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Agency Bonds: Limited Risk And Higher Return
In the world of fixed-income securities, agency bonds represent one of the safest investments, and are often compared to Treasury bonds (T-bonds) for their low risk and high liquidity. But unlike Treasury bonds, which are issued only by the Depa...
Author: Nathaniel Riley, 29-01-08
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Principal-Protected Notes: Paying For A Guarantee
A principal-protected note (PPN) is a synthetic investment or structured product that creates a customized investment. PPNs have their own unique risk/return profile designed to appeal to specific groups of investors. They are created by financial enginee...
Author: Fred Kaifosh, 29-01-08
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Spice Up Your Portfolio With International Bonds
When it comes to investing in bonds, there is a world of opportunity beyond the U.S. fixed income markets. In fact, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the size of the global bond market in 2006 was estimated at $45 trillion...
Author: Christina Granville, 29-01-08
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Why to buy emerging market bonds
Every financial crisis throws up its own crop of clichés, but this credit crunch has thrown up a humdinger – one that makes me wince every time I hear it. Over the past few months, it’s been impossible to open a newspaper, read a broker note or talk...
Author: Simon Nixon, 09-01-08
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Biggest bond yield fall since Black Monday
Remember when inflation was the investment world's biggest single worry back in...oh...back in June?
Anyone snapping up 10-year US Treasury bonds back then is now looking clever. Very. Ten weeks ago, the 10-year yield touched a half-decade high of 5.32%....
Author: Adrian Ash, 09-01-08
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Why you should avoid guaranteed equity bonds
When a product offers 125% of the growth in the FTSE 100 on a £1,000 investment over five years or your money back, my immediate reaction is that it all sounds rather complicated and if it looks too good to be true, there must be a catch. This is the deal off...
Author: Tim Bennett, 09-01-08
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Why investors fear a China Treasury dump
One of the big questions now being debated is, "What would happen if China were to dump its entire Treasury portfolio in one fell swoop?" Caroline Baum addressed that question in “China Doesn't Steer the U.S. Interest-Rate Ship”:
“Like a highly contagi...
Author: Mike Shedlock, 09-01-08
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Bond market – apocalypse now?
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Recent headlines have made much of panicky developments in the equity markets, but it is arguably not there but in the bond ma...
Author: Tim Price, 09-01-08
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Is this the end of the bond bull market?
How times change. Back in late February, global stock markets wobbled amid worries over a weakening US economy. This instantly prompted talk of falling short- and long-term interest rates.
Then last week US, UK and European stocks slid by 2%, 2.6% and 3.6% r...
Author: Andrew Van Sickle, 09-01-08
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Agency Bonds: Limited Risk And Higher Return
In the world of fixed-income securities, agency bonds represent one of the safest investments, and are often compared to Treasury bonds (T-bonds) for their low risk and high liquidity. But unlike Treasury bonds, which are issued only by the Depa...
Author: Nathaniel Riley, 19-12-07
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