Sentences with phrase «lower returns on bonds»

Investors are willing to accept lower returns on bonds in exchange for safety, but near - zero interest rate levels have traditional bondholders seeking yield elsewhere.

Even as you get older, you'll still want to hold some stocks to protect your wealth from inflation and lower returns on bonds.

It's no fun to earn lower returns on bonds, but remember why you have them in your portfolio in the first place.

The lower the return on bonds, the more assets a fund needs to hold to ensure members can be paid off.

Should low returns on bonds and stocks persist, that would only exacerbate this trend.

Not exact matches

If too much money is invested in safe, risk - free U.S. Treasury bonds, that basically insures a very low return on an investment.

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

«But due to the low coupons prevailing, even a gradual rise in yields will result in negative returns on a wide range of government bonds over the coming quarters.»

It also punishes savers, who must consequently content themselves with pathetic returns on (theoretically) low - risk instruments like government bonds and bank deposits.

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

-LSB-...] the long - term returns on bonds will certainly be lower than average based on the current yields.

Also, here's a good one on the potential for lower bond returns using a historical period for the lower yield environment you talked about:

Even when investors stick to stock, bond, and mutual fund ownership, their rejection of simple investing basics such as low turnover results in pathetic returns on their money.

Public debt charges were $ 141 million lower -LRB--0.6 %), largely reflecting lower CPI adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

For instance, a portfolio with an allocation of 49 % domestic stocks, 21 % international stocks, 25 % bonds, and 5 % short - term investments would have generated average annual returns of almost 9 % over the same period, albeit with a narrower range of extremes on the high and low end.

Each month, Palhares and Richardson sorted corporate bonds into quintiles based on each liquidity measure and computed the return of a long / short portfolio that buys the least liquid bonds (i.e., smaller issue sizes, higher bid / ask spreads, lower trading volume, higher price impact or higher frequency of zero - trading days) and sells the most liquid bonds (i.e., larger issue sizes, smaller bid / ask spreads, higher trading volume, lower price impact or lower frequency of zero - trading days).

Even without suggesting that money will move «out of cash and into stocks,» one might argue that relative valuations are too wide, and that stocks should be priced to achieve lower long - term returns, given the poor returns available on bonds.

Thus, if we look at bonds from a historical perspective, interest rates are very low — which is great for those borrowing money — but not so great for those that wish to see higher rates of interest, and return, on their money.

And given this low interest rate environment, bonds may not be a great total return idea — especially if rates embark on a prolonged tightening (increase) spree.

And if you can buy some business that earns high returns on equity and has even got mild growth prospects, you know, at much lower multiple earnings, you are going to do better than buying ten - year bonds at 2.30 or 30 - year bonds at three, or something of the sort.»

When investors begin to focus on the potential for Fed rate hikes, short - term bonds will almost certainly begin to experience lower returns and — depending on the type of fund — greater volatility than they have in years past.

, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up on high quality bonds because they're worried about poor returns from low yields.

Public debt charges were $ 506 million lower (2.7 %), largely reflecting lower CPI adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

Government bonds are on historically tiny yields, which point to low future returns.

Well, investors have seen low returns on top of most fiat currencies, stocks and bonds.

The decline to date in public debt charges of $ 1.4 billion (8.9 %) largely reflects lower average effective interest rates and lower inflation adjustments on Real Return Bonds.

By design, the Fed wished to push investors into higher risk assets such as equities and real estate by lowering the return on safe bond investments.

Based on these categories, mutual funds receive rankings based on highest - rated value, highest - rated growth, daily gainers and losers, category of highest and lowest returns, highest - rated large - cap funds, highest - rated mid-cap funds, small - cap funds, high - yield bond funds, high and low risk foreign funds, top year to date performers, analysis of prior year's top performers and...

That's dragged yields on $ 7.8 trillion of government debt negative; by contrast, the lowest rated corporate bonds have returned 151 percent since 2008, including 9.4 percent this year through mid-June.

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While the costs associated with the issuance of bonds are important, a sound transaction: one which lowers the overall interest rate on the bonds will return a far greater savings to an issuer than the costs of bonding.

The Litman Gregory folks started with a common premise: «In the years ahead, we believe there will be mediocre returns and higher volatility from stocks, and low returns from bonds... [we sought] «alternative» strategies that we believe are not highly dependent on tailwinds from stocks and bonds to generate returns.»

Because investors do not have to pay taxes on returns, tax - exempt bonds will have lower interest than equivalent taxable bonds.

Returns on fixed income investments — aka bonds — have been much lower.

Many believe this dynamic can go on, since rates are probably going to remain low, creating a still high «equity risk premium» — the likely return from stocks over bonds.

Bond funds and money market funds are more conservative and designed to provide lower returns in exchange for a focus on capital preservation.

We can (and have) capitalized on a wide range of opportunities in the bond market, including in higher and lower quality bonds, strategic and high - yield bonds, floating - rate securities and even total - return funds, which aren't fully invested in bonds.

Stocks are lower in the claim chain on corporate assets than bonds, so when bondholders demand better returns, stocks suffer in the short run.

But with the yield on long low - investment grade bonds hovering above 5 %, I can tell you with certainty as a life actuary that the life companies are not providing a 7 % return to retirees — it is far, far less, more like 4 %, or maybe less.

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

These types of low - rated bonds are the same as the high - yielding and speculative bonds, because they carry the highest risk and can bring the highest return on investment, if they are paid back at maturity.

But if you've already got your savings in a mix of stocks and bonds that's appropriate for your age and risk tolerance your chances of boosting your return without also taking on significantly more risk are low.

Tobacco settlement bonds are the target of refundings as the high interest rates on older debt can be replaced with lower cost debt via the refunding mechanism helping to drive returns.

Investment returns on whole life insurance are typically lower than other types of permanent insurance, because the insurance company invests the cash value in extremely conservative vehicles, such as bond funds.

While a non-volatile investment option, the return on savings bonds is usually low compared to more aggressive plans.

If the investor could only reinvest at 4 % (say, because market returns fell after the bonds were issued), the investor's actual return on the bond investment would be lower than expected.

If you compare that to the 2.86 % SEC Yield on Vanguard's Total Bond Market Index Fund — which is a good estimate of its future return — the CD's return is a little lower but comes with more certainty.

Right now the premium on AAA corporate and the like is so low that I wouldn't recommend picking them up, but when the yield curve eventually becomes a curve again, you can find good risk - adjusted returns in corporate bonds (providing you're holding to maturity).

the lowest potential yield that can be received on a bond without the issuer actually defaulting; calculated by making worst - case scenario assumptions on the issue by calculating the returns that would be received if any in - whole mandatory redemptive provisions are exercised by the issuer; partial redemptive provisions (such as sinking funds) are not included in yield to worst calculations; the yield to worst metric is used to evaluate the worst - case scenario for yield to help investors manage risks and ensure that specific income requirements will still be met even in the worst scenarios

Usually on a fixed - coupon bond (e.g. Government bond) the interest rate is fixed for a given period (say 10 years), and if market rates rise the face value of the bond falls, to compensate for the lower return a new buyer would get, compared to the market interest rate.