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The start of 2012 looks bleak. One need only look at the composition of the portfolios of new investment funds.

Fixed income and money guaranteed. The new year starts with new funds, but with little variety for categories more power in 2011. First of investor fear, the managers remain focused on the design of low-risk products.

Edmond de Rothschild just to launch a new corporate bond fund, called Edmond de Rothschild (EDR) Millésima 2016. The product invests in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds, mostly classified as “investment grade” (investment grade). At most, 35 percent of assets may be invested in high yield bonds. In all cases, the assets will be issued by OECD, the G-20, the European Economic Area and the European Community. The product will expire in October 2016. By sector, relying mainly on the bonds ‘senior’ of industrial and financial companies, denominated in euros.
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Guaranteed fixed income and monopolize the new offerings.

Conservative investors are in luck. The new offerings in the area of collective investment are almost entirely directed at them. The national managers hardly dare to risk assets.

Bankinter has launched the marketing of a new investment fund guaranteed bonds, called Bankinter Guaranteed Fixed Income 2. The product guarantees, in a period of two years (until February 1, 2014), 100 percent of net asset value per share as at January 24, 2012, plus a coupon to maturity of 7.85 percent ( this represents a 3.80 percent APR). The fund will invest in a portfolio of bonds issued or guaranteed by public issuers and corporate bonds with similar maturity to the time horizon of the fund.
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Responses, a directional point of view and according to behavioral finance.

Management directional prediction is not worth much, what matters is the trend. This observational study of trends applies to stock prices, stock market indices, stock sectors, the evolution of the economy, futures, bonds and real estate.

In behavioral finance, what matters is to study the movements caused by the effe herd of investors . This applies to all sectors of the economy.
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The managers of bond portfolios are dynamic on the defensive. Sulking financial securities, they carefully monitor the turbulence caused by the crisis of European sovereign debt, reports Morningstar.

Michael McHugh, who manages the Dynamic Canadian Bond Fund, has a defensive position in its portfolio, with a low average duration and a “reasonable cash component.”

“We will increase the duration of the portfolio if there is government action that mitigate the current preference of investors for liquidity and safety,” he told Morningstar Canada . If this happens, the demand for Canadian long bonds should decrease, which will increase yields, bond prices moving inversely to their yields.
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Today, many do not know yet what is this thing called the stock market news, let alone know what their role or importance, that’s why I decided to write this article. I hope all your questions answered and not just stay with the knowledge, but you can capitalize on this market.

One of the financing options that can have a company that wants to expand and does not have the money to do that is essentially issuing debt or issuing shares in the stock market. An action is part of the social capital of the company, therefore, to create more action and bring them to market, you’re getting money from different people who buy such shares. And by issuing debt in bonds, you are selling your debt (liabilities of the company) at a price and a specified period.
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By launching recently IA Clarington Strategic Corporate Bond, IA Clarington Investments wants to offer customers an alternative to equities.

“The only real alternative to the shares are corporate bonds with high yield. Historically, these securities provide a total return equal to or slightly higher than the shares, with about half the risk. Corporate bonds have a high yield risk-adjusted returns among the highest. If you add to a portfolio a high-yield bonds will increase the yield potential and you reduce the volatility, “said portfolio manager Dan Bastasic in talks with Finance and Investment.

To choose a title, Dan Bastasic has a bottom. It typically favors companies whose bonds are undervalued and that have high cash flow. “We focus on securities that have value on their balance sheets as a switchblade. Ultimately, such as bond, you can first claim the assets of the enterprise being liquidated, “noted Dan Bastasic. It will pay particular attention to fixed-income securities of companies listed, high-performance, on average, between B and BBB.
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Although fixed income indexed to inflation have generally increased by nearly 8% this year, mainly due to the recent flight of investors into safe investments, customers should exercise caution with use this asset class, says Morningstar Canada.

Indeed, they should limit their weighting in this asset class could become less attractive if inflation fears decreased. In addition, real return bonds generally have longer maturities than bonds whose performance is not linked to inflation. Result: these securities are more sensitive to higher interest rates.

Thus, since the beginning of the year, real return bonds, the securities issued by governments, part of which performance is the rate of inflation, saw their prices rise due to increasing uncertainty in the world . The price of these bonds varies in the opposite direction to their performance, the performance of these securities has declined.
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Fees and Expenses

Like Treasury bills with fees and charges accruing the purchase, ownership and sale or redemption at maturity of these assets is significantly more advantageous when we hired through direct accounts when contracts by entities financial.

Methods

Such assets can be divided into three categories depending on the specific characteristics that have the coupon.
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Definition

These assets are those issued by the Treasury to obtain long-term financing. They differ from the Treasury in terms of emissions as well as the liquidation of their interests is explicit.

We tried both products together based on their very similar, varying only their repayment terms.

Time limits which are issued

• Government bonds are issued with maturities of 3 and 5 years.
• The State’s Obligations are issued with maturities of 10, 15 and 30. It can be said therefore that this asset class allows you to save for retirement.

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Placement Bonds: Investment in bonds private or public, an investment in fashion, in full decline in yields from other investments savings … The investment in bonds, the new smoke and mirrors?

A NEED FOR COMPANIES

Since mid-October 2008, interest rates have only dropped. From well over 5% to less than 2% interest rates for short-term rates, yields on deposit accounts, money market mutual funds, and to a lesser extent, savings booklets have melted like snow in the sun. Stock market investments have been rolled by a sharp downward spiral, pushing investors to refuse taking any additional risk.
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