Aside from continued contracting inventories, Maki also expects drops in housing investments and business fixed investments.
Still, it was fixed investments that really led the way down, dropping by 4.0% from a 4.7% gain in 2011.
How much you'll receive each month when you start to draw down your annuity will then depend on how your variable or fixed investments do over time.
So hedging your fixed-income investments in the fixed-income portion of your portfolio is going to be very critical.
For fixed income investments, passive investing is charged at 0.05% and active investing at 0.2%.
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The speed in which Beijing green lights and funds new fixed asset investments will be data dependent.
These funds held a combination of equity and fixed income investments, hedge funds, venture capital funds, specialty funds and cash.
Thursday's stock-market slump had driven traders around the world to flee equities for the safety of fixed income investments.
Another popular strategy in a rising rate environment is to keep the duration of your fixed income investments short.
Manufacturing fixed asset investments and export-driven sectors are two areas that could face structural headwinds for the next several years as China moves away from an export-driven economy.
The country has heeded the words of its own economists, which have mimicked that of international economists expressing concern over massive government spending on fixed asset investments roads, bridges and the like.
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That stimulus, mostly in the form of fixed asset investments in infrastructure, followed by low interest rates, fueled a hard asset bubble that the Chinese government has been trying to pop since last year.
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We looked back over the period stretching from January 1, 1997 to February 29, 2012 to see how movements of stocks, Treasuries and lower-grade fixed income investments like high-yield bonds and bank loans, related to each other.
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Wang Tao, chief economist with UBS AG in China, told China Daily on Tuesday that extensions of local-government debt already started last year amid concerns that municipalities were hurting from a sharp decline in housing development and fixed asset investments from Beijing.
Bonds are generally fixed return investments: you can either take a chance on stocks and your return varies with the ups and downs of the earnings of the companies, or you can bet on the sure (well, not absolutely sure) thing by buying a bond.
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High net worth individuals indicate they are most likely to invest in individual stocks (62 percent), mutual funds (43 percent), money market funds (43 percent), checking and savings accounts (43 percent), international investments (41 percent) and fixed-income investments (38 percent).
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At the same time, bond yields rose, which raised concerns about the outlook for fixed-income investments.
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For fixed-income investments like bonds and Treasury bills, inflation is of course a huge threat.
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If you're careful, here is your chance to pick up good fixed-income investments on the cheap.
Fixed-income investments will almost certainly lose money once rates begin to rise again and bond prices decline.
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BlackRock is traditionally seen as having its positions more focused in fixed-income investments.
Market participants will demand higher returns to compensate for rising prices that eat away the value of fixed-income investments over time.
Paul Herman, who heads HIP Investor, fixed-income investments have the lowest percentage of portfolio strategies that integrate impact and sustainability factors.
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"In the near future, investors cannot assume that bailouts will continue, " says Cai Yiyi, who manages fixed-income investments at Rongtong Fund Management in Shenzhen.
Its fixed-income investments, 28 percent of the portfolio, returned 4.9 percent.
Because of higher inflation, real returns on fixed-income investments were negative under the Democrats, ranging from -0.1% a year for long-term corporates to -0.8% for long-term government Treasurys.
Still, with the Federal Reserve buying bonds and pushing down yields on all fixed-income investments, investor appetite for junk bonds may continue unabated even if the opportunity for price appreciation is limited.
Gyrating 401(k) and IRA retirement fund balances and the low yields from fixed-income investments also have those approaching retirement or who have just entered it flocking to financial advisers for help in deciding upon how to allocate their portfolios to limit risk.
That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
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