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...“I would always be cautious about any company that does not have its dividend covered,” said Nate Koppikar, a partner at hedge fund Orso Partners, which has bet against Blackstone shares....
...“I think there are risks to credit spreads here.”...
...So the all-in yields are still pretty high because the Fed rate is still pretty high. It’s at a 20-whatever-year high....
...Investors poured record sums into high-yield bond exchange traded funds in November as investors rediscovered their appetite for risk....
...On PIMCO side, I mean, obviously, I don’t have a crystal ball. So that’s not an easy one to estimate, I will say. But what we see is clearly and you already see that as well partially in 2023....
...But when yields hit those sorts of notable highs, the question around whether it is really worth buying stocks when you can bake in those returns on risk-free bonds becomes sharper....
...Unusually high temperatures have also hit production of coffee beans, providing another avenue for quant funds to profit....
...I remember, actually, I mean, back in the day when I was managing high-yield bonds, one of the trickiest, weirdest times was when WorldCom — do you remember WorldCom?...
...Last autumn, Treasury yields hit a 16-year high....
...High and volatile US treasury yields — which underpin pricing in financial markets — risk adding to global rate pressures....
...However, on Wednesday, the gold price reached a record high of $2,295 per troy ounce. I think that’s a “klaxon” signalling it’s time to examine the reasons for holding it....
.... — 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, which...
...Hedge fund drama on the high seas I twisted the arm of my excellent colleague Costas Mourselas into boiling down the intriguing story he did last week with Robert Wright, about two things that never seem...
...Private pension funds constitute half of the UK institutional market and the rise in bond yields since the pandemic is now delivering a double whammy to managers’ revenues....
...“A fee skirmish broke out in high-yield index ETFs in July, when [Charles] Schwab entered the high-yield bond market at the same price as the lowest-cost high-yield bond ETF [State Street’s high-yield bond...
...By the time more high-yield bonds start maturing, in 2026-28, I suspect that a good portion of the high-yield bond market will look pretty healthy. Compare that to IG....
...Do I want to take, say, double B credit risk for another 1.9 per cent of yield on top of that, especially when high-yield default rates, while low, are rising?...
...US markets: Bond yields jumped, stocks slid and markets pushed back their forecasts after US inflation rose to 3.5%. 5....
...“I was surprised to see that active funds have outperformed passive but the reason can be seen in the dividend yield,” Miller said....
...Nor had she heard of Nvidia (to the uninitiated, I agree the AI chipmaker does sound like a face cream) even though these seven stocks account for a growing chunk of passive funds favoured by hands-off investors...
...I buy the 10-year at 4.5 per cent and spot is 5.2 per cent; every day I’m writing a cheque. For grandma, it’s an opportunity cost. For the hedge fund, it’s a cash cost. You’re underperforming....
...Richard Crawford, head of energy income funds at Infrared Capital Partners, which advises the London-listed The Renewables Infrastructure Group, said: “I think it’s fair to say that [renewable] investment...
...At nearly 12 per cent it dwarfs the 7.5 per cent that US high-yield bonds pay, and is close to the effective yield of super-junky triple-C bonds....
...“The FCA have intentionally tried to set a high bar and I think they have got it right,” he said, welcoming the prospect of fund managers having to step up their engagement activities in order to qualify...
...However, the overwhelming bulk of the assets will be invested in an actively managed portfolio of bonds, much of it in relatively high-yielding bank loans, high-yield bonds and emerging markets debt, to...
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