Edelman says that many investors have piled into long - term bonds and high
yield debt because they come with higher yields.
Not exact matches
Many people have bought into this space
because it's one of the only places to get decent
yield, but she points out that a number of companies only offer corporate
debt because of market demand.
This is especially true on the downside
because high
yield investors typically are «privy» to bank credit information — trust me, this is true, as our high
yield desk was next to the bank
debt trading desk and we were very friendly with each other — and can see when corporate numbers are deteriorating well in advance of equity analysts and investors.
Higher
yielding fixed income offers those higher
yields because the issuers of the bonds have a better chance of defaulting on their
debt.
Find out why negative interest rate policies are failing
because bond buyers do not want a negative
yield and saturated borrowers want to pay off
debts.
«The seeds and the fertilizers are too expensive for poor farmers like us, that we become buried in too much
debt while our
yields began to decline
because of the failure of the HYVs,» said Nazareno.
The advice on avoiding high -
yield debt needs more explanation,
because bonds with high payouts are not especially sensitive to interest rate movements.
At present, the relationship between earnings and bond
yields seems tighter
because of the large substitution of
debt for equity going on, but that's not a normal thing in the long run.
Let's call it a Treasury Bond Bubble,
because other classes of intermediate term
debt have significant
yield spreads over Treasuries
because of the current economic volatility.
Because U.S.
debt is not considered as «safe» as it used to be, investors could demand higher
yields.
I'm sorry, but with an overindebted economy, we can have a structural, not cyclical recession, where the shape of the
yield curve doesn't matter much
because of all the
debt.
This is on top of the problem that when high - quality long interest rates are so low, it is typically a bad time to try to make money in financial assets,
because returns on risky assets are typically only 0 - 2 % percent higher than the
yield on long BBB / Baa
debt over the long run.
Schwab Intelligent Portfolios excelled largely
because of its fixed income allocation, which included high -
yield bonds and international
debt, according to the Robo Report.
However, high
yielding stocks are a VERY crowded trade
because the Central Banks have kept interest rates low, probably in large part to facilitate servicing of the national
debts and to allow the investment banks to recapitalize and at least partially recoup their bad leveraged bets.
If company ABC (Rating: AAA) wanted to issue bonds at 5.00 % their competitor XYZ (Rating: AA) would have to pay a higher
yield to attract the equivalent investment
because of the perceived lesser quality of their
debt.
But make it a priority to kill off credit card
debt before any other,
because it's ridiculous to pay 15 % interest when your savings account
yields 0.01 %.
Interest rate risk is an important consideration for investors of
debt because of the impact interest rates have on the
yields and price of the
debt held.
I decided to write this article this night
because I decided to run my bond momentum model — low and behold, it yelled at me that everyone is grabbing for
yield through credit risk, predominantly corporate and emerging markets, with a special love for bank
debt closed end funds.
The boom happened
because of loose monetary policy, which led many people to adjust their risk posture up, whether in commodity speculation, or in high
yield debts.
They see companies issue
debt below their dividend
yields and don't understand why there's a market ther,
because they are thinking «retail» and not «institutional.»
Because of the increasing level of cash flows necessary to service the
debt relative to the economic
yield on the assets, it doesn't take much fluctuation to make the most marginal borrowers question whether they can hold onto the assets.
Maybe you could also shed some light on this quote by Colm O'Shea «A lot of people say there is apparently no inflationary threat from the growing U.S.
debt because bond
yields are low».
Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just
because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high -
yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign
debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).
For the borrower, that's enticing
because blending the rates of the conventional mortgage and mezzanine
debt yields an «all - in» rate of only 6.5 %, he says.
Lately we've invested a lot of cash with some
debt (about 50 - 60 % LTV in most cases)
because we've found deals in our market with good
yields.