Sentences with phrase «quality investment grade»

The inclusion of lower credit quality investment grade bonds may introduce additional risk for the portfolio.

Jettison a lower quality junk bond ETF for a higher quality investment grade corporate bond ETF like iShares Intermediate Credit (CIU).

To mitigate the risk of the company going bankrupt, risk - averse investors will typically purchase high credit - quality investment grade bonds with AAA or AA ratings.

The effect can be seen though, in higher quality investment grade bonds.

(«AAA» and «AA» indicate a high credit - quality investment grade.)

Not exact matches

Cannon figures that the average credit quality of a the big banks lending portfolio probably falls halfway between high - yield debt and investment grade.

You can invest in bond funds by stated maturities (short - term, intermediate - term, long - term), credit quality (treasuries, junk bonds, investment grade corporate bonds) or pretty much any other way you can separate bond investments.

The fund can purchase securities of any credit quality, including those in default, but it will primarily invest in investment - grade debt, with no more than 20 % of the portfolio invested in junk bonds.

In the credit markets, both investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds had negative returns for the first time in eight quarters, with down - in - quality subsectors in each unconventionally outperforming higher quality ones.

Another way is to boost yield is to relax credit quality a little by opting for investment grade corporate bonds instead of triple - A government treasuries.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities, including leveraged loans, generally offer higher yields compared with investment - grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

Vaselkiv pointed out there was a «game changer» in February this year when «Moody's took a chainsaw to $ 150 billion of investment - grade oil and gas bonds, and downgraded very high - quality investmen - grade companies to BB,» which he noted was a one - time opportunity to prove the strength of their portfolios.

Within fixed income, we suggest raising average credit quality, particularly focusing on investments in areas like high - grade corporate and municipal bonds.

Principal Financial Group added an actively managed fixed - income ETF that focuses on investment - grade quality debt.

Blackrock Muni Yield Investment Quality (MFT) is a closed end fund that seeks current income exempt from regular Federal income tax through investment in insured investment grade municiInvestment Quality (MFT) is a closed end fund that seeks current income exempt from regular Federal income tax through investment in insured investment grade municiinvestment in insured investment grade municiinvestment grade municipal bonds.

The one I come back to is surprisingly simple: Increased demand for quality long - term bonds combined with a limited supply has created ashortage of investment - grade securities.

Blackrock Muni Holdings Quality (MUS) is a closed end fund that seeks current income exempt from regular Federal income tax through investment in investment grade municipal bonds.

In pursuance of the Union Budget 2018 announcement, the board also cleared a proposal on changing the investment grade rating from AA to A for corporate bonds, which would boost investment scope while ensuring credit quality.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

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.

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greatinvestment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greatInvestment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

The deterioration of quality in the investment - grade market is prevalent and a significant risk to the high - yield market.

We like U.S. investment - grade credit, hard - currency EM debt, stocks in selected EMs and global quality and dividend growth stocks.

Hartford Funds» new ETF joins two other already listed active fixed income ETFs sub-advised by Wellington (Hartford Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: HCOR), an ETF focused on investment - grade corporate bonds, and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (NYSE: HQBD), a core bond ETF focused on investment grade debt, including mortgage - backed securities and US government securities).

Now, Palacios is a second - grade bilingual teacher at New Highland Academy, an Oakland, California, elementary school that has pioneered education reform through the state's Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA), a $ 3 billion investment that brought smaller classes and additional school cInvestment Act (QEIA), a $ 3 billion investment that brought smaller classes and additional school cinvestment that brought smaller classes and additional school counselors.

Increase investment in high - quality early childhood education programs and interventions specifically serving grades K - 3 in low - performing schools and districts.

By comparing fourth - grade literacy outcomes against the experiences and inputs that produced these results — including indicators of health - care and preschool access, family economic well - being, mental - health and child - welfare services, nutrition, and comprehensive school quality — we can identify gaps in how we are serving children and target investments and reforms to those areas with the greatest potential to improve children's long - term life outcomes.

CC Classic Cars is a recognized leading dealer of high quality driving and investment grade classic cars.

I usually invest only in investment grade stocks, but I would make an exception here based on other factors, including S&P's own quality ranking of A.

In general, bonds are divided into two broad levels of credit quality — investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY).

The manager aims to produce high income returns by investing predominantly in investment grade or high - quality issuers, including the subordinated corporate bond issues of investment grade business.

Two of the largest risks are that the average credit quality of bonds in this sector is well below investment grade and the heavy issuance of zero coupon bonds creates a sector that has one of the longest durations in the municipal bond market.

Although the advisor intends to invest at least 65 % of the fund's net assets in municipal bonds rated investment grade or in unrated municipal bonds that fund management believes are of comparable quality, it is possible that in the future the fund could invest up to 100 % of its assets in «junk bonds.»

Adding a high quality, 100 % investment grade, sleeve such as the S&P U.S. High Quality Preferred Stock Index, into a preferred portfolio can improve portfolio credit quality which may mitigate the impact of a market sequality, 100 % investment grade, sleeve such as the S&P U.S. High Quality Preferred Stock Index, into a preferred portfolio can improve portfolio credit quality which may mitigate the impact of a market seQuality Preferred Stock Index, into a preferred portfolio can improve portfolio credit quality which may mitigate the impact of a market sequality which may mitigate the impact of a market sell off.

Interest rates in these countries are at least 4 % higher than in the U.S. or Europe and the credit quality of most of these countries is investment grade, plus the holdings of the larger ETFs are so widely distributed that unless one had a major financial crisis, similar to the Asian crisis in 1995 or the financial meltdown in 2008, one's investment should weather most isolated storms.

Though you may not risk losing any of your money, losing purchasing power to inflation can be a risk over time with conservative investments, such as high - quality investment - grade bonds.

Accordingly, we are migrating some of our duration exposures to the shorter part of the curve and layering in partially (or fully) rate - hedged investment - grade and municipal bonds out the curve to capture higher - quality spread.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

Liquid and UST funds also hold an equally good credit quality (investment grade AA / AAA) in their portfolios.

While the portfolio of high - quality bonds may offer additional return potential, long - term investment grade bonds are subject to substantial interest rate risk.

Safety — Depends upon the kind of instruments the fund invests in; Typically is investment grade quality.

Although the bond market is also volatile, lower - quality debt securities including leveraged loans generally offer higher yields compared to investment grade securities, but also involve greater risk of default or price changes.

We prefer higher - quality investment - grade issues as well as financial paper in both Europe (Tier 1) and the U.S. (bank preferreds).

Since the Fed's last asset purchase settled on December 18, 2014, however, I had downshifted to 50 % -55 % high quality growth, 25 % investment grade income and a (20 % -25 %) bucket of ultra-low yielding cash.

They're restricted to higher - quality bonds — like so - called «investment grade» corporate bonds.

This flight to quality movement also impacted credit spreads, which widened for both investment grade and high yield corporate bonds, negatively impacting the returns of bonds in those sectors.

Investment grade bonds are the highest quality bonds as assessed by a credit ratings agency.

The high - quality index includes investment - grade constituents only, whereas 44 % of the broader preferred index includes speculative - grade stocks and another 14 % is not rated.

These are bonds paying a high rate of interest because the issuers are of lesser credit quality than government and investment - grade corporate bonds.

That would constitute 30 % -33 % highest quality equity, 20 % -22 % investment grade income and 45 % -50 % cash.