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Brace for steepest rate hikes since 2006 in new year
December 11, 2017
Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade. With the world economy heading into its strongest period since 2011, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. predict average...
Vanguard's Bogle sees pension pain in low bond returns
December 7, 2017
Jack Bogle isn't optimistic about the state of U.S. pensions over the next decade. The founder of Vanguard Group thinks a conservative portfolio of bonds will only return about 3% a year over the next decade, and stocks won't do much better,...
Bank loans or high-yield bonds? Maybe both.
November 28, 2017
Investors searching for income often find it in the below-investment grade credit space. The challenge for advisers becomes, "Where do I put my clients' junk bond dollars to work?" When it comes to investing in below-investment grade credit,...
Bond investors should prepare for string of rate hikes in 2018
November 22, 2017
Yield-starved investors likely will have more to nibble on now through 2018, as the Federal Reserve is widely expected to introduce between four and five interest-rate hikes over the next 13 months. While the bond markets have been treading...
Largest U.S. pension fund may slash exposure to stocks
November 13, 2017
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, is considering more than doubling its bond allocation to reduce risk and volatility as the stock bull market approaches nine years. Calpers is looking at a menu...
Jeffrey Gundlach called it on risky link between stocks and junk bonds
November 10, 2017
Jeffrey Gundlach has been warning something's got to give. Based on the past two days, looks like we have our answer. Stocks fell around the world a second day and high-yield bonds headed for a fourth straight loss, resuming a historic correlation...
The history of bonds — at least since yields hit record lows last year
November 1, 2017
History, as Kurt Vonnegut reminded us, is merely a list of surprises. The next world war will certainly not start with the assassination of an Austro-Hungarian archduke. You're probably not going to make a fortune peddling pet rocks. On the...
Bond allocations: Be real, patient and flexible
October 30, 2017
Bond yields hit their year-to-date lows in early September with the 10-year Treasury yield getting as low as 2.03%. Low yields in the Treasury market are accompanied with historically expensive corporate and municipal bonds. Investors faced...
Why are investors still flocking to bonds?
October 18, 2017
Life is full of mysteries. Why are cats terrified of cucumbers? Why does your phone suggest you need a chain saw? And why have investors been putting so much money into bond funds? The last question is particularly vexing if you hold the notion...
Why your portfolio may have too much equity risk (Hint: It's your bonds)
October 12, 2017
Industry-wide calls for interest rates to rise over the past five years may be inflicting an unintended toll on portfolios: Many are overexposed to equity and equity-like risk, with little to offset it. When the Fed dropped its target short-term...
Hurricanes that ravaged Puerto Rico also wreck its bonds
September 29, 2017
Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and the storms' effects on the islanders will last for years. Far less dire – but still lingering – will be the effect on Puerto Rico's municipal bonds and the mutual funds that hold them....
With yields low and interest rates headed up, what kind of bonds do advisers buy?
September 19, 2017
The ancient Etruscans believed you could tell the future by examining sheep livers, a practice called haruspicy. This was known as the wisdom of the ancients. Nevertheless, haruspicy probably had a better record of predicting interest rates...
Mounting evidence shows eco-friendly bonds outperform conventional ones
September 5, 2017
Evidence is mounting that bonds that finance environmental projects perform better than conventional ones, HSBC Holdings Plc said in a report. The U.K.'s largest bank said green bonds are trading closer to benchmarks than regular debt issued...
Junk bonds face wave of supply just as investors turn sour
September 1, 2017
After a tough summer for junk bonds, with investors yanking cash out of the market, the clouds are gathering for a potentially stormy fall. September is typically among the busiest periods of the year for debt sales, posing a risk to issuers...
Keeping client assets safe in an increasingly unsafe world
August 30, 2017
You're in a darkened room — a shelter of some kind. Outside, you see mobs with torches; you hear air raid sirens. You turn on the television as an ashen-faced Jim Cramer is shouting "Sell! Sell! Sell!" The screen goes blank. Who hasn't had...
DoubleLine Capital's tale of two Jeffreys
August 29, 2017
It's not easy to outdo your boss, particularly when your boss is Jeffrey Gundlach, the bond savant of DoubleLine Capital. But that's exactly what DoubleLine's other Jeffrey -- the nice Jeffrey -- has been doing lately. Jeffrey Sherman, Gundlach's...
Pension funds expected to shift as much as $1trillion from stocks to bonds: Wells Fargo
August 28, 2017
Pension funds are poised to shift as much as $1 trillion from stocks to bonds in coming years to lock in gains and limit the potential for big losses, according to Wells Fargo & Co. "Definitely there's a lot of money that will want to move,"...
Gundlach faces battle to keep his bond star from fading
August 24, 2017
Times are tough for active managers, even for Hall of Famers such as Jeffrey Gundlach, manager of the DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, the fund's assets have declined 13 percent to $53.6 billion...
High-grade U.S. bonds run at fastest pace ever past $1 trillion
August 22, 2017
Blue-chip companies have sold more than $1 trillion of bonds in 2017, passing that milestone for the sixth straight year, as Federal Reserve rate hikes spur companies to borrow while it's still cheap. Sales from Amazon.com Inc. and Philip Morris...
Will Jeffrey Gundlach's Trump-like approach on Twitter work in financial services?
August 18, 2017
Jeffrey Gundlach's new aggressive Tweeting style has sparked a discussion as to whether it makes sense in the financial services industry. The founder and CEO of DoubleLine Capital, a $111 billion asset management firm specializing in fixed...
