If I need money, I would have to
sell some bond funds....
If your stock gains aren't sufficient, make it up by
selling bond funds.
You folks seem to know a lot more then me, are
you selling your bond funds or holding?
We sold the bond funds our broker had us in and purchased low - cost tax - advantaged funds.
Institutional investors aren't
selling their bond funds carrying more credit risk, according to Monaghan, who runs high - yield bond portfolios for pension funds, endowments and foundations.
Not exact matches
Most likely, the manager will be forced to
sell some
bonds, potentially at a discount, as the
fund needs to simply raise cash to meet redemptions.
Institutional investors (such as pension
funds) routinely insist on holding only highly - rated securities, so a downgrade can force them to
sell that issuer's
bonds.
If rules allowed, Fink added, the guy's pension
fund should
sell all of its
bonds «and go 100 % equities» because that's where tomorrow's returns will be made.
Anyone buying or
selling stocks,
bonds, foreign exchange, commodities or exchange - traded
funds (ETFs) will be affected by the new standards.
Pension
funds» portfolio rebalancing can be achieved by
selling equities as well as buying
bonds.
To maintain the balance of their portfolios, pension
fund managers have been
selling equities and buying more
bonds, and their notable demand for the latter counters the popular narrative that the 35 - year rally in fixed income is over.
These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained
bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity
funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan
funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and
sell wrappers.
To reduce the risk of capital losses,
sell bonds and
bond funds with a 10 - year - plus time horizon and buy short - term notes instead, says Dominic Bellissimo, a portfolio manager with Dynamic F
funds with a 10 - year - plus time horizon and buy short - term notes instead, says Dominic Bellissimo, a portfolio manager with Dynamic
FundsFunds.
Furthermore, the 1 percent you pay to your money manager doesn't always cover the costs of buying and
selling the stocks and
bonds in your portfolio or the sales charges (also known as loads) and administrative fees charged by the mutual
funds your manager puts you into.
Big mutual
funds have
sold out of big
bond positions — notably Pimco in the period around Bill Gross's departure — without causing a major crash.
But if
bond prices crash, investors will want to take their money out, the
funds will need to
sell, and all those giant
bond funds that provided the bid for
bonds on the way up will turn into sellers on the way down.
If you own the
bond fund that fell in value, you can
sell it right after the fall and still buy the portfolio of individual
bonds some say you should have owned to begin with (which, again, also fell in value!).
HONG KONG — In 2012, with help from Goldman Sachs, a Malaysian sovereign wealth
fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad
sold $ 3.5 billion worth of
bonds backed by an Abu Dhabi government
fund to help it purchase power plants.
«As the U.S. economy slowed and Europe's debt crisis worsened, investors sought the safety of Treasuries and
sold the
bonds PIMCO had bet on, leaving the
fund trailing 89 % of competitors in August and 67 % this year through Sept. 8.»
When you put your money in an index
fund, you're investing in a broad range of stock or
bonds (again, usually an entire market), so you don't have to deal with — or do the research associated with — buying and
selling individual stocks.
Lastly, unlike
bond mutual
funds which can only be purchased or redeemed at end of day, individual
bonds can be bought and
sold throughout the day providing the investor with more immediate liquidity.
«Some hybrid
funds may consider
selling their stock investments for
fund redemption due to weak liquidity for their
bond investments following the
bond market and money market crash,» analysts at Credit Suisse said in a note dated Friday.
In fact, the
fund run by legendary
bond manager Bill Gross is among «the 10 top -
selling ETFs this year even though it wasn't launched until March,» according to ETF Trends» John Spence.
Bonds and
bond funds are taxed in 2 ways — based on the income that's distributed and on any gains if the investment is
sold at a profit.
Bond funds allow you to buy or
sell your
fund shares each day.
Whether the
fund's mandate is broad or narrow,
bond funds invest in many different securities — often buying and
selling according to market conditions and rarely holding
bonds until maturity — so it's an easier way to achieve diversification even with a small investment.
«I wish I had known the full range of investments and their different functions — that it's not just stocks,
bonds and mutual
funds that an advisor can
sell you,» he says.
Oppenheimer, the large mutual
fund company, also owned some of the
bonds issued by Remington, but said it
sold its debt holdings last year.
What's more, since
fund managers regularly buy and
sell bonds, there may also be capital gains and losses incurred.
I
sold my stocks including the ComEd DRIP and created a diversified portfolio of actively managed equity and
bond mutual
funds.
Historically, other than in times of extreme market turmoil, when the stock market
sells off with force, the
funds flow into the Treasury
bond market.
The next big event that triggers a big
sell - off in the junk market will cut the value of a lot of these junk
bond mutual
funds down by one - third to a half.
Brokerage accounts are used to buy and
sell stocks,
bonds, mutual
funds, ETFs, and other investments.
In the end, the insiders
sold out at the top of the market, leaving pension -
fund investors with stocks whose prices were falling and
bonds that were losing their prospects of being paid off.
Under no circumstances does the information in this website represent a recommendation to buy or
sell stocks,
bonds, mutual
funds, exchange traded
funds (ETF's), other securities or investment products.
«Our business is not about
selling a stock, a
bond, a mutual
fund and insurance,» says David Lane, managing principal of the investment firm Edward Jones Canada.
This can lead to short - term
selling pressure in
bond ETFs and mutual
funds.
A brokerage account allows you to buy and
sell everything from stocks and
bonds to mutual
funds, currency, futur...
The mutual
fund itself will buy and
sell stocks or
bonds or whatever it invests in, and those transactions have a cost.
You might want to
sell some shares of the
bond fund and use the proceeds to buy shares in the stock
fund.
The rate at which the Fed
sells or purchases government
bonds determines the federal
funds rate, or the rate at which banks can borrow
funds from one another overnight.
This is the amount from the stock
funds we
sold this year and
bond funds we already had in the brokerage account.
Also, we can postpone buying or we can
sell some stock
funds in our other brokerage account instead, if the stocks are beating the
bonds then.
Commission - based advisors earn their money by
selling stocks,
bonds, mutual
funds, life insurance, annuities and other investments.
In a
bond mutual
fund, the managers constantly buy and
sell bonds.
While much of the outflows so far have been a result of investors switching out of high yield into safer money - market and government
bond funds, Gutteridge believes we have seen the bulk of the
selling.
Although there will still be some amount of buying and
selling in the portfolio during that time (for instance, to deal with things like new investors buying into the
fund or
selling a
bond with a declining credit profile), it should be less than what would be experienced in a traditional
bond mutual
fund.
If interest rates rise between the time a
bond is originally purchased by the
fund and the time that same
bond is
sold, this will create a capital loss for the
fund and potentially its investors as well.
As rates headed higher, investors
sold off municipal
bonds, pushing the largest municipal
bond fund, iShares National AMT - Free Muni Bond ETF (MUB), to its biggest discount in hist
bond fund, iShares National AMT - Free Muni
Bond ETF (MUB), to its biggest discount in hist
Bond ETF (MUB), to its biggest discount in history.
In other words, you would buy $ 354.42 more of the International stock index
fund and
sell $ 107.58 worth of shares of the U.S. stock
fund and $ 246.84 of the
bonds, so that the percentages return to the original proportions, as shown in the value of the target asset allocation row.