We expect the average bond yield to continue rising as the effects of the 1997 to 2001 strong-dollar deflation gradually wear off.
The average bond fund paid 0.62% in fees last year.
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With the average diversified equity fund in America returning 24% last year and the average bond fund earning 8.86%, generous fees may seem a reasonable price for expert stock-and bond-picking.
The average corporate bond, as tracked by Barclays Capital, yields just 2.7%.
More importantly, equity allocations remain below their historical average, while bond allocations continue to stay above their historical average.
Muni bond defaults have been below average this year and money value at muni bond defaults has been below average, both in number and in money.
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The expense ratio for leading NTF bond funds at these shops averages 0.66%, while the average cost of bond funds on the Forbes Best Buy list is 0.37%.
Declining rates pushed up the value of bond investments, delivering an average 9.3% return for Treasury bond mutual funds.
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The ten year GDP-weighted average euro priced government bond yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
Last year, the average short-term bond fund gained about 9%, according to Morningstar.
But the average annual return of bond investors was just 1.8%.
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On September 9th, Hankook Tyre, a tyre maker with an investment-grade rating, issued 45 billion won-worth of three-year bonds at some 40 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above the average three-year bond yield in the secondary market.
Even a reversion to the historical average rates would adversely impact bond prices.
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The average 10-year Treasury bond yield as forecasted by 55 economists and regularly published in the Wall Street Journal has been much too high for several years.
That would typically be a bond fund with an average duration of more than four years or a stock fund.
Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.
Another way to keep your risk low is to invest in bond funds that have average maturities of 5 years or less because they seesaw around less violently as interest rates move.
The average expense ratio for an actively managed bond fund is 0.75 percent, according to Morningstar.
Over the past three years real long-term bond yields have been on average 1.4 percentage points higher in New Zealand than in Australia.
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Tepper, a former Goldman Sachs bond trader, has generated average annualized net returns of approximately 30% since he founded Appaloosa in northern New Jersey in 1993.
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If you are an investor in a municipal bond fund that yields above average returns, you can be sure there are a few tobacco settlement bonds in the mix.
Furthermore, the allocation to bonds and bond funds remained above the historical average of 15% for the 28th consecutive month.
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Osterweis Strategic Income has more credit risk but lower interest-rate risk (due to shorter average duration) than some intermediate-term bond funds.
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It is also the 22nd consecutive month that bond allocations have been above their historical average of 15%.
Even with the decrease, bond and bond fund allocations were above their historical average of 16% for the 33rd consecutive month.
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Fat chance: the IMF forecasts GDP growth to average just 0.5% a year and bond yields of 7.7% between 2012 and 2017.
The average credit rating of a typical High Yield Corporate bond portfolio is higher than that of the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index.
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Bond allocations have been above the historical average of 15% for all of 2010 and reached the highest observed value of 25.5% during May 2010.
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