Invesco: Pick your spots in high-yield
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 2:49PM CST
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Are Investors Underestimating The Risks In Emerging Market Bonds?
Lipper Insight at Thomson Reuters - Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 8:09AM CST
By Detlef Glow During their chase for yield, a number of investors have added emerging-market bonds to their portfolios, since these bonds seemed to be fairly valued and offered a yield suiting the needs of the investors. But, as always in a long...
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Weakening Currencies Put Developing Countries' Debt At Risk
Global Risk Insights - Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 30, 4:25PM CST
Debts issued in foreign currencies, some of which are not counted in official statistics, are a rising risk to developing economies as the U.K. and U.S. get closer to raising rates. With the Swiss National Bank abandoning the Swiss franc's peg to...
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What Does Russia's Junk Rating Mean?
Mohamed El-Erian - Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 28, 8:47AM CST
This post originally appeared on Bloomberg View Standard & Poor's announced Monday that it downgraded Russia's sovereign debt to junk status. Here is a Q&A on the significance of the move. QUESTION: What is the immediate impact of...
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Are Foreign Bonds Worth The Risk?
Cullen Roche - Seeking Alpha - Fri Dec 19, 11:14PM CST
Excellent piece here by Michael Batnick on foreign bonds. Michael and I both agreed that John Bogle was wrong to say that an investor should shun foreign stocks, but what about foreign bonds? There's a lot to like about foreign bonds. Russell...
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Pick And Mix: Fresh Ideas For Diversifying Bond Exposure
AllianceBernstein - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Nov 27, 4:05AM CST
By John Taylor Policy backdrops and growth trajectories around the world are showing increasing signs of divergence. Yet many bond investors continue to congregate in a few selected pockets of the fixed income universe. In our view, it's a perfect...
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Emerging Markets Opportunity Still Emerging: A Look At Valuations
ValueWalk - Seeking Alpha - Wed Nov 19, 7:10AM CST
By LPL Financial The S&P 500 Index hit another set of fresh record highs last week (November 10?–?14, 2014) and has achieved the midpoint of our total return forecast (10?–15%) for the year with a 12% return year to date. While we...
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More Emerging Economies Enter Bond Markets
Global Risk Insights - Seeking Alpha - Mon Nov 10, 5:35PM CST
By Brian Daigle Countries across Africa and Latin America have expressed a desire to begin or expand the sale of government bonds. Markets seem willing to take them up on their offer. Interest in the sale of international government bonds has...
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First Trust rolls out 3 new funds
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Nov 05, 12:27PM CST
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