolio they purchased is that none of the
bonds are «secured,» and the majority of them are callable at a
lower amount than the purchase price.