Sentences with phrase «point on bond funds»
Your point on bond funds is a good one; I personally use XSB (the short - term bond ETF) for larger portfolios.
http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/ Not exact matches
Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.
Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
Particularly good to see someone explain that the impact on bond funds is not the simplistic «1 % rise in bank rates means loss of duration %» but depends on the interest demanded at that point in the curve and normal supply / demand issues which are massively distorted for linkers.
(I only have cash and equities) I want an easy option and am on the point of increasing my bond holdings by settling on say, one of Vanguards» Lifestrategy funds when... «the more I read the more confused I get!»
For now, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a limited duration of about 2 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 2 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.
Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years in Treasury securities (meaning a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
The EFSF will now be able to loan the full amount allotted to the fund, it will be allowed to buy sovereign bonds on the primary market, and the interest rate on loans to Greece was cut by a percentage point while the maturities of the loans were extended.
Another point is that there can be mark - ups in bonds and thus it isn't necessarily that you are making more in trading bonds assuming one is buying bonds on the secondary market that may not be as liquid as a mutual fund.
Strategic Dividend Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
Strategic Total Return carries a duration of about 3.5 years, meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to affect Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations, about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
Strategic Total Return has a duration of about 3 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to affect Fund value by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), just over 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
The basic point of the concept is to seperate CDs, cash, bonds, annuities, and others into different «ladders» or «buckets» or «baskets,» depending on when the asset is expected to be liquidated to fund the retirement revenue stream.
Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in bond yields would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and a few percent of assets in utility shares.
An interesting article on diversifying the current trust fund to include stocks as well as government bonds to increase the rate of return that Paul complains about and lessen the danger pointed out by Foobarista.
If it's comparable to other money / bond funds, this might only earn 30 - 40 basis points for Rasmala on an institutional basis (with no performance fees).
The Adviser may use an active asset allocation strategy to increase or decrease neutral asset class exposures reflected above by up to 10 percentage points for Equity Funds (includes domestic and international equity funds), Bond Funds and Short - Term Funds to reflect the Adviser's market outlook, which is primarily focused on the intermediate Funds (includes domestic and international equity funds), Bond Funds and Short - Term Funds to reflect the Adviser's market outlook, which is primarily focused on the intermediate funds), Bond Funds and Short - Term Funds to reflect the Adviser's market outlook, which is primarily focused on the intermediate Funds and Short - Term Funds to reflect the Adviser's market outlook, which is primarily focused on the intermediate Funds to reflect the Adviser's market outlook, which is primarily focused on the intermediate term.