Sentences with phrase «so bond losses»

And rising interest rates usually reflect a booming economy, so bond losses could be offset by gains on the equity side of the portfolio.

Not exact matches

Geithner and Obama lobbied the IMF and ECB shamelessly to bail out Greece, simply so that it could pay bondholders, because U.S. banks had issued credit default insurance (CDS) against Greek bonds and were on the hook for a big loss if a default occurred.

I would be interested if you could compare your 60/40 mix to a 60/40 mix using 5 - year bonds that are laddered so that they can be held to maturity and used when needed as they mature, and therefore never need to be sold at a loss.

In a diversified portfolio you use your bonds to buy stocks (or for spending purposes if taking distributions from your portfolio) when the stock market falls so you aren't forced to sell your stocks at a low point in the cycle and lock in losses.

Investors typically own short - term bond funds as a low - risk vehicle to preserve their principal, so losses in this segment tend to be more upsetting than a downturn in investments such as stock funds where volatility can be expected.

For example, things like stocks, bonds, and other investment property are capital assets, so if you receive virtual currency from selling these items, you will be taxed on the capital gains / loss.

So to earn slightly better performance numbers, an investor would have had to deal with much higher volatility and much larger losses in long bonds.

So much for limited losses last week as the Bond took out my lower weekly boundary projection (148-12/10).

So it is natural that during women's pregnancy her partner losses little bit of his strong male attitude and gains more nurturing nature which of course helps a lot for paternal bond process.

So many PAL moms really struggle to bond with their babies during pregnancy after loss.

We always hear the good things about breastfeeding — how breast is best for baby, how it benefits in so many ways, how it can speed that weight loss and help you bond with your baby.

Moreover, during the course of such drastic sellout, the price for US bonds will most likely drop temporarily, so the seller would suffer additional losses.

Paul Rudd plays Henry, the guy struggling to get over the loss of his bride - to - be, but the movie doesn't put his character and Longoria Parker's Kate in any scenes together before she dies, so we don't see any bond between them.

The film also directly follows the events of Casino Royale, and so Bond spends a lot of time brooding about the loss of Vesper Lynd, and lusting for revenge.

And when equities do suffer a correction, bonds will likely offset some of those losses, becoming expensive as they do so.

So in an intermediate - term bond fund, with an average duration of four to five years, the loss would be about 4 % to 5 %.

What's often forgotten is that one usually comes at the expense of the other: bonds with higher coupons can bring a capital loss, stocks with higher dividends may experience slower growth, and so on.

You should also rebalance periodically, so that gains or losses in different parts of your portfolio don't push your stocks - bonds mix too far from your target mix.

Keep in mind that a bond fund will eventually recover the loss because of the higher rate, so it's not something to worry a lot about in the long term, but you will come out ahead with the CD because of the limited downside of 1.25 % in doing an early withdrawal to reinvest at the higher rate.

So we the taxpayers are going to eat a ton of bank losses that should instead be borne first by stockholders and bondholders This program should be labeled the Pimco bailout plan, since the giant bond fund holds a lot of bank debt.

It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.

Without getting too deep in the weeds, we should recognize something about bonds — as interest rates rise bond duration declines (bond duration is the bond's price sensitivity to interest rate changes so, a 1 % rise in rates will result in a 5 % loss for a bond with a duration of 5).

Remember that the investor lost their stock and bond exposure so now they suffer an even greater loss since roughly 66 % of their portfolio (as assets not dollars) is now gold and real estate.

I've held XSB and XBB before and I'm not a huge fan of them because they don't necessarily hold their bonds until maturity (especially the long term fund), so you face realized capital losses when then sell bonds to maintain their duration range.

These bonds have at least four years of seasoning, so the loss rates are very predictable, and are very unlikely to spike by that much.

So a short - term bond fund will not be subject to large gains or losses due to rate changes, an intermediate - term bond fund will be subject to moderate gains or losses, and a long - term bond fund will be subject to the largest gains or losses.

For important investment goals, investors tend to prefer conservative investment strategies, and they favor bonds over stocks, (the amount by which they do so would, of course, depend on the extent of their loss aversion), while for very ambitious goals, investors are willing to take more risk.

Bond funds on the other hand never mature, so they loose when rates pump and force you to dump at a loss.

It is fine to expect 4.5 % or so from long - term corporate bonds, but you will have capital losses if interest rates increase.

Similarly, you can be pretty confident that your cash investments (which are, in effect, just very short - term bonds) won't fall in value, so they too can stem your portfolio's loss.

Tobacco settlement municipal bonds have had a good September so far helping to offset serious losses seen during the quarter.

Unlike individual bonds, many fixed income ETFs do not have a maturity date, so a strategy of holding a fixed income security until maturity to try to avoid losses associated with bond price volatility is not possible with those types of ETFs.

One is to use GICs instead of bond funds: GICs always trade at par, so they have lower interest payments and never suffer capital losses.

You don't have to sell your bond, of course, but suppose you need some cash, so after three years you sell your $ 1,000 bond for $ 900, taking a $ 100 loss.

It's only accurate to use these sheets when the investment vehicle only earns interest, and has no possibility for any profit or loss (so don't use it for any kind of bonds, including zero coupon bonds, unless you're assuming they'll be held until maturity).

Most of the so - called inverted credit curves are concentrated in securities firms, banks and bond insurers that reported more than $ 100 billion in losses on mortgages to borrowers with poor credit.

HESAA, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, works toward minimizing financial losses and keep bonds funded, regardless of the means used to do so.

So you should think of bonds as providing a bit of a cushion against stock setbacks, not total immunization from losses.

So, for example, if you've decided to invest your $ 250,000 in a mix of 60 % stocks and 40 % bonds, each month you might move $ 12,500 into stocks and $ 8,333 into bonds, which, ignoring any investment gains or losses, would leave you with $ 150,000 in stocks and $ 100,000 in bonds after 12 months.

Unlike individual bonds, most bond funds do not have a maturity date, so holding them until maturity to avoid losses caused by price volatility is not possible.

Unlike individual bonds, most bond funds do not have a maturity date, so avoiding losses caused by price volatility by holding them until maturity is not possible.

They assume insurers have bonds which they will hold until maturity, so unrealized gains / losses in the investment portfolio are not relevant, which is all true for most insurers.

Nielsen says the big difference between losing a pet, compared to losing a human, is that «much of society is not aware of the strength of the human - animal bond, so pet loss is often seen as «disenfranchised loss,» meaning it is not socially recognized.»

So the plaintiffs in this case need to either (a) show actual damages, or (b) convince the court under the applicable standard of proof that they will suffer damages and they are likely to prevail on the merits of the case, and possibly secure a bond for the losses to the defendants in the meantime.

Adults who have never addressed problems with attachment and who see the result of attachment issues in their lives might, in treatment, identify and explore early losses, grieve for the childhood bonds that were not experienced, and gain closure while learning how to develop healthy attachments and accept love, if they have difficulty doing so.

To the extent that professional incompetence in diagnosing narcissistic and borderline personality processes involved in a cross-generational parent - child coalition causes developmental, emotional, and psychological harm to the child client through the loss of an affectionally bonded attachment relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent (i.e., the parent who is rejected by the child as a result of the undiagnosed and so untreated psychopathology and pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / (borderline) allied and supposedly «favored» parent within the parent - child coalition), this may represent negligent professional practice that is directly responsible for causing harm to the client.