Not exact matches
Reduce your exposure to
stocks (and all interest - rate
sensitive assets like real estate) right now.
With a personalized portfolio of
stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange - traded funds, we'll help you invest your
assets or those of your trust using tax -
sensitive investment management techniques.
It may be somewhat useful to make comparisons to that period of time to see how certain interest rate
sensitive asset classes such as junk bonds, REITs, dividend - paying
stocks or bonds performed, but my guess is that particular environment doesn't do a great job of showing investors what a typical rising rate scenario would look like (assuming there is such a thing).
The three outcomes above would be surprises given consensus long positions in U.S.
stocks and other economically
sensitive assets, such as industrial commodities and corporate credit.
Similar to corporate bonds, preferred
stocks are
sensitive to changes in interest rates, however, also similar to equity, preferred
stocks exhibit more volatility than most fixed income
asset classes.
The performance of economically
sensitive assets such as
stocks tends to be the strongest during the early phase of the business cycle when growth is rising at an accelerating rate, then moderates through the other phases until returns generally decline during a recession.
It may simply reflect an economically
sensitive stock, or a company that's directly / indirectly leveraged to the market itself — like brokers, banks,
asset managers, private equity firms, etc..
Yield -
sensitive assets of all stripes — corporate bonds, Treasury bonds, munis, preferred shares, REITs — experienced the type of rapid wealth destruction that is more commonly associated with significant
stock slumps....
Majority of the rate
sensitive stocks came under pressure due to the rising bond yield, and I decided to go little deep into debt and accumulate some
assets.