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2010年11月16日 星期二

Why you should invest in corporate debt

Profit-hungry investors rejoice: heavy duty here. Experts indicate the market of corporate bonds as a source of generous payouts more attractive to investors. Positives include signs that the worst of the recession is behind us and lower default rates of corporate bonds. Earnings were decent and companies issuing debentures at record levels. It's all good news for investors who are low return on investment, as US Treasuries and money market funds.

By default, the high-yield bonds — or those lower than investment grade — declined sharply. At the end of 2009, the rate of high yields by default was a whopping 13 percent, according to Moody 's. This number was reduced to 5%, and Moody's expects it to drop below 2% until mid-2011."It's a pretty sharp decline," said Sabur Moini, Manager Payden high income (symbol PYHRX). This means that issuers, less likely to default on its debt, and this is good news for investors who are interested in obtaining a portion of their portfolio of corporate bonds.

Over the past 20 years, the default rate among high-yield bond market is around 4%, according to Moini.The high profitability of the market really cleaned up over the past year and half, "he says.Corporations offer debt reached a record level because attractive enough for them to make conditions (e.g., low interest rates). worldwide Moini expects that there will be more than 200 billion dollars in high-yield is often referred to as "junk" bonds instructions at the end of the year, a total of production this year has already surpassed the record 185 billion in 2009.

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Put this in context, yields in many different places on the bond market.At present, the 10-year Treasury bond Yields are 2.6. historically much higher: in mid-2007 when economic growth was much more powerful and demand for Treasuries were much smaller, 10-year Treasuries yielding five per cent. Because many traditional bond funds, which provide exposure to the investment level universe great on treasuries, they now offer a relatively low yields.For example, the vanguard total bond market ETF (BND), which covers the range of investment grade bonds, which make up the aggregate bond index Barclays Capital U.S. currently produces 3.5%, according to Morningstar.About 70% of the Fund's assets are in treasuries, government agencies and State mortgage-backed securities.

Experts say that they don't offer enough impact corporate debt. Now more attractive yields can be found in the corporate bond funds. "At that point and time, when we get that economic news to better, maybe there is a danger for higher interest rates, and that is going to make treasuries? "says Tom Lydon, etftrends.com Editor. "Today, we see more money going to corporate bonds, where you can get yields more than long-term treasuries which do not have the interest rate risk, if we start to see a surge of momentum "When betting finally grow investments like treasuries will suffer.(That's because when interest rates go price goes down).Experts say that they did not see the hike in interest rates in the near future, but rates can only go higher.

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Instead of sticking with low-yielding Foundation, which is a serious asset class as treasuries, Lydon recommends that investors perceive THE ETF as iShares iBoxx $ investment grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD), which currently provides 4% Fund covers medium investment grade corporate bonds Universe for those more specific investment time horizon Lydon said some relatively new offerings, Claymore ETF BulletShares corporate bond ETFs. these seven storage bond maturing in 2011 through 2017.(To be specified, bonds, corporate bonds, all Claymore BulletShares expires in 2011)These ETFs allow investors to buy various combinations of bonds with similar maturity dates instead of selecting individual bonds that can be more time-consuming and expensive. Lydon said Claymore ETFs can be used as part of a laddered approach in which investors buy bonds with a number of different maturity dates from interest rate and credit risks or they can be a good idea to investors with specific investment goals such as the child's College education, Lydon said.


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