Lower interest rates mean higher prices for fixed income securities and gold, a proxy today for deflation.
The division underwrites, trades, and distributes fixed income securities and derivates like bonds.
Issued by the Brazilian Treasury, the LFTs are fixed income securities, whose yield changes with variation of the Selic rate.
That simple Follow-The-Fed investment lesson paid off with extraordinary gains last year for the hedge funds specializing in fixed income securities.
So-called double and triple A fixed income securities were packed with junk in such a way that the value of everything became suspect.
In a future post, I will elaborate on how active management is even more essential to specific types of fixed income securities, such as munis.
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These growing payouts have a special appeal in the current environment, where the safest fixed income securities yield little and inflation seems probable in the future.
The majority of these investments are in fixed income securities like government and corporate bonds and the remainder in equity securities, mortgage loans, policy loans and other investment securities.
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These return drivers may include reduced exposure to long equity, and increased exposure to alternatives, commodities, master limited partnerships, and different types of fixed income securities that provide returns commensurate with the risks.
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They cannot bear to risk such capital losses again, so they stay away from equities and over-weight their portfolios with Treasury bonds and other conventional fixed income securities where they naively believe they cannot lose principal.
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Insurance companies often have long term liabilities that they wish to hedge, which require low risk and predictable cash flows and fixed income securities such as government bonds that offer a predictable stream of payments by way of interest and principal payments.
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What we're doing is putting together, in one margin calculation, both futures positions that are traded on New York Stock Exchange's futures exchange, NYSE Liffe US, and the fixed income securities positions that are currently cleared at DTCC FICC, the fixed income clearing corporation.
Practically all were closed-end fixed-income securities, preferred stocks or some other form of fixed-income product masquerading as stocks.
Get yields of 8% to 15% on top of huge capital gains in fixed-income securities.
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Interest rates on global fixed-income securities currently range from less than 1% to 5%.
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Get yields of 8% to 15% in fixed-income securities, including bank convertibles and preferred stock.
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Without fixed-income securities the best way to put their riches to work is through acquisitions.
Money market funds invest in short-term fixed-income securities or commercial paper from governments, financial institutions and corporations.
Special Offer: Get yields of 8% to 15% on top of huge capital gains in fixed-income securities.
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Special Offer: Get yields of 8% to 15% in fixed-income securities, including bank convertibles and preferred stock.
Special Offer: Beat stocks year in and year with high-yielding fixed-income securities that pay 8% to 12%.
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Get yields of 8% to 15% on top of huge capital gains in fixed-income securities, including bank preferreds.
Special Offer: Get yields of 8% to 15% in fixed-income securities, including bank convertibles, Canadian trusts and preferreds.
This would free up capital for the insurers to use in solving their problems with more exotic fixed-income securities.
Similarly, fixed-income securities held in taxable accounts can be shifted to municipal bonds, which may provide higher after-tax yields.
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By now almost all Europe's insurers have moved much of their investment out of equities and into fixed-income securities.
Special Offer: Get yields of 8% to 15% in fixed-income securities, including bank convertibles, Canadian trusts and preferred stock.
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This was the lowest allocation to fixed-income securities and funds since February 2011.
Conversely, if you are underweighted in bonds, you put the new contribution to work by purchasing fixed-income securities or funds.
In October Mr Mantega tripled a tax on foreign investment in fixed-income securities to try to hold back the flood.
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