But given how the recent downturn has slashed valuations, and given that stocks of strong companies tend to fare far better than bonds during inflationary climates, I think these big dividend-payers are a more attractive option right now for those with long-term time horizons.
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CDOs, while offering better returns than bonds with a similar rating.
Citigroup equity strategist Tobias Levkovich states that some investors have missed the fact that equities have generated better returns than bonds over the past four years.
And a 6% gain is better than Treasury bonds.
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Active managers in intermediate-term securities fared better than managers in long-term securities, and managers in investment grade bonds fared better than managers in high-yield securities.
They also seem to be a much better value than most bonds and CDs at this time.
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This new wave is going to leave fixed income paper, currently not much better than zero coupon bonds out in the cold.
They return about the same as long-term bonds with lower interest-rate risk and pay substantially better than short-term bonds.
With rates already ticking higher from ultralow levels, some companies are issuing more debt than first planned to yield-hungry institutional investors seeking better returns than Japanese government bonds can offer.
For a little more risk, investors can buy emerging market government or corporate bonds and do better than they would if they just held US bonds.
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Gold continues to break records, rising 2.4% on Tuesday as the market looks for a hedge to save itself from a weak dollar, and better capital appreciation than Treasury bonds.
In short, by historical standards high yield bonds are currently offering only a modest yield pickup versus better-rated bonds, rather than relative to emerging markets bonds in particular.
The auction of Spanish bonds went better than expected which was a slight positive.
That kind of arms-length arrangement, they argue, would be much better than having the ECB buy bonds itself, and would give the EFSF huge firepower.
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However, in order to understand things more deeply still, we will need to dig into the data more deeply and see that the real growth story is not just in the way that growth is good for stocks, but in the way that growth is better for stocks than it is for bonds.
It would be better for the global economy if savers piled their cash into equities and corporate bonds now, rather than waiting for better news.
Mr Huang considers this to be an infinitely better way to invest than buying shares or bonds (both of which he avoids) that cannot be subjected to the same sort of intimate credit appraisal.
Once you include the tax benefits, EE series savings bonds are a much better investment than treasuries.
Sweeney noted that stocks historically have generated larger returns than bonds, making them a better option to offset the effects of long-term inflation.
Our research consistently demonstrates that short-term (five year maturity or less) paper has historically a much better risk-return tradeoff than long-term bonds.
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has claimed that paying 100% to these holdouts would violate Argentine law, which states that no holders of the defaulted bonds can be offered better terms than those accepted by 93% of investors in 2005 and 2010.
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The paper offered better yields than most government and high-rated corporate bonds, and was considered a relatively safe investment.
These people have tax-free bonds because their net yields are better than taxable fixed-income instruments, also taking into account the financial strength of the issuing entities.
But 4% is still a heckuva lot better than the 1.6% annualized real return bonds had the last time (1952-1962) we were stuck with historic low bond yields courtesy of Federal Reserve policy.
Implausible as it may sound, right now equities and corporate bonds are a better long-term bet than cash.
For investors hunting for yield, bonds from the region offer a better return than those from more developed markets, although some money managers are growing more cautious on the region.
It wants to get better returns on its investments than U.S. treasury bonds offer, but it's also got to make sure that moving this money doesn't cause turmoil in global markets.
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