Sentences with phrase «value than bonds»

STOCKS FLUCTUATE MORE IN VALUE than bonds, so you can calm down a stock portfolio by adding a small position in bonds.

If you can accept that, equities may be much better value than bonds.

Stocks in general still look more attractively valued than bonds, but certain stock segments offer more value than others.

Not exact matches

«If the company restructures or goes into bankruptcy, the recovery value of the bond is greater than the current price,» he wrote.)

Gifting «appreciated assets» — stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares that you've held for more than one year and that have increased in value — to charity often flies under the radar due to the popularity of cash donations.

But they threw off more cash than a bond and still increased in value.

Hamman said bond investors may value that more than total market returns.

The difference between the issue price and the face value is treated as tax - exempt income rather than as capital gains if the bonds are held to maturity.

In these cases, the difference between the bond's issue price (the discounted rate) and its face value would be considered tax - exempt income rather than capital gains.

More than half of the world's stocks, bonds, and real estate values exist outside of the United States.

That's boosting the outlook for inflation, causing the rout in bonds to deepen in Europe after more than $ 1 trillion was erased from the value of the global debt market.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

Banks receive government bonds or central bank deposits in exchange for their bad debts, accepted at face value rather than at «mark - to - market» prices.

If you buy a bond for less than face value on the secondary market (known as a market discount) and you either hold it until maturity or sell it at a profit, that gain will be subject to federal and state taxes.

Bondholders can still recoup their original costs if the value of the interest income the bond has generated is greater than the lost principal value.

But potential tax implications get trickier with bonds purchased in the secondary market at a premium or discount — in other words, investors that paid more or less than the face value of the bond.

If interest rates decline, however, bond prices usually increase, which means an investor can sometimes sell a bond for more than face value, since other investors are willing to pay a premium for a bond with a higher interest payment.

Yields and market values will fluctuate, and if sold prior to maturity, bonds may be worth more or less than the original investment.

Yet we also see very strong inflows into junk bond funds, based on the belief that these high yields represent value rather than information about default probabilities.

I'd probably call bonds a worse value right now than stocks and stocks are often called expensive.

''... though the value equation has usually shown equities to be cheaper than bonds, that result is not inevitable: When bonds are calculated to be the more attractive investment, they should be bought.»

Bonds may not offer tremendous nominal value, comparatively speaking, in the current market, but they do generally offer peace of mind and stability which, for some, may be more important than they currently realize.

I see the value in having a small bond allocation, but we're both so young that I would err on the side of accumulating more stocks than bonds at this stage.

And if the fiscal problem becomes unstable — more deficit to finance than security markets will allow, the Fed will obey its political masters and finance the deficit by a hyper - inflation, or hyper - tax, as a burgeoning inflation simply taxes all fixed dollar wealth — bonds, dollars, life insurance values, etc. — by the rate of price level increase.

In a difficult year for emerging markets securities, DBS raised $ 4.2 billion in 48 bonds, a higher value than any other bank in Singapore, and raised another $ 1.3 billion in 14 equity deals last year.

Barclays advised its clients on three M&A deals with a total value of $ 2.5 billion, a higher value than any other bank in Israel, and led the country's debt market by raising $ 1.4 billion in three bond deals.

Raiffeisen Bank International raised $ 3.8 billion in 24 bond deals last year, a greater value than any other bank in Austria, and it served as lead manager of a $ 5.9 billion Austrian sovereign bond.

KB Financial raised $ 13.1 billion in 182 bond deals for its clients in Korea, a higher value than any other bank in the country last year.

BNP Paribas advised its clients on 63 M&A deals worth $ 61.2 billion and raised $ 37.8 billion in 158 public bond deals — a higher overall value on both fronts than any other investment bank in France last year.

In the short run, rising equity values would tend to drive bond prices lower and bond yields higher than they otherwise might have been.

Even during the 1940's when bond yields were low, stocks were much better values than today, boosting long - term expected returns to about 6 percent.

As far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggests.

The table shows the average stock, bond and inflation conditions that have historically been associated with expected policy portfolio returns of greater than 10 % and less than 6 %, along with today's values for these conditions.

The Balanced Asset Class Index which included large caps, small caps, value stocks and bonds fared much better than the all - stock options and outperformed the other options over the full cycle 4 out of 5 times.

Stocks tend to offer higher returns than bonds in the long run, but they tend to be more volatile: they can gain or lose a lot of value in a short time.

If the bond included a «call provision,» the issuer can redeem it early, too — in order to issue new bonds at a lower interest rate, for example — but usually pays you a little more than the face value to do so.

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«In a minority of cases, activist hedge funds may bring some lasting value for shareholders but largely at the expense of workers and bond holders; thus the impact of activist hedge funds appears to take the form of wealth transfer rather than wealth creation.»

Lower rated bonds are subject to greater fluctuations in value and risk of loss of income and principal than higher rated bonds.

When a bond is selling at a premium, its current price is higher than its face value.

Last year, the Bitcoin Investment Trust more than doubled in value, while the yellow metal gained 8.73 percent; and both assets outperformed the S&P 500 and the twenty - year US Treasury bonds.

If you hold out until the bond matured, you'll be paid the face value of the bond, even though what you originally paid was less than face value.

In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury position.

The value of the equity risk premium (the higher returns from owning stocks rather than bonds or cash) has been in -LSB-...]

We define intrinsic value as the amount that would accrue to the owners of a security if the underlying company were sold to a rational and well - informed buyer, or the company was liquidated with the proceeds distributed to security holders, or where the particular security sells at a price that would yield no better than a security considered ultra-safe, such as a US Treasury note or bond» Lou Simpson

I grasp why a zero coupon bond would provide more value than a coupon payer.

«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....

I think he was valued more for his team bonding and human touch, rather than stunning footballing prowess, so now people have to change their view of him.

In the age of equality, breastfeeding is at risk of being seen as a tie, rather than a bond, a hindrance rather than a womanly art of value for mother and child.

Lawmakers project $ 30 million in revenue by recovering the value of bond premiums — money generated by borrowing more than needed at higher interest rates.