Should that happen, "the performance of these bonds would be adversely affected, " as rising yields ripple across global credit markets, Mr. Shubert said.
The company invests the funds in one or more bond portfolios, but the return is only loosely related to the performance of the bonds.
"With profits" policyholders receive bonus payments based on the performance of the shares and bonds they have invested in, and their rewards depend on the overall performance of the business.
Morgan GBI-EMG Core Index, which in turn tracks the performance of local currency bonds issued by emerging market governments.
You would expect the performance of gold and Treasury bonds to be inversely correlated.
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"During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes, " the indictment reads.
Bonds has denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and was convicted of one count of obstruction of justice for giving an evasive answer in 2003 to a grand jury investigating PEDs.
Anderson is a convicted felon, and is accused of supplying and injecting Bonds and other elite athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.
Tracking Performance : Assessing the returns of a group of individual bonds can be difficult, because the income is not reinvested and some bond issues may not be readily priced.
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They are going to not give you average performance, but give you above-average performance because you're going to have a performance of your investments, whether they're stocks, bonds, international or what have you, that are way above average, not mediocre.
At the end of his book, he relegates stock picking to a secondary or tertiary facet of investment strategy, worth perhaps 10% of your performance, with 70% assigned to the decision among stocks, bonds and cash, and 20% to the choice of subsectors of stocks.
The public is becoming immune to the constant performance-enhancing-drug headlines, with the exception of those concerning Bonds.
The average yield for nonfinancial company bonds in the iBoxx Euro corporate index, which measures the performance of investment-grade debt issued in euros, is around 2.35%, Markit said.
That Bonds, like so many other players of his time, used performance-enhancing drugs is not really in question.
Mr. WILLIAMS: Our book as it pertains to Bonds describes an entire trajectory of his career as a user of performance enhancing drugs.
The first is that investors are moving money out of life-insurance companies, some of the biggest holders of corporate bonds, and placing it with investment-advisory firms with superior performance.
Although that performance was much better than the painfully negative returns suffered by holders of government bonds, it was a long way short of the 6-7% returns that shares have historically achieved.
The quest for higher yields is inflating a bubble in junk bonds, and investors are taking on more risk as they try to improve their performance.
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Barry Bonds, the home run record holder, faces another set of allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Mr. Bonds deserved prison because his misstatements were part of a pattern of behavior that included using performance-enhancing drugs and cheating on his wife, he said.
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