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...Bond investors should take the gift. You are being given a second chance to buy duration at a much better yield level than four months ago. Chance of rate rises: zero....
...charged for the bond....
...But if I showed you a bond that was win two, lose one, that’s a better bond! Markets adjust to that bond’s positive convexity, though, so you’d get paid less yield. But how much less yield?...
...This month’s bond rally will have improved things, but here is a chart from Apollo’s latest US bank outlook showing the damage....
...“What we’re seeing across the board is higher volumes and tighter spreads — better access for companies.”...
...headwind. — Bond indices are dumb; by weighting according to size it means a passive fund is tilted towards the most heavily-indebted countries and companies in the world. — Index funds don’t buy at issuance...
...But most importantly — from a systemic risk point of view at least — the incentives are better than they are for traditional bond mutual funds....
...But as our first story today highlights, a divide is emerging between companies that get their carbon reports audited and those that don’t....
...As you can see at right, bank credit is still restricted, but spreads don’t care....
...One concern had been that governments might need to bail out some northern central banks with the highest losses, such as the Dutch one....
...But unless you’re trading or pricing TIPS in size, or with leverage, we probably don’t need to go there....
...Lurking behind these changes at the World Bank is a cloud of resentment from many borrowing countries, who don’t want to be told what to borrow money for and see rich-world lecturing on climate change as...
...And then we would say, well, that’s why we don’t do it....
...But that assumes no defaults; in reality high absolute yields don’t dependably translate to realised returns....
...“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”...
...BM: You have called bonds a big giveaway. Walk me through that, because most people don’t see it that way. SK: What is the real purpose of bonds? We have a floating exchange rate and a fiat currency....
...Who’s afraid of the bond market? US rates are flashing stronger recession signals, even as risky markets have gone on a tear....
...Unable to afford 10 per cent of the $75,000 bond set by a judge — the deposit necessary to satisfy Chicago courts or, in other jurisdictions, to obtain the remainder from a bail bond lender — Flo was incarcerated...
...And it certainly possible that while change of control covenants are super prevalent (the authors of this study reckon well over half of all bonds have them), they don’t actually appear in the bonds that...
...Our view is that it probably won’t, simply because geopolitical disruptions don’t usually matter. As we argued back in October, markets don’t understand war any better than the rest of us....
...“Most people’s marriages don’t last 25 years so, you know, fixing your mortgage for 25 is pretty hopeful.”...
...Do they have better terms than the [bond] market? And can one truly be agnostic about where value is? And the private debt issued by sponsors really needs to be held to maturity....
...“If you don’t have a view on the dollar it makes sense to hedge to eliminate currency risk but most investors don’t seem to think there are benefits,” he added....
...So if Warren Buffett had 90 per cent in equities and added 60 per cent bonds [summing up to greater than 100 per cent because of leverage], I believe he would’ve done better....
...But I guess there just needs to be a better understanding that this is how these things come to life. But so, if it was up to you, what would you do?...
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