Sentences with phrase «much as the bond»

It would be interesting to know whether GIC investors stray from their chosen path as much as bond investors do.

Insurance policies are high credit quality obligations, they don't vary as much as bonds that are risky.

Well, unless you've been rebalancing periodically (or pulling money from your stock holdings), the fact that stocks have returned roughly four times as much as bonds over the past five years would have significantly titled your portfolio mix much more toward equities, making it more vulnerable to a setback than it was five years ago.

Over the long run, stocks have returned about twice as much as bonds, but those generous stock returns have been accompanied by tremendous volatility.

Our longer - term bond funds declined in this environment, though with stock upside we didn't decline as much as the bond index.

Not exact matches

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

She cites a 2007 UCLA study that found «the quiet, in - between moments of family life did as much of the real work of family bonding as any fabricated family time.»

They get preoccupied with all sorts of things — elections, central bank policies, the weather — but nothing has dominated investor thinking as much lately as bond rates and income stocks.

Inflation is a concern within Germany as it's still haunted by the hyperinflation of the 1920s and top economists — like Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann — have been noticeably cautious on too much bond buying from the ECB.

Mohamed El - Erian, CEO of bond firm Pimco, told his wife just after Lehman's bankruptcy to withdraw as much cash as she could from the ATM.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondAs a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondas equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bonds.

She said those include how much you have in cash for short - term expenses, the way your assets are allocated between stocks and bonds, as well as your spending behavior.

Back then, bond yields were much, much higher, as were savings rates.

Interestingly, Bond Street is rolling out an advisory service for those members, much as a robo - adviser (say, Wealthfront or Betterment) would offer automated advice on asset investments.

The $ 3 trillion hedge fund industry, which has been struggling to outperform stock and bond markets, could see assets shrink by as much as 30 percent in the next three years if performance continues to disappoint, according to a report this month from Boston Consulting Group.

We said long - term bond prices could fall as much as 10 %.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

Inflation hurts bond returns because your fixed interest payments aren't worth as much going forward.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

When savings account rates and yields on government bonds are low, gold suddenly becomes much more attractive to hold as a store of value.

With extraordinary low interest rates and modest inflation, investing in long - term bonds to capture as much yield as possible may seem like a smart move.

If you try to redeem your bond to take advantage of rising rates you won't get as much for it.

Where the bond ETF is negatively correlated to the Composite (one zigs, the other zags), the preferred ETF has a low but positive correlation (one zigs, the other usually zigs too but not by as much).

A bond allocation comprised primarily of individual bonds provides much more flexibility as it relates to duration management and tax efficiency.

The trend continued Wednesday with a decline of as much as 9.7 per cent, the biggest drop since June 2016, to $ 252.10 U.S.. Its unsecured bonds have also hit all - time lows ahead of the release of first - quarter production results expected next week.

The other advantage of corporate bond ETFs is that they will not rise as much as Canada treasuries, at least in the early phase of rate hikes.

You guys are set for life John and really don't have to worry about stocks and bonds and diversification as much if your debt levels are under control and your pension covers all your expenses.

While she expected that bond yields might not fall too much near term as managers would need to allocate some funds to cash bonds, swaps and futures would likely remain under pressure.

The cost of insuring Vivendi bonds using credit - default swaps increased as much as 4 basis points, or 2 percent, to 203 basis points today, according to Bloomberg prices.

The conflict may have something to do with Barry referring to S&P and Moody's, the bond ratings agencies that blessed so much toxic paper, as «Pimps and Whores ``.

If the market is doing bad, don't take as much cash out (thats what your bonds and dividend paying stocks are for).

E.g. instead of real estate, you were mostly in stocks, or bonds, or bitcoin, or collectible Beanie Babies (pretty much the same as bitcoin).

It is all part of the wonderful way the emerging bond markets help to give each investor have as much choice as possible for making the right choices.

As bond yields surged on Friday, high - yielding segments of the equity market such as utilities and REITs came under the most pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rallAs bond yields surged on Friday, high - yielding segments of the equity market such as utilities and REITs came under the most pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rallas utilities and REITs came under the most pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rally.

Higher risk bonds have had their prices bid up, and as a result they do not provide investors with as much yield as would be expected.

It's just that with rates so low now there's not as much of a cushion if inflation picks up in the future, so volatilty will likely be higher than normal in bonds.

But if interest rates and bond yields had decreased in the meantime, you wouldn't be able to generate as much income as before with the same amount invested in a similar quality bond.

The target date fund naturally adjusts your investment allocation between stocks and bonds as you get closer to retirement so you don't have to do much (except keep putting money in!).

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

Actually, as much as I'd like to nail Romney and Bain, it was Mike Milken who started this business of doing LBOs with junk bonds way back in the late 1970s.

«When a judge sets a bond that is so high that you have to plead guilty to get out of jail,» with as much media attention as the Cruz case received, «they can do it to anyone,» Kimok said.

While higher weightings toward equities didn't make much sense for retirement in the past, it now makes more sense than what used to be conservative, such as a higher bond allocation.

And when valuations are at extremes, as we believe bonds are today, historical price volatility might not shed much light on future risk.

But a bigger question looms: Will the much - publicized settlement change the rules of engagement between raters and corporate issuers of bonds, as well as the investors who buy them?

We don't want to have too much money in bonds in brokerage because the interests gets taxed as ordinary income.

The answer is that Fed policy is the primary factor driving the returns of short - term bonds, meaning that they tend to hold up much better than long - term debt when the Fed is expected to keep rates low as was the case in 2013.

This new, higher - risk means that new investors will require a higher rate and will not pay as much for previously issued bonds.