Sentences with phrase «sovereign bond holdings»

This has fallen to around 16 % in 2011 and is likely to decline further as a result of losses on sovereign bond holdings, pressures on bank capital and increases in US$ funding costs.

As Russia and GLD have been demonstrating so aptly over the past 5 months, gold is not dilutable, and can not be contaminated with various Greek sovereign bond holdings.

Not exact matches

Especially now, with a third of the world's sovereign bonds carrying a negative yield, why would you want to hold foreign paper?

A survey last year by Mercer, a retirement and investment group, revealed that European pension funds would be inclined to raise their bond holdings when average long - term sovereign bond yields reached 2.8 percent.

It holds 21 sovereign bonds issued in U.S. dollars by countries like Mexico, Brazil, Russia and Korea.

So the competition offered by sovereign bonds to gold — the other save haven investment — is basically gone from a practical point of view for people who will hold gold or bonds.

In her July and October 2017 policy speeches, Fed Governor Brainard noted long - maturity Treasuries and long - term European sovereign bonds are «close substitutes,» and foreign central bank policies have held down term premia globally:

Applications for the latest «Sovereign Gold Bonds Scheme» will be accepted from April 16, 2018 through banks, Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL), designated post office branches and stock exchanges (BSE & NSE).

In equity the company invests primarily in large cap companies with growth tilt and in debt segment the top holdings are sovereign bond instruments.

There are several that hold high - yield bonds and emerging market debt, but I'm thinking of something more conservative, such as a fund that invests in the sovereign debt of developed countries.

Naturally, she believes ETFs that hold high - yield corporate bonds, emerging market sovereign debt or dividend - paying stocks are all better choices for long - term investors.

In other words, global sovereign bond index funds are few and far between, and I have never seen anyone recommend them as a core holding.

The bonds held are U.S. dollar denominated sovereign debt from emerging market issuers, and the currency is hedged back to Canadian dollars.

Eisman sees that as another woe for Europe's banks, who hold vast amounts of «sovereign bonds».

These firms, the Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management and Oaktree Capital Management among them, have been raising billions of dollars during Europe's sovereign debt crisis to buy loan portfolios, corporate bonds and other holdings from troubled financial institutions on the Continent.

Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high - yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).

Since the ECB holds no mandate to purchase sovereign bonds on primary markets, OMTs shall only affect secondary markets, so central banks may solely purchase sovereign bonds from resellers.

Parallel measures to ESM und EFSF such as the ex-ante unlimited purchase of sovereign bonds, the neutralization of interest spreads, the higher risk of suffering a haircut on debt, the possibility to hold sovereign bonds until they are due, and the influence on market indices and stock prices, as well as the intended persuasion of participants to purchase government bonds on the primary market, lead the BVerfG to redeem OMTs as such bypasses.