Bond Funds
Keep up with the latest news about bond funds which can provide diversity and income to portfolios and offset equity risk.
Ireland Woos Pensioners for Bonds
By Marlene Y. SatterIreland plans to entice its senior citizens to invest in Irish bonds through their pension plans. If it succeeds, it could avoid having to seek a second bailout.
March 09, 2012
Morgan Stanley’s Jennings Pleads Not Guilty in N.Y. Cab Driver’s Stabbing (Bloomberg)U.S. bond-underwriting chief William Bryan Jennings faces up to 10 years for assault, theft of service and intimidation of bias or bigotry charges.
March 09, 2012
Bond Funds & DecouplingFewer than 12% of funds in the intermediate-term bond category managed to match or beat the return of its benchmark, Morningstar reports
March 07, 2012
Big Banks Join Greek Debt SwapBy Thursday Greece must win over the rest of the participants to exchange new bonds for old, or it will invoke collective action clauses to compel additional bondholders to participate. The target is to reduce the countrys privately held debt of 206 billion euros ($270 billion) by 53.5%.
March 06, 2012
Greek 1-Year Bond Hits 1,000%Investors who would drool at the chance to turn a $1,000 investment into $10,000 in just a year are likely in no better position than the Greek mythological figure Tantalus unable to grasp the low-hanging fruit just out of his reach.
March 06, 2012
Portuguese Bond Yields RisePortugal may be in need of a second bailoutor so it seems from its sovereign bond yields, which have risen steadily despite a flood of cash from the European Central Bank that is flowing to other investment targets.
March 01, 2012
ECB’s Trillion-Euro Giveaway Offers Limited Time for Reform: News AnalysisThe ECBs liquidity lifeline to bankslike Americas QE policyoffers a chance to avoid a deeper economic depression, but only if that window of opportunity is used to make sustained structural reforms that policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have so far avoided.
March 01, 2012
CDS Not Triggered by Greek Bailout: ISDAThe bailout of Greece involving an exchange of sovereign bonds did not constitute a credit event and therefore need not trigger credit default swaps to pay creditors, according to the International Swaps & Derivatives Association.