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Cutting Your Losses? With High-Yield ETFs, Maybe It’s Time
Cutting Your Losses? With High-Yield ETFs, Maybe It’s Time by Gershon Distenfeld, Director, High Yield, AllianceBernstein If you bought a high-yield exchange-traded fund (ETF) over the past two years...
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The Credit Markets Are Softening and Funding Is Tightening
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Don't Put Your Bonds on Autopilot in 2016
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High Yield Spreads: Finally Looking Attractive
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Looking for Value in High Yield? Avoid ETFs.
Looking for Value in High Yield? Avoid ETFs. by Gershon Distenfeld, Director, High Yield, AllianceBernstein Are high-yield bonds cheap today? Relative to history, yes. But they’re not all alike. That’s...
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High yield plays a supporting role
High yield plays a supporting role by Matt Tucker, CFA, Head of Fixed Income, Blackrock Investments Matt Tucker takes a closer look at a key reason of holding high yield bonds in a portfolio. In a...
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US Junk Bonds Eked Out A Small Gain Last Week
US Junk Bonds Eked Out A Small Gain Last Week by James Picerno, The Capital Spectator Equity markets around the world took a hit at the end of last week in the wake of Friday’s news that Britain voted...
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No Bregrets
No Bregrets | June 2016 by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital "But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the freshwater system and public health,...
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What is the future of the ECB’s corporate bond program?
by Andy Sparks, Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Research, MSCI With average purchases of €7.8 billion ($8.7 billion) per month, the European Central Bank’s corporate bond buying program...
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by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers” Thomas Jefferson Every day we are bombarded with a barrage...
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by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon. ~ Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Commander British Expeditionary Force 1915-1918 With the 100th anniversary of Vimy...
View ArticleFidelity Investments Launches New Multi-Sector Bond Fund
May 10, 2017 - Toronto - Fidelity Investments Canada ULC has launched Fidelity Multi-Sector Bond Fund, managed by porfolio managers Jeff Moore and Michael Plage, and supported by Fidelity’s global...
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Canadian Update: Canada IG Corporate Bonds Outperforming TSX YTD
by Kevin Horan, Director, Fixed Income Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices Canada’s economy has been accelerating due to increased consumer spending and a rebound in business investment. Consumer...
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Corporate Bond Mid-Year Outlook: Further Price Gains Unlikely
by Colin Martin, CFA, Director, Fixed Income, Schwab Center for Financial Research, Charles Schwab and Company, Inc. Corporate fixed income investments such as corporate bonds and preferred securities...
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by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang Data is like coffee shops. These days it is everywhere...
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by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas Across the taxonomy of investment products, the hedge fund category invokes some rather...
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by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Charlie Munger The future is full of possibilities, some good some bad. Risk comes from not knowing which of them...
View ArticleThe Law of Unintended Consequences
by The Algonquin Team, Algonquin Capital The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Proverb One of the great dilemmas in moral philosophy is whether actions should be judged based on their...
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Tight Credit Spreads: A Double-Edged Sword
by Ryan Detrick, LPL Research High-yield corporate bonds have performed impressively so far this year, with the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond Index returning 7.2% year to date (as of October 9,...
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The Stealthy Success of European High Yield
by Neuberger Berman Fixed Income Investment Strategy Committee You might be surprised to learn that European high yield bonds were the top-performing credit market over the 10-year period ended August...
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