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Where Are the PIGS Now, Minus the G?
Over the past five years, the more worrisome government-issued debt in Europe has made significant progress in managing the normal mechanism of higher-perceived risk equaling higher yields. The Wall Street Journal focused on Portugal’s debt in their article, “Decade of Easy Cash Turns Bond Market Upside Down”. Quantitative easing (QE) by the European Central Bank…
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SPIVA® Europe Scorecard 2014: How did active funds perform versus their benchmarks?
Published every six months, the SPIVA Europe Scorecard aims to measure the performance of active funds against their corresponding benchmarks. The results for the Year-End 2014 Scorecard are now in, and they reveal few surprises. Euro-Denominated Funds In spite of a slight improvement in the last quarter of the year, growth in Europe for the…
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Real Yield and a 14% Return … O Canada
The S&P Canada Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Index has returned 1.8% month-to-date and an outstanding 14.87% year-to-date. Investors of inflation-linked bonds are interested in the real yield which measures a bond’s yield adjusted for inflation. Canadian inflation (2.1%) has recovered in recent months from the low end of the Bank of Canada’s 1% to 3% target…
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Is 3% The New Black?
As with each summer’s fashion a new color of dress becomes the “new black”. Pink, green, orange, you make the choice. In regard to the bond markets the question could be is 3% the new black? Bill Gross seems to think so, he is calling for economic growth and yields to remain slow and low,…
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