But this does not seem enough to explain the difference in bond performance between the two parties.
Over the last year, the Lehman Brothers U.S. credit index, a widely followed barometer of corporate bond performance, is up 8.2%.
In fact, bond performance continues to maintain a sizable separation from stock performance.
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Granted, declining interest rates over the past 10 years contributed to market conditions that were conducive to positive bond performance.
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Over the last year, the Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) U.S. credit index, a widely followed barometer of corporate bond performance, is up 8.2%.
Adele had earlier given her first ever live performance of the 23rd Bond song in front of a packed Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
After posting 12 consecutive annual price rises, gaining more than 500% over that span, gold is suddenly being shunned by investors who once saw it as a way to generate outsize returns without the volatility and uneven performance in the stock, bond and real-estate markets.
The first occurred in July when the performance of the SPY moved well above the performance of TLT which represents the bond market.
In its statement Wednesday, the Fed made clear that it could increase or decrease its bond purchases depending on the performance of the job market and inflation.
The key boost for Vanguard's fund in 2011 lies in the strong performance in the U.S. Treasury bond market this year.
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But not surprisingly, the most popular gauge of Bond's success has been the performance of the man in the starring role.
Richard Lehmann , editor of Income Securities Investor (published with Forbes), prefers to stick to his bond knitting and eschew predictions of stock performance.
Momentum-chasing investors are setting themselves up for a fall he warns, if they try and extrapolate future performance from the 30-year bull run in the bond market.
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Most important, at least so far, bond funds have generally offered better risk-adjusted performance .
Mr. Gross's fund returned 4.16% for the year, its worst performance since 2006 and far behind the benchmark Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index's 7.84% gain, according to Morningstar.
The company invests the funds in one or more bond portfolios, but the return is only loosely related to the performance of the bonds.
The SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate Bond ETF ( SCPB) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-3 Year Corporate Bond Index.
They have been trying to boost their performance by shortening the duration (a measure that takes into account not just a bond's maturity but the interest it pays) of their portfolios.
Sun and co-authors Lu Zheng of UC Irvine and Ashley Wang of the Federal Reserve studied the returns of some 5, 000 hedge funds from 1994 to 2011, adjusting for the funds' stock and bond exposure, currency bets, credit spreads and other factors that could account for performance.
The Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Bond Index ended the third quarter down 1.69%, the fourth worst quarterly performance since September 1986.
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Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody's, argues that better quality control can improve hospitals' financial performance.
The performance record of the past 30 years reflects two different events that combined to create a favorable environment for bond prices.
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For example, BexA has long lobbied for a comprehensive guarantee for export-performance bonds. (These are posted by exporters and can be called in by a customer if it is dissatisfied with the exporter's performance.) Unlike many EU export agencies, the ECGD pays out only if a customer calls a bond unfairly for political reasons, perhaps.
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