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… who bought T-bonds has moved to investment grade corporates ( LQD ), the guy who bought IG is now in high-yield ( HYG , JNK ), and so on (glasses clink in the FOMC board room). Their largest position is Sprint Nextel ( S ) - as fans of Masayoshi …

… over , but isn't expecting a 1994-like meltdown in Treasurys. He instead thinks Treasurys ( TLT ) and corporates - both investment-grade ( LQD ) and high-yield ( HYG , JNK ) - won't move much over the coming 12 months. 1 comment!

By Ploutos : With monetary accommodation from the Federal Reserve now always prefaced with the word "extraordinary," it is not surprising that we are seeing new records throughout the fixed income universe. The speculative grade bond market set a new record last week with the yield-to-worst on the

By Stone Fox Capital: While Prospect Capital Corporation ( PSEC ) continues to report record originations, the company is failing to pull those numbers to the net investment income (NII) line. Not only did the last quarter show essentially flat NII, but also it occurred on a substantially higher ...

By Ray Merola : An old investment principle goes something like this: "The rate of return sought by the investor should be proportionate to the amount of risk he / she is prepared to accept." I respectfully see things a bit differently. I believe that investment returns are more or less dependent

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… down from 5.7% at year end, and 6.1% a year ago. Investment-grade paper ( LQD ) came in at 3%, speculative ( HYG , JNK ) at 6.3%. New issuance in Q1 was $259.5B, putting 2013 on pace with 2012's record activity. Rating activity remains …

By Ploutos : In January 2013, I began authoring a monthly series on momentum strategies within the fixed income universe. In past articles, I have highlighted momentum strategies across asset classes that have produced excess returns per risk borne, or alpha, over long-time intervals. Momentum ...