The loss was primarily the result of lower sales of individual fixed annuities due to the low interest rate set by the Federal Reserve.
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Or, said slightly differently, historically the role of fixed income in an individual's portfolio has been to offset the volatility inherent in having equity exposure.
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The first is a very good treatise offered by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) called How to Buy Individual Bonds: A Fixed-Income Toolkit.
It can be done, however, often through the same broker you are using for trading stocks. (Check with your brokerage firm.) A 2008 article in the AAII Journal, How to Buy Individual Bonds: A Fixed-Income Toolkit, provides suggestions on how to get started.
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Individual investors reduced their exposure to fixed income by 2.1 percentage points from March.
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At present, council officials can hand out fixed penalty notices but they are powerless if an individual refuses to hand over their name and address.
That said, I also feel pretty confident suggesting that if you are looking at fixed-income, it would be prudent to consider individual bonds over bond funds and bond ETFs.
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According to the Vanguard Group an individual age 50-60 should have 37% fixed income and 63% equities, diversified among several categories.
These are just some of reasons are why I invest my fixed-income portfolios in funds and ETFs, rather than individual issues.
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The BlackRock segment manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide through a variety of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative and cash management separate accounts and funds, including iShares.
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Rather, the average individual account is still only 35% in stocks and 65% in fixed income.
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The Fed has restored family wealth to its pre-recession high-water mark and individual and institutional debt-equity ratios still rest too heavy in the fixed income sector.
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But that clarity is good clarity, especially at a time when individual investors have low confidence in Wall Street and few options to find fixed-income returns given the low-interest-rate environment.
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When one starts to get aggressive in seeking out yield in today's environment on the fixed-income side, one can easily find themselves losing the "safety" aspect traditionally associated with holding individual bonds to maturity.
Keep in mind that municipal securities are subject to a number of risks including, but not limited to: Interest Rate Risk, the risk that the market value of fixed-income securities may fluctuate when interest rates change, and Prepayment Risk, the risk that the issuers of individual securities may prepay them at a time when interest rates have declined.
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