Not exact matches
«The biggest challenge is delevering, but it presents the opportunity of borrowing at a lower
rate of
interest,» Gross said, noting that investors must be sure that the assets they're buying this
year are creditworthy and present low risk
exposure.
If your business is considering funding for important projects this
year, you may be considering ways to hedge
interest rate exposure.
Shunning Treasury bonds in the first half of the
year and lightening up on
interest -
rate exposure turned out to be mistakes, he wrote.
I continue to expect that we will gradually increase our
exposure to inflation - protected securities and commodities on substantial weakness in these areas, but as inflation pressures are most likely still several
years away, our primary concern here is with fresh credit weakness, and that concern still translates into a moderate
exposure to
interest rate fluctuations.
Scenario: an institution plans to establish a 90,000 DV01 risk
exposure in the dollar denominated 10
year interest rates sector (basically the portfolio would gain or lose $ 90,000 for every one basis point, or 0.01 %, change in the 10
year sector).
Dividend focused strategies as well as strategies offering
exposure to alternative income sources have become popular and proliferated over the past few
years given the low
interest rate environment.
Falling US$ when (US govt impotence, China revalues yuan, Fed starts the printing presses again, zero
interest rate policy for x
years) = Gold rises = Commodities rise = US stocks on sale (especially one's with global
exposure) = US exports rise = US profits rise = inflation rises.
Similarly, fixed - income markets experienced losses for the quarter, as the yield on the 10 -
Year Treasury soared nearly 20 % to a high of 2.95 % in late February.E Spreads widened and
interest -
rate - sensitive
exposures declined in value.
And so maybe the
interest rate exposure of that portfolio is three or four
years, as opposed to a 10
year Treasury, which has an
interest rate exposure of nine and a half
years.