I mean of course individual bonds
rather than bond funds since we are talking about a specific loan with specific interest rate and the promise to return the debt at maturity.
There are many situations where it does indeed make sense to use a high - interest savings account
rather than a bond fund.
Seven ETFs and a ladder of fixed income investments (
rather than a bond fund at this stage in the cycle).
Not exact matches
Certainly, it offers an attractive level for longer - term investors such as pension and insurance
funds to lock in a relatively decent yield, and will tempt some portfolio managers to buy
bonds rather than equities.
Rather than paying these pensions out of current income as it is earned or plowing their earnings back into investment in their own business, companies take their income and «financialize» it by buying stocks and
bonds for their pension
funds.
Yet we also see very strong inflows into junk
bond funds, based on the belief that these high yields represent value
rather than information about default probabilities.
Apple has already done a $ 17 billion
bond offering (the company decided to borrow the money
rather than pay the hefty U.S. taxes required to bring some offshore cash back home) in order to raise
funds for a planned $ 60 billion share repurchase over three years.
1MDB has a $ 3 billion
bond outstanding that does not mature until 2023 but the
fund has a strong incentive to pay this back sooner
rather than later — even if it means paying bondholders a premium.
«In a minority of cases, activist hedge
funds may bring some lasting value for shareholders but largely at the expense of workers and
bond holders; thus the impact of activist hedge
funds appears to take the form of wealth transfer
rather than wealth creation.»
ETNs are designed to deliver the total return on a broad index or individual commodity, but
rather than being structured as pools of securities that the
fund itself owns, they are instead unsecured
bonds (notes) issued by a firm that agrees to deliver the return of the index it tracks.
Using the State Pension
fund to legitimately lend the State money as an investment
rather than the State issuing
bonds for smoothing spending is an intelligent idea, but with the same terms and conditions as any
bond issuance would have.
For example, Leggett said, if the town knows it will have to replace a roof in 10 years, it can't put aside $ 20,000 per year in a capital reserve
fund to pay for the project, and the town is forced to
bond rather than pay - as - you - go.
Despite the spending reductions, Bellone said he will
fund more
than $ 300 million in projects for the Southwest Sewer district using the sewer district stabilization
fund rather than bonds.
The price of the assets would include the closing price on the stock
rather than a bid or ask, similar pricing for
bonds held by the
fund, derivatives and cash equivalents.
It's also designed to mirror the characteristics of the broad - market
funds mentioned above, but
rather than holding
bonds directly it gets exposure through a total return swap.
One simple way to prepare for changing
bond market is to invest in
bond funds rather than individual
bonds.
For diversification purposes it seems like I'd want to do this via a
bond fund rather than buying individual
bonds.
So why would you use a barbell
rather than simply holding a broad - based
bond index
fund?
If you're looking for an index mutual
fund rather than an ETF, the e-Series version of TD's Canadian Bond Index Fund should top your l
fund rather than an ETF, the e-Series version of TD's Canadian
Bond Index
Fund should top your l
Fund should top your list.
Funds (of bonds, rather than funds that contain property or shares or other investments) are often high yield, low volati
Funds (of
bonds,
rather than funds that contain property or shares or other investments) are often high yield, low volati
funds that contain property or shares or other investments) are often high yield, low volatility.
Buy a
fund of
bonds, there are plenty and are registered on your stockbroker account as «
funds»
rather than shares.
Rather than picking individual stocks, a mutual
fund is a readymade, diverse portfolio of different stocks and
bonds managed by a financial expert.
The larger problem caused by its name is Morningstar's decision to assign the
fund to the «world
bond» group
rather than the «short - term
bond» group.
Rather than purchasing individual
bonds, investors purchase shares in the
bond fund.
Andrew Hallam presents a nice argument (as do you) for viewing stocks as reserve
funds to take advantage of a downturn
rather than just something you expect to return the standard
bond return from.
Usually it's a combination of the two ** We will likely see a bucking of the trend of increased delinquencies in subprime auto ABS pools; tightening of underwriting standards will help auto lenders keep their
funding costs lower * If there's a large macro event or shock, such as unemployment rates rising, there will actually be a much bigger impact to prime auto
bonds rather than subprime.
Rather than pursue cross-over corporates or high - yield or even long - term investment grade corporates, we have stayed near the middle of the curve with
funds like: (1) SPDR Nuveen Muni (TFI), (2) Vanguard Total
Bond (BND), (3) iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury (IEF) and (4) iShares 3 - 7 Year Treasury (IEI).
I remember reading long ago that if you want to add
bonds to your portfolio, to buy them directly
rather than in a
bond mutual
fund because a
bond fund holds more risk, especially when it comes to government
bonds.
I prefer using a
bond index
fund rather than individual
bonds as the expenses are much lower in my case.
The advantage of an investment account is essentially the advantage of investing your money in markets — securities,
bonds, exchange traded
funds, etc. —
rather than simply putting your assets into a savings account.
It is questionable whether the vast majority of individual investors should own directly any common stocks or individual
bonds rather than investment
funds.
In your case where you have mutual
funds already, it is probably a good idea to keep investing in mutual
funds with a theme which you understand the industry's role in the economy today
rather than investing in some special
bonds which you can not relate to.
Rather than fund their growth via retained earnings as most corporations do, they paid out virtually all of their cash flow from operations as distributions and then routinely went to the stock and
bond markets when they needed growth capital.
Invest in
bond funds rather than individual
bonds — «I believe the most effective way for investors to actively manage their portfolios is to use mutual and exchange traded
funds.
And then he pushed me to be 100 % invested in the market - related mutual
funds during this huge downturn (
rather than, say, directing at least some of the
funds to a safe haven like money market
fund or
bond fund or whatever).
Most new investors would be wise to invest in low - cost index mutual
funds and ETFs
rather than picking specific stocks or
bonds.
Since index
funds simply buy the stocks or
bonds that make up indexes like the Standard & Poor's 500 or Barclays U.S. Aggregate
bond index
rather than spend millions on costly research and manpower to identify which securities might perform best, they're able to pass those savings along to shareholders in the form of lower annual fees, which translates to higher returns and more wealth over the long term.
I happen to be a strong believer in managing risk through a high quality
bond fund or CDs
rather than using options.
A host of others simply picked the most conservative choices (
bond or money market
funds)
rather than making any attempt to learn about the
funds with more potential for growth.
There is a second issue — though many companies earn far more
than they did in the past, many waste money by buying back stock,
rather than retaining the
funds, retiring
bonds, or handing out dividends.
So why doesn't Social Security invest the trust
funds in stocks
rather than Treasury
bonds?
Rather than choosing a mix of stock and
bond mutual
funds, you select a single
fund designed to have the right combination of assets based on when you plan to retire — your «target date.»
Given the limited number of
bond terms, and therefore difficulty setting up a
bond ladder with such
bonds, many use a TIPS
fund rather than buy individual securities, but diversification of TIPS is not required either if you do not need staggered maturities (a
bond ladder).
For most investors, use a well - diversified
bond fund rather than purchase individual
bonds.
If government
bonds carried risks similar to stocks, then there would likely be more reasons to hold
bonds as
funds rather than individually.
Rather than picking stocks and
bonds on your own to create a diversified portfolio, you select a single
fund designed to have the right combination of assets based on when you plan to retire — your «target date.»
are expressing perplexity over the market for
bonds, which is institutional and driven by accounting and regulatory concerns (ALM, pension
funding regs, risk charges on surplus for holding equities, marking investment grade
bonds at amortized cost
rather than to market, etc.).
With corporate
bonds, you can moderate some of the higher default risks by investing in corporate
bond funds,
rather than trying to select individual and potentially more risky individual corporate
bonds.
Bond funds typically pay monthly interest, which makes them attractive to investors who need income more frequently,
rather than semi-annually.
An ETF of ETFs is an exchange - traded
fund (ETF) that tracks other ETFs
rather than an underlying stock,
bond, or index.