Additionally, many mutual funds have been forced to sell their high quality, high yield bonds because of redemptions.
In order of popularity, respondents said they owned high-quality corporate, high-yield, international (including emerging market), Treasury (including TIPS) and municipal bonds and bond funds.
This means that for investors seeking income-oriented opportunities with daily liquidity, a well discriminated, quality high yield portfolio remains one of the most attractive investments across all fixed income markets.
First is pension liabilities: under the new rules, a company's future obligations will be calculated using the yield on high-quality corporate bonds.
Just take a look at what happened to the SPDR Barclays High Yield bond ETF ( JNK) compared to the high-quality Vanguard Total Bond ETF ( BND) during the heart of the last recession.
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Taking this distortion to yet another level, compared to high yield bonds, blue-chip, high quality stocks look incredibly cheap!
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Of course, second-lien debt is a niche product for issuers that require higher leverage than is usually available in the first-lien market, but that in many cases are locked out of the regular-way high-yield bond market because of size, credit quality, or complexity.
"There's been a general flight to quality, so very few people want to take a chance on high-yield bonds right now, " said Cecilia L. Gondor, executive vice president of Thomas J.
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