My coverage ranges from the municipal and corporate bond markets to options trading in the stock market.
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But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
So you can choose among various preselected options from bond to emerging market funds.
The Department for Education denied there were delays to the programme, but said it was essential to take the time to find the right finance arrangement for each school, and confirmed it was now looking at a number of options including a bond finance solution.
While there are other factors investors should consider in purchasing individual bonds, retirees and new bond investors interested in researching investment options that may add more income to their portfolio while avoiding the risk of bonds funds and restrictive annuities, may want to investigate corporate bonds.
Even so, the potential for electronic bond trading may be less than in equities, futures and options.
Also, with bond yields so low, domestic investors are currently presented with fewer attractive options.
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To prevent yield chasing, most stable value funds prohibit transfers to similar options, such as a money market or short-term bond fund.
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The only options for investors were to buy contra funds or strategically shift to holding bond funds, particularly long-term government bond funds.
The other dinosaur den is financial options--the equivalent of the right, for example, to buy Treasury bond futures at a certain strike price--where traders hang over the railings, screaming and waving frantically.
It also opened up more investment options for QFIIs, by allowing them to participate in China's tightly-controlled interbank bond market.
Jeffrey Gundlach, one of the hottest bond managers in the nation, suggested in late May that cash was one of the wisest investment options out there.
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