Sentences with phrase «yield bond funds lost»

(In 2008, for example, the average high - yield bond fund lost 26 %, not a whole lot more comforting the stock market's 37 % loss.)

Not exact matches

He lost money because a lot of other funds have made money gambling on corporate junk bonds that are yielding about 6.5 % now.

Also funds and ETFs that hold corporate bonds and hedge by selling treasury bond futures may lose value if the spread between corporate bond yields and treasury bond yields widens.

The BMO Floating Rate Income Fund, for example, lost more than 48 % in 2008 as high - yield bonds cratered along with stocks and real estate.

Here's the break - out, by fund inception date: Some observations: - Every fund listed (5 years or older) with current yields of 6 % or more, lost more than 20 % of its value in 2008, except three: PIMCO Income A PONAX, which lost only 6.0 %; TCW Total Return Bond I TGLMX, which lost only 6.2 % (in 1994); and First Eagle High Yield I FEHIX, which lost 15.8 %.

As interest rates go up, your bonds will lose value while your yield will not change (in a bond fund, your yield will rise slowly as the fund sells older bonds and buys new ones, but then you will realize capital losses along the way).

High yield corporate bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Bond Index have returned just under 5 % year to date but lost ground the past several days as fund outflows weigh on the market driving prices down and the weighted average yield (yield to worst) up by 22bps since last week to end at 4.yield corporate bonds tracked in the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Bond Index have returned just under 5 % year to date but lost ground the past several days as fund outflows weigh on the market driving prices down and the weighted average yield (yield to worst) up by 22bps since last week to end at 4.Yield Bond Index have returned just under 5 % year to date but lost ground the past several days as fund outflows weigh on the market driving prices down and the weighted average yield (yield to worst) up by 22bps since last week to end at 4.yield (yield to worst) up by 22bps since last week to end at 4.yield to worst) up by 22bps since last week to end at 4.88 %.

In the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, some high - yield and strategic bond funds lost 30 % or more, while higher - quality bonds, like short - term U.S. Treasury bonds, had gains.

There are a lot of desperate pension plans looking to make up for lost time, and hoping against hope, buying dividend paying and growth stocks, high - yield bonds, alternatives like hedge funds, private equity, etc., at the wrong time.

Yields will rise, and you will lose money as bond prices start to fall (unless you hold until maturity, but that is a different discussion of buying bonds versus bond funds).