The SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF ( MBG) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. agency mortgage pass-through sector of the U.S. investment grade bond market.
New investment vehicle bond issuance rose 620 billion yuan in 2011 and 1.4 trillion yuan in 2012.
Pension plans, insurance companies, and your investment grade bond fund have all recently doled out some cash to me.
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For what it is worth, there is a rumor that Warren Buffett, who knows a lot about insurance, is eyeing an investment in bond insurers.
The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an investment-grade domestic bond index.
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But right now, thanks to the Bernanke Put that is pushing bond rates to epic lows, many utilities have dividend yields higher than investment-grade bond yields.
Just as striking is the view at the world's biggest bond investment fund, Pimco.
It makes sense for the investment-grade bond index to do better once its worst credit has dropped out.
Finally, consider whether your bond investment should be in sector funds at all.
When interest rates decline, the value of a bond investment rises, and conversely when rates rise, your bonds decline in value.
How each bond investment style will perform will depend largely on what happens with the U.S. economy, the global economy and inflation.
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Without a doubt, the best move for Apple and its shareholders was issuing the bonds, and, in doing so, Apple created the largest investment-grade bond offering in history.
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The investment grade rated bond eventually sold at a slight discount from par and fetched a yield of 4.5%, over 250 basis points over 10 year U.S. Treasury bonds.
For individuals the good news is that there are mutual funds that make it easy to invest in diversified portfolios of floating-rate loans, mostly made by banks to corporations with less than investment-grade bond ratings.
If I can open a frozen yogurt stand for 10, 000 dollars and get a 10% rate of return, then I will prefer the yogurt stand investment to a bond of similar risk which is offering 6%.
Nahanni is one of scores of similar transactions Enron executives allegedly used to disguise the growing gap between reported earnings and cash flow in the late 1990s which, if disclosed, would have threatened its investment-grade bond rating.
Institutional investment analysis adds the bond (usually American) option to the analysis.
In almost every money market fund prospectus, pension fund investment policy statement and bond mutual fund prospectus in the US they usually treat US Treasurys differently from other bonds.
Brent Burns, an investment manager who builds bond portfolios for financial planners, says that since the Fed announcement he has fielded a flurry of questions from advisers considering high-yield and international bonds, and real-estate investment trusts.
So another possibility, suggests Mark Kiesel of PIMCO, an American bond-investment firm, is that hedge funds and dealers will have their wrists badly smacked, learn a lesson and dedicate themselves henceforth to fundamental credit analysis and due diligence.
It has more listed sukuk, which are bond-like investment certificates based on Islamic principles, than anywhere else.
Last year the numbers dictated piling into bond insurers, investment banks and other industries on the verge of collapse.
BlackRock has thrived in recent years for two reasons it has had a particular strength in bonds during a bull market for such instruments, and the bond side of investment management seems to benefit from scale.
The apocalyptic tax consequence of being a passive investor in small business loans stops virtually all foreign investors from participating directly in the U.S. small business loan market while driving their investment dollars into the corporate bond market.
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While the 15% rate applies to most corporate payouts, that's not the case for most real estate investment trust dividends or for bond fund dividends, which are really interest and are taxed at ordinary income rates of up to 35%.
Another reason demand for the long bond has been so voracious is that a lot of investment banks still use them to hedge their corporate-bond positions and interest-rate swaps (between fixed- and floating-rate obligations).
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With all this money flooding out of investment trusts, the corporate-bond market nearly collapsed.
But the worry for all other government-bond markets is that investment terms will be altered retrospectively.
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