Sentences with phrase «yielding bond products»

Eventually, they'll have to turn to assets like stocks, commodities and higher - yielding bond products that carry greater return — and greater risk.

Not exact matches

The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond fund, an index product that tracks the sector, has a trailing 12 - month yield of 4.33 percent.

So far, though, no one is reporting any unusual outflows in the bond market, but Hamilton - Keen cautions investors against chasing high - yield products.

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.

This leaves us roughly in the same position that we started the year, slightly overweight to spread product, i.e., investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds and emerging markets (more recently, we also went back to a slight overweight on commercial mortgage - backed securities).

Cumulative inflows into the iShares Short Maturity Bond ETF (NEAR), Floating Rate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF, PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio, and the Vanguard Short - Term Corporate Bond ETF topped $ 400 million in total for the first session of the week, the highest since the inception date of the most recent member of this product group.

At Bear, Stearns & Co., Mr. Abbott served as a Vice President in Financial Analytics & Structured Transactions (F.A.S.T) where he structured and reverse engineered complex CDO transactions, secured by a wide range of debt products, including high yield bonds, senior secured leverage loans, trust preferred bank loans, RMBS as well as other esoteric receivables.

«Exchange - traded products introduce self - reflexivity by creating a highly liquid security (listed stock) that tracks a potentially illiquid underlying instrument (e.g. high - yield bonds, commodity futures)» (again, Cole's «Prisoner's Dilemma»).

For a number of years, concerns had been expressed about the underpricing of risk in a range of financial instruments and the associated search for yield as investors sought higher returns in non-standard financial products as the yield on more standard products such as government bonds was deemed to be inadequate.

Yet low nominal gross domestic product growth and aging populations argue for lower bond yields than in the past — and sustained demand for high quality bonds.

Over time, MFS has been a leading innovator in the asset management industry, including creating one of the first in - house research departments in the mutual fund industry in 1932, launching the first high - yield municipal bond fund and the first global balanced fund, and more recently creating «outcome - oriented» products, such as its line of target - risk, target - date, and other asset allocation strategies.

However, breaking the carbon - carbon bonds, in order to shorten the molecular chains, is harder; extreme temperatures are needed, and often yield unwanted products.

The average yield of bonds in the S&P 500 7 - 10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has fallen by 94bps since year end as the yield thirsty market place has hunted yield oriented products.

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.

the relationship between interest rates and time, determined by plotting the yields of all or as many bonds of similar credit quality (eg: Treasuries or AA - rated Corporates), against their maturities; yield curves typically slope upward since longer maturities normally have higher yields, although it can be flat or even inverted; the Fixed Income Search Results Scattergraph shows several smoothed yield curves for different fixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based on bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of bonds, which is significantly larger than the number of bonds offered by Fidelity on any given day

Two by - products of the economy's strength also support the idea that we may be close to a bottom in bond yields.

By contrast, there would be a reason to hold a low - yield (non-zero) bond rather than an alternative low - yield product.

The RAFI ™ Bonds US Investment Grade Index and the RAFI Bonds US High Yield Index are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by ALM Research Solutions, LLC, and ALM Research Solutions, LLC makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product (s).

Yields are up across fixed income products as seen by the Bond Yield Summary Chart.

In this period, debt products like fixed deposit and bonds would have yielded much better returns.

This added bond holding could help the fund boost yield and since it is such short term the product could see very little in terms of defaults.

Depending on your comfort level, the idea of choosing fixed income other than government bonds / GICs / cash has some appeal (especially with historically low gov» t bond yields) but just be sure you understand the products you are buying, the inherent risks, the embedded options, the liquidity, the seniority of the debt.

In the construction of the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index, an individual bond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its spread duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see EquationBond Index, an individual bond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its spread duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equationbond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its spread duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equationbond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation 1).

While the High Yield US Corporate Bond ETF appears to be a slightly interesting unique product for an investor looking into junk bonds, it is hard to get excited about the rest of BMO's new ETFs — iShares CDN Short Bond Index ETF (XSB) already provides exposure to short - term bonds and Claymore has the sector ETFs covered.

Bonds and other fixed income products tend to be classified by their maturity dates, as it is the most important variable in the yield calculations.

A review of high - yield debt investments should cover: (1) analysis of the industry, including growth rates, special risks and leading companies; (2) analysis of the bond issuer, including the company's position in its industry; new products; management stability; the outlook for growth in revenues and cash flow as captured in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, also called EBITDA; value of corporate assets and the debt maturity schedule; and (3) analysis of the issue, including special provisions in the «bond indenture,» covenants protecting the bondholder, use of the money raised in bond offerings, debt seniority, secondary market liquidity and call provisions.

As the bonds on the ladder mature, reinvest into dividend ETFs and / or other income products IF their yields are sufficient.

In a recent blog, Pat Chiefalo, our head of iShares Canadian Product, said this growing appeal for dividend stocks is the result of two trends: An aging population that is in greater need of generating income from their investments; and the persistence of historically low government bond yields.

Mees also advises both issuers and underwriters on structured products such as securitisations, covered bonds and bespoke derivatives, with a particular focus on the insolvency aspects of these products, as well as on high yield and unsecured bond issues.

It can also be the perfect fit for those looking maximize their ability to invest in other high - yield, long term products like stocks, bonds, and real estate.

The panel has suggested to «lower the mandatory proportion of G - Secs» in the Life Fund and the Pension and General Annuity Funds and allow for higher exposure in alternative higher - yielding assets (like equity or property) or high rated corporate bonds» to help insurers generate a high gross return on investments so that insurance savings products can compare favourably in the financial savings space.

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Additionally, analysts expect bond buyers of commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to demand higher yields for subordinated loan products, which also will increase the cost of mezz.

As Salomon's Wheeler explains, even with some relative value investors jumping ship from CMBS to higher yielding corporate bonds, many of the tried and true CMBS investors are still flocking to the product.

At the same time, the prospect of continued low interest rates means less favorable yield on government bonds and fixed income products, making higher yielding investments backed by commercial real estate all the more attractive.