My analysis indicates, rather, that the risk premium on investment grade corporates is generous, making that group attractive by comparison.
At the risk of giving a grade, I think voters generally did a good job when asked to directly make decisions.
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While all of the big emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China are investment grade, risk aversion has kept capital in U.S dollars.
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Investors will want to be overweight below-market beta allocation, meaning investors will continue to move out of risk assets and into high end investment grade, defensive sectors like utilities and overall net long safety versus risk assets.
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There's evidence that the risk premium is peaking for investment grade corporate debt.
Turns out that the Primary Fund, like many other money market funds, made significant investments in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which offered juicy yields, but did so because they were backed by things like mortgages, auto loans, credit card receivables and other risky assets that, despite their risk, came with investment-grade ratings.
The expected credit risk premium over inflation from investment-grade securities is also expected to remain stable.
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That being said, we see the expected risk in Treasury securities and investment-grade bonds as low.
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This has lowered their overall grade - and has put at risk university places.
This assumes that in retirement the couple switches to a lower-risk, conservative portfolio of government and high grade corporate bonds earning on average a real return of just 3%.
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The flows into risk-free assets by central banks and private investors has plunged returns on these assets into negative territory, and pushed investors out along the risk curve into assets that are close substitutes to risk-free assets (such as investment grade U.S. corporate bonds).
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Based on prices, the expected risk is low in Treasury securities and investment-grade bonds.
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Lower-risk funds have the reverse pattern, a bad grade for bull markets but a good one in bear markets.
Although US bonds remain the safe haven asset during an investment climate of risk aversion, it has become clear that investment grade emerging debt is the reliable second choice.
This has lowered their overall grade - and has put university places at risk.
And junk bonds (those below investment grade) are trading at a level that implies more risk than at any time since 1991.
Investment-grade corporate bonds, which carry only a sliver of default risk, now yield an average 1.8 percentage points more than Treasurys, up from 1.3 points in early 2000.
Accordingly, investors today, depending on their risk tolerance, income needs, and investment goals, beyond holding investment grade U.S. municipal bonds and U.S.-centric stocks, might consider including one or more of the following components listed below.
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The last point I want to make about juggling return assumptions is that problems have more than likely been compounded by administrators moving incrementally out of low interest return investments and upping allocations to equities (with dire consequences over the past 12 years), extending maturities (which increases risk), and cozying up to the low end of the investment grade spectrum.
And then there seems to have been a third hedge taken out, described in today's Wall Street Journal as "protection on investment-grade bonds" - which appears to have been protection against the risk that the second hedge went wrong.
The risk premium in financial markets comes in as Treasury yields move up and fewer below-investment-grade debentures stop trading like yesterday's sardines.
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Investment grade corporate bonds would also be affected as the cost of insuring those bonds rises with the risk and real possibility of future defaults.
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