Sentences with phrase «things bond investors»

I just think there are a few things bond investors need to understand about longer maturity bonds, so I was pointing out the possible risks.

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They get preoccupied with all sorts of things — elections, central bank policies, the weather — but nothing has dominated investor thinking as much lately as bond rates and income stocks.

Global uncertainty may not be a good thing for U.S. equities markets and exports, but it is driving investors toward U.S. bonds, according to Richard Clarida, global strategic advisor and managing director at Pimco.

Bonds issued to finance things like stadiums, replenishment of a municipality's underfunded pension plan, or investor - led housing are a few examples of issues that would not qualify for federal tax exemption.

Thriftiness is a virtue because costs are one of the few things that investors can control in their portfolios, particularly when stocks and bonds...

It involves such things as the development of customised bond market indexes, and efforts to remove the various small impediments that individual countries have managed, perhaps unintentionally, to put in the way of investors.

For bond investors with a medium - to long - term investment horizon, things are more complicated.

Top 5 things that rocked U.S. markets this week — a surge in bond yields sparked investor concerns, crude oil prices snap 2 - week winning streak, dollar extends rally, gold prices struggle, and Bitcoin update

To make things even more difficult, investors are increasingly buying to hold to maturity for the simple reason that if spreads are going to tighten, it is difficult to find a replacement once a bond is sold.

It may be somewhat useful to make comparisons to that period of time to see how certain interest rate sensitive asset classes such as junk bonds, REITs, dividend - paying stocks or bonds performed, but my guess is that particular environment doesn't do a great job of showing investors what a typical rising rate scenario would look like (assuming there is such a thing).

Although there will still be some amount of buying and selling in the portfolio during that time (for instance, to deal with things like new investors buying into the fund or selling a bond with a declining credit profile), it should be less than what would be experienced in a traditional bond mutual fund.

The yields on these bonds reflect investor expectations about many things, such as future growth rates and inflation.

I think it's a very careless time for equity and bond investors from a longer term perspective whereas those of us who are Austrian have a bend for the idea of real money, sound money, and one of the things that looks pretty attractive in a Ponzi finance global macroeconomic backdrop would be precious metals I would say.

Our first sure thing was that the Federal Reserve would continue to raise interest rates in 2017, leading many to recommend investors limit their bond holdings to the shortest maturities.

One of the good things about global uncertainty is that investors seek the security of bonds, thereby lowering bond yields.

The first thing investors, especially retail investors, should remember is that bonds and bond funds are not fixed deposits.

Deciding on the right asset allocation can cause investors a lot of grief — far too much, in fact, since there is no such thing as a perfect mix of stocks and bonds.

Matt Tucker explores common misconceptions about bond exchange traded funds and provides three things every investor should know about this investment vehicle.

The presence of discount bonds can indicate many things, such as predictions of falling dividends or a reluctance to buy on the part of the investors.

For bond investors with a medium - to long - term investment horizon, things are more complicated.

While time is passing, many things can happen to interest rates or to the bond issuer (whoever borrowed the money from investors in the first place) to affect the value of the bonds.

The same thing can happen in reverse, and sometimes investors will buy bonds for above par value, reducing the yield.

Matt Tucker explores common misconceptions about bond exchange traded funds and provides three things every investor should know...

Therefore, investors should be aware of a few things before purchasing a bond.

In the MCT scheme of things, the entire investment process (including the management of companies) revolves around the needs and desires of Outside, Passive, Minority Investors (OPMIs) who can never have special knowledge of anything, or control of anything, and whose needs and desires are fulfilled by continuously outperforming, in the stock or bond market, similarly situated OPMIs, risk adjusted.

This is confusing for many people — after all, investors regularly complain that bond yields are low, so shouldn't higher interest rates be a good thing?

While bond investors can usually expect to get both the promised interest payments and their principal back at maturity, that isn't a sure thing with so - called junk bonds, which are issued by companies with shaky finances.

One thing I'm trying to figure out is the set of tools an individual investor needs to invest in bonds globally.

When I was an actuary interacting with the investment department inside a life insurance company, one of the things that I learned early was that there was an inpenetrable jargon on the part of the bond investors that neophytes had to learn.

Non-traditional bonds provide a hedge against a rise in interest rates, so investors naturally were looking for a way to avoid what was initially thought to be a sure thing in 2014 — rising rates.

The unfortunate thing is that most investors strictly focus on Treasuries and bread - n - butter investment grade corporate bonds.

For investors, here are some things to consider when a bond's rating is raised or lowered:

And that's because investors in the marketplace, whether it's an equity security, a bond security or any asset class, tend to price these things into the price of that asset class.

This blog is here for us to share our views on the things that matter to bond investors — inflation, interest rates and the global economy — as well as to talk about the bond markets themselves.

It's the same thing with the price of a bond because the amount a bond investor gets paid (usually) is fixed.