Surveys in America show that, on average, younger members of a 401(k) plan tend to keep a large chunk of their plan assets in equity funds, which are riskiest but also promise the highest returns over the long run, and that members switch into less risky bond and money-market funds as they get older.
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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This widening spread is a measure of how different the perceptions of bond yields and money market rates have become.
Investors closing an equity account outright are as likely as not to open a new bond fund or money market account.
Just like the pain experienced by conservative coupon-clipping bond investors, money is barely earning any interest, due to a low rate environment.
In 2007 HSBC in Panama was told that Salvatore Frieri Gallo was doing illegal bond trading and money laundering in Venezuela and that HSBC in Switzerland had given Frieri ECG bank statement.
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Lastly, after the anxiety over Greek elections subside, and the realities of low interest rates for a very long time setting in with investors, I think there will be a significant outflow from bonds, bond funds and money market funds into commodities and stocks.
Other than parking cash for a few years in short-term bond index funds to beat money markets, lazier investors might do better with actively managed broad-spectrum bond funds.
The high yield bond market gets my money with its 500 basis points spread over 10-year Treasuries.
The brighter outlook for the Thai economy has encouraged the government to return to the international bond market to raise money.
When I began to talk about the dangers in the bond markets at the Money Show two years ago, nobody much wanted to listen.
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When the Fed buys almost a trillion dollars worth of bonds, unsurprisingly that sudden influx of money drives bond rates down to incredibly low levels.
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It has been commonplace to hear, after years of mutual fund outflows from equities into bond funds, that money has begun to flow in the opposite direction.
What they do is, when an old bond has to be repaid, they borrow again with a new bond and use that money to pay off the old.
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LA's schools is that they have been unable to raise money through bond issues because of the requirement that such proposals get a two-thirds majority in a referendum.
Since the beginning of the second quarter, U.S. Treasury bond funds have been money makers despite the fact that the underlying securities in the fund yield under 3% annually.
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The outflow of money from stock mutual funds finally reversed to inflow in October, while the inflow of money into bond mutual funds has reversed to outflows over the last four weeks, and accelerated last week in the largest weekly bailout from bonds since October, 2008 (which took place just before bonds began a huge rally in November, 2008).
"There's a lot of money looking for a home and people are finally deciding the bond market is done and moving money into equities, " said Edward Simmons, managing director of Maine-based financial advisors HighTower.
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It would be selling the bonds and buying the stocks because what's happened to the extent that you have bonds in your portfolio, interest rates are at rock bottom, which means that bond prices are up, the funds have done very, very well, so take some money out of the bond funds and put them into equity funds.
Previously, Mr. Gundlach managed bond funds at Los Angeles money manager TCW Group Inc.
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Today, yields aren't as deeply negative, but bond holders are still losing money compared to inflation.
Few Paris Club charges are creditworthy enough to have raised money in the bond market.
Nor is it economic, given the issuing costs, for small companies to borrow money in the bond market.
Year-to-date data show cash has finally begun flowing into U.S. stock funds, while bond funds continue to attract money.
Many of his clients shifted their money to the bond fund, he says.
That makes it cheaper for Apple to raise the money through a bond issue, even though it will attract interest payments.
In the first half of 2012 European companies raised more money from the bond markets than from bank loans, according to Dealogic (see chart).
MSBs, however, the scarcity of government bonds makes it hard for the central bank to engage in open-market bond dealings to control the money supply.
The target was designed to keep big borrowers like Brazil from defaulting on their debt service by budgeting enough money to cover bond interest to foreign investors.
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