These investors also tend to have a much longer investment horizon and lower return hurdles than shorter -
term bond fund managers or leveraged investors.
These investors also tend to have a much longer investment horizon and lower return hurdles than shorter -
term bond fund managers or leveraged investors.
Not exact matches
To reduce the risk of capital losses, sell
bonds and
bond funds with a 10 - year - plus time horizon and buy short - term notes instead, says Dominic Bellissimo, a portfolio manager with Dynamic F
funds with a 10 - year - plus time horizon and buy short -
term notes instead, says Dominic Bellissimo, a portfolio
manager with Dynamic
FundsFunds.
Certainly, it offers an attractive level for longer -
term investors such as pension and insurance
funds to lock in a relatively decent yield, and will tempt some portfolio
managers to buy
bonds rather than equities.
Fund manager Julian Potenza says long -
term bonds still have a role to play in a diversified portfolio.
While she expected that
bond yields might not fall too much near
term as
managers would need to allocate some
funds to cash
bonds, swaps and futures would likely remain under pressure.
In the old days of
bond investing, you would pick a
bond fund with a narrowly defined mandate, like «medium -
term corporates,» and the
bond manager would spend his life trying to outperform the stated benchmark.
Bill Gross, an influential
bond fund manager, tells Bloomberg that he expects rates to tread water for the near
term.
The
funds are designed to deliver regular income or capital growth over a long -
term period and cover
bonds, Europe, Far East, Multi -
Manager / Multi-Asset, Specialist, the UK and the US.
Hence the
fund managers adopting Duration strategy invest in Long
Term bonds so that they can benefit from any fall in interest rates.
In pursuing income, the
fund's
managers have the flexibility to invest across the fixed income spectrum, including Treasuries, mortgage - backed securities, corporate
bonds and floating - rate
term loans.
Investors and
fund managers search for yield, extend maturities, reach for lower credit quality and shift assets from short
term floating rate money market
funds to
bonds,
bond funds and similar investments.
Make sure you understand what kind of
bonds are contained within the
fund and if the
fund manager is forced to hold long -
term bonds or if they have total flexibility with the holdings.
2) If you're considering a
bond fund, if the
fund includes long -
term bonds and if so, if the
manager has discretion to move into shorter -
term bonds;
Duane McAllister, CFA, is a Senior Portfolio
Manager with Baird Advisors and leads the team that manages the Short -
Term Municipal
Bond Fund and the Core Intermediate Municipal
Bond Fund, both available through Baird
Funds.
Selecting 3 or 4 stock and
bond index mutual
funds is enough to outperform most active
managers and robos over the long
term, and you will save more money with reduced
fund expenses, lower turnover, and no ETF - related costs.
If the
fund's name includes the
term, it means the
fund's
managers or sponsors feel they can enhance returns and / or reduce the risks of their
funds by switching back and forth among stocks,
bonds and cash equivalents, often using a so - called «black box,» a computer program that makes trading decisions based on a pre-selected set of rules for interpreting financial statistics.
A good
bond manager has already decreased the portfolio duration (selling long
term bonds to buy more short
term bonds) to make sure that the
bond fund doesn't drop drastically.
Mr. Bohlin manages the Thornburg Limited
Term Income
Fund and the Limited
Term U.S. Government
Fund; Mr. Strickland is
manager of the Thornburg Municipal
Bond Portfolio.
Managers in the intermediate -
term actively managed
bond category saw the most substantial improvement in their one - year success rate; 85 % of these
funds survived and outperformed their passive peers.
The investment
manager for the stable value
fund invests in a portfolio of intermediate
term bonds with an average duration of approximately three to four years that will provide a significantly higher interest rate, or yield, than for example the short -
term (average 60 days or less) securities typically held by a money market
fund.
Sean Corcoran has been appointed portfolio
manager and joins Franco Castagliuolo as co-
manager on Fidelity Advisor Mortgage Securities
Fund (with retail and Advisor share classes), Fidelity GNMA
Fund, Fidelity Government Income
Fund (with retail and Advisor share classes), Fidelity Inflation - Protected
Bond Fund (with retail and Advisor share classes), Fidelity Intermediate Government Income
Fund, and Fidelity Limited
Term Government
Fund.
PIMCO Total Return
Fund leverages the firm's time - tested investment process, vast global resources and expertise of three industry - renowned portfolio
managers to actively seek diverse sources of returns from higher - quality, intermediate
term bonds.
Kneeland is a new entry at the top of our ranking, debuting as a Citywire AAA - rated
manager for his impressive Transamerica Short -
Term Bond fund.
Fixed - income investors and large
bond fund managers are buying CRE - CLOs, which is creating a permanent
term financing tool for bridge lenders, notes Felix Gutnikov, a principal and executive vice president of origination at Thorofare Capital, a loan origination and servicing company.
Fixed - income investors and large
bond fund managers are buying CRE - CLOs, which is creating a permanent
term financing tool for bridge lenders.