Sentences with phrase «yield bond returns»

Future high yield bond returns will likely be more muted — and depend more on improving fundamentals than commodity prices.

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Not exact matches

«Do you really want to take a 2.5 % annual return for 40 years, if you're thinking about current bond yields?

He says that if you can get only a 2 % return on bonds — rates we're seeing today — and 5.5 % yields on blue - chip stocks like BCE, it makes sense to overweight stocks, no matter what your age.

If interest rates rise and push that risk - free rate of return higher, then those dividend stocks and high - yield bonds are vulnerable.

Also, as bond rates rise, some of the money that migrated over from the bond market in search of higher yields will return to the safety of fixed income.

In other words, because investors can not generate a sufficient return from low - yielding bonds, they turn to stocks as their only alternative.

Gundlach predicts that both high - yield bonds and a portfolio of mortgage - backed securities could return about 6 percent in 2013.

The gap between the 10 - year French and German government bond yields has widened to a five - day high as political uncertainty returned to France.

With bond yields globally in the dumps, Singapore's wealth fund GIC is looking at unconventional sources for fixed income returns, Liew Tzu Mi, GIC's chief investment officer for fixed income, said on Thursday.

Bond yields move inversely to prices; as a bond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon paymeBond yields move inversely to prices; as a bond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon paymebond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon payments.

When bond yields rise, investors often start weighing whether stocks are the only game in town for return.

«If we assume extremely pessimistic nominal earnings growth of 3 % over the coming decade and a compression in the price - earnings ratio to 10, equities would still deliver returns above current bond yields.

«But due to the low coupons prevailing, even a gradual rise in yields will result in negative returns on a wide range of government bonds over the coming quarters.»

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

The Vanguard High Yield Corporate Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return of 0.5 percent in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.

That's because low bond yields reduce the odds that you will earn a return that keeps pace with inflation in coming years.

With equity valuations at historic highs and government bonds barely eking out a return, junk bonds offer solid yields at a good price, he reasons.

While it's better to invest than keep money under a mattress, buying risk free securities, such as guaranteed income certificates or low - yielding government bonds, could actually be riskier than purchasing higher returning products, says Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of Toronto's TriDelta Financial Partners.

These mutual funds have promised higher yields and better returns than bond - only funds, and for the most part they have delivered.

Most investors shy away from bonds because they yield (or return) less than equities and tend to be more complex in nature.

The yield on a Treasury bill represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator of the government debt situation.

Yield to maturity (YTM) is the total return anticipated on a bond if the bond is held until it matures.

the percentage of return an investor receives based on the amount invested or on the current market value of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate; yield stated is the yield to worst — the yield if the worst possible bond repayment takes place, reflecting the lower of the yield to maturity or the yield to call based on the previous close

Yes this is possible in any given year, but over the longer term bonds generally return close to their yields.

-LSB-...] the long - term returns on bonds will certainly be lower than average based on the current yields.

Compare that to the holder of a high yield bond who can ignore the ravings of Mr. Market and sit tight until normality returns.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

Also, here's a good one on the potential for lower bond returns using a historical period for the lower yield environment you talked about:

The blue line shows the same 10 year treasury yield from the WSJ chart, while the red line shows the subsequent one year total return on the 10 year bond.

High - yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year -yield bonds delivered another year of strong performance in 2017, with the benchmark Bloomberg Barclays US Corporate High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year -Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index returning 7.2 % as we approached year - end.

In the credit markets, both investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds had negative returns for the first time in eight quarters, with down - in - quality subsectors in each unconventionally outperforming higher quality ones.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

In viewing your chart in one of your other posts regarding the long term returns of long bonds when current yield is under 3 %, why would I want to diversify into almost certain loss, after effects of inflation?

With my personal investment return goal of 3X the risk - free rate of return (10 - year bond yield), anything above 6 % looks attractive, depending on risk.

Based on BlackRock's long - term assumptions, some of the better return - to - risk ratios are in high yield bonds, EM dollar - denominated debt and bank loans.

More interesting is the return on the BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Energy Bond index, which has a whopping 18.26 % return YTD, but over the past year still has a negative 15.65 % return.

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Bonds can still serve a purpose in a diversified portfolio, but it's unlikely they will enhance your returns until we see much higher yields.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 - 10 % return going forward.

Although they are not as egregiously expensive as 10 - year Swiss government bonds — currently trading at a yield of negative 0.25 % — Canadian bonds are offering a relatively paltry real return, even after adjusting for low inflation.

And even if the indicator was valid (counterfactually), the article asks readers to accept as given that earnings are properly reported here, that they will grow by nearly 50 % over the coming year, and that investors are willing to key the long - term return they require from stocks to the yield on 10 - year bonds, which has been abnormally depressed in a flight to safety.

The goal of yield maintenance is to allow the conduit lender to reinvest the money returned from the borrower, plus a penalty fee, into bonds or other investments and receive the same cash flow as if the loan hadn't been paid off early.

As of this writing, the 10 year Japanese and German bonds are yielding negative returns.

In all likelihood, rates will eventually go higher, and US bond funds could yield negative returns.

Real bond returns have been high over the past 30 years or so because nominal starting yields were high and inflation has fallen.

As ZIRP sent bond yields south, investors piled into dividend - paying stocks as a way to generate returns.

Over the long term the nominal return on a duration - managed bond portfolio (or bond index — the duration on those doesn't change very much) converges on the starting yield.

They can track the amount of return, or yield, they're getting on a bond.