With duration in mind,
which bond segments should investors consider in a potentially rising interest rate environment?
Not exact matches
It may be that stock investors figure that most of the problems in the junk
bond market are in the energy
segment,
which accounts for about 17 % of the market.
As
bond yields surged on Friday, high - yielding
segments of the equity market such as utilities and REITs came under the most pressure,
which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rally.
Keep in mind the goals of diversifying among market
segments,
which is to reduce the major risks of the major asset classes (stock market risk for stocks and interest rate risk for
bonds).
«A
segment of your portfolio is invested in
bonds,
which usually increase in value during a bear market.
Other factors also impact portfolio performance; most notably, the specific market
segments in
which it is invested — durations of junk
bond funds will exceed durations of treasury funds with similar maturities.
«The Queen has made her first cinematic appearance — in the
Bond movie
segment — and deepened the admiration in
which she is held in Britain and around the world,» the London mayor wrote in the Telegraph.
Through these experiments, Ruike identified three main parameters that give kirigami films their adhesive properties: shear - lag, in
which shear deformation of film can reduce the strain on other parts of the film; partial debonding, in
which the film
segments around an open slit maintain a partial
bond to the underlying surface; and inhomogenous deformation, in
which a film can maintain its overall adhesion, even as parts of its underlying surface may bend and stretch more than others.
And then it's on to The patented Watch List, in
which the boys get into more James
Bond titles, some «un-Spielbergian» releases, the latest news from the Adam Sandler front, mishandled ghosts and very early Joseph Gordon - Levitt love — spiraling downwards into our own version of a «versus»
segment: Kathleen Turner vs. Anne Hathaway.
Relative to corporate
bonds this
segment of the municipal
bond market has longer durations and higher coupons
which both contribute to positive price movement as rates move down.
The French word for «slice», tranche usually refers to part,
segment or portion of an investment issue such as a specific class of
bond or mortgage backed security within an offering in
which each tranche offers different terms including varying degrees of risk.