He set up a bond ladder by
staggering the maturity of his bond holdings.
Staggering the maturities of your fixed - income holdings to take advantage of rising interest rates (bond ladder).
The concept of
staggering the maturity of your bonds is the final, and crucial step to creating a truly boring, sleep - at - night portfolio that is still capable of a cash yield approximately 5 % above the inflation rate.
MBIA minimizes its exposure to interest rate risk through active portfolio management to ensure a proper mix of the types of securities held and to
stagger the maturities of its fixed - income securities.
A laddered bond portfolio, which
staggers the maturity of the bonds and reinvests the proceeds at regular intervals, is a good start, but you need to diversify beyond that.
Not exact matches
You can adjust to the lock - up periods
of CDs by creating a «ladder,» which is buying CDs at
staggering maturities whether it's over several months or years.
Bond Ladder Tool Create a consistent stream
of income by purchasing bonds with
staggered maturities.
A laddered preferred portfolio uses the same concept as bond laddering, where a portfolio is constructed with instruments
of staggering maturities so that a fixed portion
of the portfolio matures each year.
Much the same way you'd create a bond ladder with various
maturities, when writing a portfolio
of covered calls you may want to
stagger your expiration dates across a few months, with a possible bias towards the near term (since time decay is better for the option writer on the shorter duration options).
The RBC ETF seeks to provide unitholders with exposure primarily to the performance
of a diversified portfolio
of Canadian corporate and government bonds, divided («laddered») into five groupings with
staggered maturities from one to five years, that will provide regular income while preserving capital.
A
staggered bond portfolio
of ultra-short
maturity high - yield bonds
of less than seven years will give you a solid, almost bulletproof portfolio with yields exceeding 6 % to 17 % a year.
A CD ladder is a set
of CDs with
staggered maturity dates.
A laddering strategy entails
staggering the
maturity dates
of investments so that a portion
of the portfolio matures each year — or more frequently for people that need it.
Laddering involves building a portfolio
of bonds with
staggered maturities so that a portion
of the portfolio will mature each year.
A bond ladder contains bonds
of relatively equal amounts with
staggered maturities.
When you «ladder», you
stagger the
maturities on a series
of investments (as with bonds or GICs).
Of course, you can limit your exposure to surrender penalties by investing in several CDs with
staggered maturity dates.
Given the limited number
of bond terms, and therefore difficulty setting up a bond ladder with such bonds, many use a TIPS fund rather than buy individual securities, but diversification
of TIPS is not required either if you do not need
staggered maturities (a bond ladder).
Reinvestment risk, or the risk
of reinvesting when interest rates are low, is alleviated by the
staggered maturity dates.
Bond Ladder Tool Create a consistent stream
of income by purchasing bonds with
staggered maturities.
This portfolio is comprised
of individual bonds where each bond or series
of bonds features strategically
staggered maturity dates at regular intervals.
If Option A is chosen then the
Staggered Payouts are paid as and when they fall due and the remaining Sum Assured is paid on
maturity or else under Option B, 105 %
of the Sum Assured is paid on
maturity.
One
of the best pieces
of advice I have to offer is to
stagger your term
maturities.
This payout received is the
Maturity Benefit
staggered over 6 years after the end
of the Policy Tenure.
Scenario A - Payout on
Maturity: The guaranteed staggered payout benefits are paid out as 7.5 %, 7.5 %, 10 %, 10 % in the first 4 years before the policy maturity date and the balance 65 % of the Sum Assured on the policy maturi
Maturity: The guaranteed
staggered payout benefits are paid out as 7.5 %, 7.5 %, 10 %, 10 % in the first 4 years before the policy
maturity date and the balance 65 % of the Sum Assured on the policy maturi
maturity date and the balance 65 %
of the Sum Assured on the policy
maturitymaturity date.