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Finally, investors who would like to access investment grade or high yield bonds through more defensive exposure may want to consider iShares Edge Investment Grade Enhanced Bond ETF (IGEB), or iShares Edge High Yield Defensive Bond ETF (HYDB).

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The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

«What we noticed in January was that stocks and bond yields wanted to run through their year - end targets» to start off 2018, said John Augustine, chief investment officer at Huntington Private Bank.

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.

When Grogan has made shifts, which have usually involved purchasing real estate or bond investments, she has financed them either through new savings or by selling stocks that have already yielded high profits.

Attract a wider array of capital to clean energy investments by developing innovative financing structures — from reducing investment risk though our Catalytic Finance Initiative to engaging individual investors through our Socially Responsible Investing platform to building new markets for green bonds, yield - cos and other vehicles.

Let me remind you that monetary policy operates with a long lag and there are many transmission channels through which interest rate changes affect the economy, including longer - term bond yields and the exchange rate.

These steps include: efforts to simplify prospectus requirements for retail vanilla bonds and ease the personal liability of company directors; improving market transparency through the RBA's publication of new measures of corporate bond yields; the lengthening of the government bond curve; and the listing of certain fixed - income securities on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

A 3 - 5 % yield (achieved through dividend stocks or, most likely, bonds) is the number I use to calculate my estimated yearly retirement income.

Blackrock Muni Yield Investment Quality (MFT) is a closed end fund that seeks current income exempt from regular Federal income tax through investment in insured investment grade municipal bonds.

Franklin Limited Duration Income (FTF) is a closed end fund that seeks high current income and capital appreciation through investment in high yield corporate bonds, floating rate bank loans and mortgage and other asset backed securities.

Tactically, now may be an appropriate time to consider taking on more interest rate risk; nominal yields on government bonds look attractive and we believe can persist through the quarter.

Their data set included constituents of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch investment - grade (US Corporate Master Index) and high - yield (US High Yield Master Index) bond indexes, and covers the period January 1997 through December yield (US High Yield Master Index) bond indexes, and covers the period January 1997 through December Yield Master Index) bond indexes, and covers the period January 1997 through December 2016.

The 10 - year US bond yield breaking through the 3 per cent danger level worries India, as it does every emerging market.

For example, investors might use the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) to gain access to greater credit risk through an ETF focused on bonds rated BB and B, and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) to gain access to less credit risk through an ETF focused on bonds rated A and BBB.

A bond's yield to maturity calculation provides you with the total return you would receive if the bond was held through its maturity date.

Mrs Merkel — or La Signora No in Italy — doused hopes of a break - through on proposals by the «Latin Bloc» leaders of Italy, France, and Spain to deploy the funds (EFSF and ESM) to cap the bond yields of «virtuous» countries vulnerable to contagion, or to recapitalize banks directly to take the strain off sovereign states.

The world's biggest wealth fund is for now sticking to an overweight position in the shorter bond maturities as the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield has broken through the 3 percent threshold for the first time since 2014.

Bonds have been through a 30 - year bull market, and the yields are very low.

Since the September low point last year US 10 - Year bond yields have risen 90bps, this compares to 125bps from the low point in July 2016 through to March 2017, or if you count it as one big move they've gone up 158bps.

US 10 - Year Bond Yields have moved through a number of key levels and are on the cusp of a major breakout.

Former Fed Governor Stein highlighted that Federal Reserve's monetary policy transmission mechanism works through the «recruitment channel,» in such way that investors are «enlisted» to achieve central bank objectives by taking higher credit risks, or to rebalance portfolio by buying longer - term bonds (thus taking on higher duration risk) to seek higher yield when faced with diminished returns from safe assets.

* Maastricht criterion bond yields through Jan. 15, except Latvia and Netherlands (Jan. 14), Cyprus and Luxembourg (Jan. 13), Malta (Jan. 7) and Lithuania (Dec. 30, 2014).

Borrowers issue high - yield or «junk» bonds because they are considered too risky to raise funds through established channels.

Brace for some ups and downs in markets, but consider positioning your portfolio to pursue income through preferred stocks, total shareholder payout and high yield bond - oriented ETFs.

«A rush for safe - haven bonds around the world has sent the yields on sovereign bonds through the floor — meaning a fall in the regular income that pension funds use to pay their retirees their defined benefits, sometimes known as final salary pensions.

If much of the investment into bond mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.

In 2015 Creditex expanded into serving the bond market, through the launch of ICE Credit Trade, a leading electronic platform for trading investment grade and high yield corporate bonds.

Through much of the 1990s, the dividend yield was below the real government bond yield, but recently it has moved noticeably above (Graph 54).

Given that Treasury yields broke through levels that have been a fairly reliable barrier for several years now, it wouldn't be surprising to see bonds stage a «relief rally» here, but both yields and market action remain unfavorable overall, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a roughly 2 - year duration, primarily in Treasury inflation - protected securities.

I've previously outlined that high yield credit risk is typically less ideal than simply gaining credit exposure through stocks and rate exposure through bonds.

In the US, yields on 10 - year Government bonds fell through most of December and January, to around 4 per cent; they had mostly been in the range of 4 1/4 — 4 1/2 per cent through the second half of 2003.

Using quarterly S&P Composite Index level, index earnings, long - term government bond yield and inflation data during 1871 through 2016, along with contemporaneous income tax rates and Federal Reserve monetary actions, they find that:

Using total credit premiums, trading volumes and characteristics for a broad sample of U.S. investment grade and high yield corporate bonds during January 1994 through December 2015, he finds that: Keep Reading

Using Robert Shiller's monthly data for U.S. stock market returns, associated P / E10, short - term bill yields (six - month commercial paper / one - year U.S. Treasury notes) and long - term bond yields (10 - year U.S. Treasury notes or equivalent) during 1871 through 2013, they find that: Keep Reading

Using monthly levels of Moody's yield on seasoned Aaa corporate bonds and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during October 1928 through February 2018 (about 90 years) and monthly levels of the 10 - year government bond interest rate and the stock market from Robert Shiller during January 1871 through February 2018 (about 148 years), we find that: Keep Reading

That's dragged yields on $ 7.8 trillion of government debt negative; by contrast, the lowest rated corporate bonds have returned 151 percent since 2008, including 9.4 percent this year through mid-June.

In the U.S. those further benefits crucially flowed through the wealth effect channel: substitution of lower risk assets such as bank deposits and Treasuries for high yield bonds and equities led to price increases in those risky assets.

A bond's yield to maturity calculation provides you with the total return you would receive if the bond was held through its maturity date.

Brace for some ups and downs in markets, but consider positioning your portfolio to pursue income through preferred stocks, total shareholder payout and high yield bond - oriented ETFs.

(The float - adjusted index excludes bonds held by the Federal Reserve, which has been trying to depress bond yields and other interest rates through its massive government - bond purchases.)

The index series seeks track the entirety of Canada's fixed income market by providing performance measurement tools that range from Treasury bills, benchmark sovereigns (through core fixed income products) to Canadian high - yield and real - return bonds.

Since prepayments typically rise as interest rates fall and vice versa, the basic (pass - through) MBS typically has negative bond convexity (second derivative of price over yield), meaning that the price has more downside than upside as interest rates vary.

Given this, if you buy bonds now (either directly or through a bond fund), you are not only paying a high price for the bond, but you are also locking in a smaller yield.

The iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index returned 6.02 % year - to - date through November 24, the iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index returned 6.38 %, and the ICE U.S. Treasury Core Bond Index returned 2.38 % (source: Bloomberg, as of 11/24/2017).

That's achieved mainly through the RBC Global High Yield Bond Fund and the BlueBay Global Monthly Income Bond Fund.

Here's a sample portfolio that should yield a 5.5 % annual return through a mix bonds, dividend bonds and gold.

We would need to see a desire for greater risk through greater pursuit of high yield bonds at the expense of treasuries.

Beyond bonds, you are not alone if you are looking at the table and thinking about reaching for higher yields through bank loans.