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Decoding Duration - The Key to fixed income investing success
Navigating bond investments may appear complex, yet grasping some essential principles can greatly enhance your investment strategy. Learn more about duration – the secret sauce of fixed income investing.
U.S. Preferreds for High Quality Income
U.S. preferred shares have had a strong year, with the U.S. Preferred Index returning 14.4% over the past year to August 31, 2024. Although prices have moved up, yield to maturity (YTM) for U.S. Preferreds remain near their highest levels in the past decade and are among the highest-yielding North American fixed income categories.
What Every Investor Should Know About Taxation Of Fixed Income ETFs
Fixed income ETFs have long been an important staple in investor portfolios, offering the potential for steady income and relatively low volatility. Understanding how ETFs are taxed is an important part of your investment plan. In today’s session we explore the fixed income ETF market and current interest rate environment and learn how discount bonds can be an attractive fixed income solution for managing taxation in non-registered accounts.
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Money Market And Short-Term Fixed Income
A “great migration to cash” has been triggered by the flurry of inflows into fixed income and cash alternatives. After years of being a forgotten segment of the market, how and why are they the leading asset gatherer?
2019 Bulls versus 1970s Bears: What Does it Mean for Investors in 2022?
2022 has been a challenging year for investors. When faced with periods of uncertainty, investors naturally look to the past to try and glean patterns that could be used to infer the future.
Are central banks losing their credibility on fighting inflation?
Markets could be losing faith in dovish narratives that seem to have been anchoring interest rates.
Learn more about how bond investors can protect their portfolio in period of rising interest rates.
Limited Recourse Capital Notes (LRCNs): Part Bond, Part Preferred Share?
Introduced to the Canadian marketplace almost two years ago LRCNs are hybrid securities that can be described as part-bond, part-preferred share.
Learn how to distinguish value between LRCNs, preferred shares and traditional bonds.
How to Interest-Rate-Proof your Fixed Income: Understanding Floating Rate Notes
For investors wanting to maintain exposure to fixed income and at the same time decrease exposure to negative price volatility from rising interest rates, one solution to consider is the floating rate note.
Is your bond portfolio prepared for rising interest rates?
Canadian inflation is at its highest level in decades and interest rates could move higher.
Passive bond market indices could be in trouble.
So Long, “Lower for Longer”
For well over a decade, market sentiment has been that we are in an environment where we need to navigate around the reality that interest and inflation rates are going to be “lower for longer”. Investment firms, insurance companies, banks and others braced for this reality, wondering if the next year would in fact be different.