"People don't want to talk about anything but bonds or cash, " says Wells Fargo's Davidson.
Bill Gross has an interesting piece here on the historical outperformance of stocks as against bonds or cash.
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Still, stocks are looking increasingly attractive compared with low-yielding bonds or cash, said Russ Koesterich, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock Inc.
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Instead of selling shares, though, and moving money into low-yielding bonds or cash, investors decided to shift to safer stocks, many with sizable dividends.
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The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has provided enough systemic risk to keep money out of higher beta emerging market equities and in bonds or cash.
Low yields remain problematic for many individual investors, particularly those investing in bonds or holding cash.
If you hold your entire portfolio in cash or bonds, you run the risk of losing out to inflation.
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He suggests either moving into cash and bonds or, for more active traders, tightening stop limits and using put options.
According to the adage, a portfolio should be moved out of stocks and into cash or bonds at the start of May.
For example, for those living off their investments, having too many stocks and not enough bonds (or the wrong type of bonds) and not enough cash could be an issue.
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Accordingly, many have gravitated to the safety of cash or government bonds.
It may feel safe to put your money in the top performing funds in a bull market or into cash and bonds during a bear market, but both are actually riskier than they seem.
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Some financial "planners" will consult with you for an hourly fee to create a financial plan and maybe even get you rolling with a targeted investment-asset allocation (a mix of stocks, bonds, cash and other investments) or a model portfolio.
In cash trading for stocks or bonds, pricing errors are revealed almost immediately, so losses are limited.
In 2001, in a desperate effort to stave off debt default, Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister, forced them to swap bonds (and cash) for long-dated or low-yielding paper.
In the core markets of France, Germany and the Netherlands, the dividend yield is much higher than the yield on cash or on ten-year government bonds.
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Other options might be high-yield bonds, floating-rate debt, cash, commodities, or real-estate income producing properties.
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This would include any transactions paid by check, cash, credit card, transfer of stocks, bonds, or other financial instrument.
Micron raises the money to do this by issuing equity (or more typically, bonds convertible into equity) to add to its cash in the bank and profits from ongoing operations.
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You can start with this short risk tolerance questionnaire and asset allocation worksheet to make sure you have the right amounts in stocks, bonds, and cash based on your time frame and your comfort (or discomfort) with the ups and downs of the market.
They are putting their money into cash or money-market funds, rather than equities or corporate bonds.
So presumably, if the deal is allowed to proceed, the ECB will ensure that all the risk actually remains with Bankia and the Spanish government - and therefore with Spanish taxpayers - by imposing a massive discount (or haircut) on the amount of cash it would exchange for the bonds.
For example, since many muni bonds either mature or pay coupons in December and January, the market is usually awash with cash at the start of the year.
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With interest rates at record lows and deficits at or near record highs, the long term risk of holding too much cash and bonds is underrated by most.
Runs these days start not with a queue of people lining up to withdraw cash but with clicks of a computer to transfer money abroad or to buy bonds, shares or other assets.
They allow the owner to invest in shares, bonds and cash, and accrue interest, dividends and capital returns, without paying any further income or capital gains tax.
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