Effective immediately, the 9th Floor shall be converting itself into a bond trading desk.
Under martial penalty, every comment made herein must contain in the least sense an oblique mention of at least one of the following terms:
1) Coupons (shopping excluded)
2) Face value (sexist remarks made in good fun will be admissible)
3) Maturity (not in the passing of the prepubescent into adulthood sense of the word)
4) Yield (no crop talk)
Effective immediately, every other post will just be a chart of US Treasuries.
Welcome to hell, boys and girls.
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What about reits -They are bond
cousins.In Virginia they can have babies together
Bonds really suck – I did an analysis of a diversified portfolio over the past 15 years and found that while having bonds as 25% of the portfolio rebalanced annually did significantly reduce volatility, it also brought down returns – best returns were to stay 100% aggressive grwth across a range of assets (foreign and domestic). This covered 1996 – 2014 FYI and looked at 5 different mutual funds.
(laughter) I know I’m only kidding.
I own some Arch Coal bonds that have the highest risk/reward of anything in my portfolio.
Wish I still had stock in ACI though.
Ok .just bought EDD .What could
wrong-emerging markets.Dividend
north of 10.Risk on.
Many of you are in deep violation of the new edicts.
I feel I own some hclp hi yield rate reset bonds that will convert back to normal dividend equity… someday.