Sentences with phrase «more traditional bonds»

Bardem's Silva is a throwback to a more traditional Bond villain, with equal parts creepy sensuality, intelligence, and psychopathy, and a touch of physical deformity for good measure.

Not exact matches

Recruit more tech - savvy workers who might otherwise spurn the bond manager for traditional software companies, people familiar with the matter said... Many of those new employees will be engineers tasked with modernizing Pimco's technology systems, from the tools used to harness new databases of information to the platforms that trade bonds electronically.

Anyone new to «traditional» investing (equities and bonds), and who is interested in learning more, should become familiar with the Boglehead forum.

When it comes to risk, they're somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, between common stocks (more risky) and traditional bonds (less risky).

Reining In Rates O'Neil, one of the managers of the $ 26 billion Fidelity Total Bond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more TreasurBond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasurbond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasuries.

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This year, I predict that we'll hear a lot more about smart beta in fixed income as an attractive alternative to traditional passive bond indexes.

When thinking about your fixed income investment options, bear in mind that over the past several years, traditional bond funds have become much more correlated to stocks.

Sometimes the market goes on a growth binge, especially when bonds and the more traditional securities do not seem to offer intriguing alternatives.

As Rosenbluth noted, HYDB allocates more of its roster to B - rated bonds and less to CCC - rated issues than do the two largest, traditional junk bond ETFs.

-- Income more difficult to provide clients, in a zero rate environment many will suggest high yield corporate bonds and leveraged loans to supplement traditional fixed income but many clients are not willing to sacrifice quality for a higher yield.

As their name implies, unconstrained funds typically contain a more heterogeneous mix of bonds than traditional bond funds heavily weighted to Treasuries.

One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful in more conservative portfolios that are dominated by traditional bonds.

Investors with a more traditional mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds, face a likely expected return in the bottom 11 percent of history dating back to 1925.

As far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggests.

A mix of stocks and FIAs modeled under interest rate scenarios of up to 3 percent increase over a three - year period, generate higher returns compared with the more traditional 60/40 stock and bond portfolio.

This reflects both the increasing risk of long - dated government bonds — as rates drop, duration or rate sensitivity has risen — and the fact that traditional bonds have never been more expensive.

Anxious to earn their assumed returns of 7 to 8 percent a year, pension funds across the country have been pushing more money into alternatives instead of traditional stocks and bonds.

The conspicuous spike in shattered sticks, they discovered, coincided with a shift in preference from traditional ash bats to maple, a supposedly more durable wood that skyrocketed in popularity after Barry Bonds clobbered a record - breaking 73 home runs with maple bats in 2001.

The Irish Negga would conform to traditional Bond expectations while opening up the image of the secret agent to more than white men.

Some school districts use «private placement» to sell bonds rather than using a more traditional method of selling bonds in the primary market to many investors.

Because of tax and debt limits, educational districts could not raise tax rates or borrow more money using traditional Current Interest Bonds to compensate for the loss in revenue resulting from the decline in property values.

While it is true that preferred stocks may see price declines as traditional long - term bonds would, the losses may be more than offset by the potential yield.

They often include instruments such as high yield, emerging market debt and other more esoteric instruments that tend to be missing from traditional bond funds.

When it comes to risk, they're somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, between common stocks (more risky) and traditional bonds (less risky).

One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful in more conservative portfolios that are dominated by traditional bonds.

XSI offers investors a fixed income solution that may deliver a more balanced risk profile of credit and interest rate risk than the traditional Canadian bond universe.

This reflects both the increasing risk of long - dated government bonds — as rates drop, duration or rate sensitivity has risen — and the fact that traditional bonds have never been more expensive.

As their name implies, unconstrained funds typically contain a more heterogeneous mix of bonds than traditional bond funds heavily weighted to Treasuries.

They may be your more traditional asset allocation type of funds, where it's a blend of different stocks and bonds, and maybe cash, things like that.

Absolute return funds offer an alternative to more traditional stock, bond, or balanced funds.

The study I referred to earlier showed that more traditional retirement stocks - bonds allocations — 60 % -40 %, 50 % -50 % and 40 % -60 % — held up about as well or better than a 90 % stocks - 10 % bond portfolio, and a larger bond stake would have provided more of a cushion during stock market setbacks.

For example, when a finance professor at Spain's IESE Business School examined how a 90 % stocks - 10 % bonds portfolio would have performed over 86 rolling 30 - year periods between 1900 and 2014 following the 4 % rule — i.e., withdrawing 4 % initially and then subsequently boosting withdrawals by the inflation rate — he found not only that the Buffett portfolio survived almost 98 % of the time, but that it had a significantly higher balance after 30 years than more traditional retirement portfolios with say, 50 % or 60 % invested in stocks.

Part 3, by Giannini, makes the case for Real Estate as an asset class, one that's potentially more powerful than the traditional ones of stocks and bonds favored by traditional retirement savers.

The other panelists will consider some more advanced strategies, including adding alternative asset classes to traditional stock - bond portfolios.

For long - term investors, a traditional bond allocation (whether it's a ladder or a broad - based ETF) will provide more protection when equity markets take a tumble, and that's the most important role of fixed income in a portfolio.

The only trade - off is that strip bonds have a longer duration than traditional bonds of the same maturity, so BXF (with a duration of about 3.6) will be somewhat more sensitive to interest rate movements than CLF (duration 2.5) and XSB (duration 2.8).

These include more «traditional» investments such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

The DRS has had more downside risk than traditional investment - grade bonds, but with the lack of yield available in fixed income, an increasing number of investors are open to the idea of an allocation to «alternative fixed income.»

It probably won't do fantastically well while interest rates are rising but it will protect you more than traditional bond strategies if you're fearful about interest rate increases looking out over a multi-year horizon.

For a more traditional portfolio of 60 % equity / 40 % bonds, using bernstein advice would be increasing equity allocation from 60 % to 70 % during rebalancing.

Commodities have historically provided investors with a hedge against inflation, a way to capitalize on the growth of emerging economies around the world as well as returns that are uncorrelated to more traditional asset classes, such as stocks and bonds.

Mortgage - backed investments, unlike traditional debt investments, are also subject to prepayment risk, which means that they may increase in value less than other bonds when interest rates decline and decline in value more than other bonds when interest rates rise.

Because of the inflation adjustment, this Fund's 30 - day yield may be more volatile, and differ substantially from one month to the next, than 30 - day SEC yields quoted on traditional (nominal) bond investments.

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This year, I predict that we'll hear a lot more about smart beta in fixed income as an attractive alternative to traditional passive bond indexes.

Rates on traditional fixed - rate mortgages saw their largest one - week increase in more than 20 years this week, shooting back well above 6 percent on continued volatility in markets for investments such as Treasurys and bonds that finance mortgages.

Investors who are looking for a way to play bonds in a more traditional way now have some decent options in the space.

Investors with a more traditional mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds, face a likely expected return in the bottom 11 percent of history dating back to 1925.

With traditional bonds, it is highly likely that the interest rate at some maturity will change by 0.5 % or more every six months.