Just as striking is the view at the world's biggest bond investment fund, Pimco.
Finally, consider whether your bond investment should be in sector funds at all.
When interest rates decline, the value of a bond investment rises, and conversely when rates rise, your bonds decline in value.
How each bond investment style will perform will depend largely on what happens with the U.S. economy, the global economy and inflation.
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So another possibility, suggests Mark Kiesel of PIMCO, an American bond-investment firm, is that hedge funds and dealers will have their wrists badly smacked, learn a lesson and dedicate themselves henceforth to fundamental credit analysis and due diligence.
The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an investment-grade domestic bond index.
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The SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF ( MBG) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. agency mortgage pass-through sector of the U.S. investment grade bond market.
It has more listed sukuk, which are bond-like investment certificates based on Islamic principles, than anywhere else.
Last year the numbers dictated piling into bond insurers, investment banks and other industries on the verge of collapse.
BlackRock has thrived in recent years for two reasons it has had a particular strength in bonds during a bull market for such instruments, and the bond side of investment management seems to benefit from scale.
But right now, thanks to the Bernanke Put that is pushing bond rates to epic lows, many utilities have dividend yields higher than investment-grade bond yields.
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But the worry for all other government-bond markets is that investment terms will be altered retrospectively.
Big news this week from behemoth bond fund group Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO).
New investment vehicle bond issuance rose 620 billion yuan in 2011 and 1.4 trillion yuan in 2012.
Pension plans, insurance companies, and your investment grade bond fund have all recently doled out some cash to me.
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One type of bond to consider are investment grade Mortgage Backed Securities.
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For what it is worth, there is a rumor that Warren Buffett, who knows a lot about insurance, is eyeing an investment in bond insurers.
Also, the city now has a bond rating that is investment-grade, which should free up access to tens of millions of dollars for infrastructure improvements.
In exchange for an upfront fee, a bond insurer would take a bond with a midling investment grade rating -- single-A, for example -- and offer to pay investors what they were due if the issuer defaulted.
It makes sense for the investment-grade bond index to do better once its worst credit has dropped out.
Proceeds from the new bank loan, the bond sales and the Fiat investment will be used to repay the government loans.
One big winner, however, was bond-fund giant Pacific Investment Management Co.
Without a doubt, the best move for Apple and its shareholders was issuing the bonds, and, in doing so, Apple created the largest investment-grade bond offering in history.
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The investment grade rated bond eventually sold at a slight discount from par and fetched a yield of 4.5%, over 250 basis points over 10 year U.S. Treasury bonds.
For individuals the good news is that there are mutual funds that make it easy to invest in diversified portfolios of floating-rate loans, mostly made by banks to corporations with less than investment-grade bond ratings.
If I can open a frozen yogurt stand for 10, 000 dollars and get a 10% rate of return, then I will prefer the yogurt stand investment to a bond of similar risk which is offering 6%.
Nahanni is one of scores of similar transactions Enron executives allegedly used to disguise the growing gap between reported earnings and cash flow in the late 1990s which, if disclosed, would have threatened its investment-grade bond rating.
While there are actively managed ETFs and bond-fund manager Pacific Investment Management, or Pimco, already has plowed the ground in bonds active competition means the ETF landscape is starting to look more like the rest of the fund world.
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