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With all the News of Higher Interest Rates, Don’t Forget About Floating-Rate Debt
The story line for a number of years now has been the “search for yield” and how the recent low-interest-rate environment has been forcing investors down in credit or out the maturity curve in an effort to maintain income though adding risk. Now that interest rates have begun reversing the low-rate environment, fixed-coupon securities may…
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U.S. Preferreds, An Option to Pick A Specialty
Preferred stocks are a class of capital stock that pays dividends at a specified rate and has a preference over common stock in the payment of dividends and the liquidation of assets. The S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index is designed to serve the investment community’s need for an investable benchmark representing the U.S. preferred stock…
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Floating Rate Asset Classes
In the weekend Wall Street Journal (May 3, 2014) there is an informative article entitled “The Risks of Floating Rate Funds”. The article does a great job of delving into the risks of these types of structures and is quite timely as the low rate environment continues. The investor appetite for floating rate assets while facing…
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Putin Today, Shiller Tomorrow, Yellen on Wednesday
Over the course of last week, yields on all on-the-run bonds moved lower. The yield on the S&P/BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index closed Friday 11 basis points lower at a 2.67%. During the week the Treasury did auction $32 billion 2’s, $35 billion 5’s and $29 billion 7-year notes. Though the 2-year auction…
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