Sentences with phrase «sovereign bond investments»

«Global Footprint Network has extensive experience in measuring ecological risks at the country level, specifically as it relates to their incorporation into sovereign bond investments and credit ratings.»

We believe valuations of select emerging - country equity and sovereign bond investments remain attractive relative to those available in developed markets.

Not exact matches

Russ Koesterich, BlackRock's chief investment strategist, recommended emerging market sovereign bonds because of the relatively low debt of the countries issuing them.

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.

Use limit orders to trade funds such as the VanEck Vectors EM Investment Grade + BB Rated USD Sovereign Bond ETF (IGEM), due to their double - digit market spreads.

In response, some central banks have turned to unconventional tools like quantitative easing (QE), where a central bank purchases sovereign bonds in an effort to drive down interest rates and drive up consumer spending and capital investment.

The iShares Intermediate Credit Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of USD - denominated investment grade corporate, sovereign, supranational, local authority and non-US agency debt with maturities between 1 - 10 years.

A jump in sovereign yields could spark European credit market outflows, hurting richer investment grade bonds.

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.

And on the list of possible investments are also high yield corporate bonds and, perhaps, some emerging market sovereign bonds.

«Commentators have noted that a loan to an underwater bank is a long - shot investment whose substantial downside easily justifies a 15 % to 20 % return, comparable to the rates charged on risky sovereign bonds.

Citi raised $ 17.7 billion in 114 public bond deals in Latin America last year, more than any other investment bank, including an $ 800 million sovereign bond for Brazil that was more than three times oversubscribed.

White & Case partner in Dubai Debashis Dey said if the sovereign issuances come to an end then sukuk could grow as investors look for other investment opportunities other than conventional bonds.

In late October, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) decided to keep Portugal's sovereign rating at investment grade, maintaining the country's BBB (low) rating with a «stable» outlook on the back of its progress in reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sector.

Little did anyone know that what Peter Obi called cash - in - hand were basically investment in stocks, bonds and other non-performing equities arranged by Obi in his final days in office; long - term uncompleted assets that will not earn cash until they are completed; various sums spent in rehabilitating federal roads in the State for which re-imbursements may come in the distant future; computation of the State's share of the Excess Crude Account contributed as capital to the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund in 2010, etc..

The components of the S&P Canada Aggregate Bond Index are all wider by an average of 29 bps as of March 6, 2015; S&P Canada Sovereign Bond Index (28 bps), S&P Canada Provincial & Municipal Bond Index (32bps), S&P Canada Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index (26 bps), and S&P Canada Collateralized Bond Index (32 bps).

The investment universe for this strategy considers both tax - exempt municipal bonds as well as US dollar - denominated taxable fixed income securities, including governments, corporate bonds, asset backed securities and sovereign and supranational entities and taxable municipals.

Looking both within and outside of the benchmark, the Fund seeks relative value opportunities across traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors, also including nontraditional asset classes like non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt, convertibles, and floating - rate loans.

We also compared the five - year annualized volatilities of the S&P Pan Asia Bond Index (denominated in USD) with other major bond markets, such as the U.S. treasury, U.S. investment grade corporate, U.S. high yield corporate, Eurozone sovereign and Australian bond markets, see the exhibit beBond Index (denominated in USD) with other major bond markets, such as the U.S. treasury, U.S. investment grade corporate, U.S. high yield corporate, Eurozone sovereign and Australian bond markets, see the exhibit bebond markets, such as the U.S. treasury, U.S. investment grade corporate, U.S. high yield corporate, Eurozone sovereign and Australian bond markets, see the exhibit bebond markets, see the exhibit below.

Some of the outperformers are the S&P Eurozone Developed Sovereign Bond Index (up 11.98 %), the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index (up 7.71 %) and the S&P China Government Bond Index (up 10.35 %).

With a portfolio composed of investment - grade debt from corporate, sovereign and supranational issuers with three - year maximum maturities, the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: CSJ) aims to offer a higher distribution yield than comparable all - Treasury funds, but it does have a marginally higher credit risk.

This benchmark index is a market - cap - weighted aggregation of the individual components, of which sovereign bonds (federal bonds) have returned 2.47 %, provincial & Municipal bonds have returned 3.68 %, investment - grade corporate bonds have returned 3.04 %, and collateralized bonds have returned 1.25 %, as of June 13, 2016.

A broad ensemble of global income investments, the Fund seeks value opportunities across both traditional investment - grade and high - yield bond sectors and nontraditional asset classes, including convertibles, preferred stocks, non-U.S. sovereign and corporate debt and floating - rate loans.

The S&P Global Developed Aggregate Ex-Collateralized Bond Index (USD), which seeks to track the performance of investment - grade debt issued by sovereign, quasi-sovereign, foreign government, and corporate entities in developed countries, delivered a total return of 7.64 % in 2017.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

So he recommends allocating funds across a range of fixed - income investments, including emerging markets, high yield, investment grade, floating rate securities, and global sovereign bonds.

The Citigroup World Government Bond Index (WGBI) measures the performance of fixed - rate, local currency, investment grade sovereign bonds.

These sectors are U.S. Treasurys, global treasurys ex-U.S., U.S. investment - grade corporate bonds, U.S. mortgage - backed securities, U.S. high - yield corporate bonds and emerging market sovereign debt.

Government bond investments are anchored by Argo's proprietary Sovereign Risk Rating Model.

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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).

Physical gold, gold ETFs, Sovereign Gold Bonds are the various options for investment in gold.

US and non-US sovereigns, agencies, residential and commercial mortgage - backed securities, asset - backed securities, investment and non-investment grade corporates, convertible bonds and emerging market debt