Showing posts with label fixed income. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fixed income. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Federal Reserve Rate Rise Waiting Game

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The anticipation over the Federal Reserve's likely target rate increase is approaching fever pitch, at least for a few thousand economi...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Financial Sarcasm Roundup for 06/16/14

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Fixed income investors deserve some sarcasm today.  Low interest rates have lulled them into thinking that bond valuations can only go up. ...
Monday, June 02, 2014

Financial Sarcasm Roundup for 06/02/14

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Read my words and discover the contempt I have for humanity.  Stupid losers are everywhere.  They deserve nothing but my sarcasm. Pimco...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

SIFIs Make Double-Dumb Bet On Fixed Income

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The biggest investment banks prove they are willing to follow the bond market to oblivion.   They have just doubled-down on reorganizations...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Really Dumb Alternative Income Hedges

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I frequently gripe about the nearsightedness of fixed-income portfolio managers and their investors.  It seems to me that the best they can...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Limerick of Finance for 07/17/13

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Fed can't keep inflation away Spike in real rates can't be kept at bay Debt investors beware So much risk is out there Hard ass...

Fixed Income Facts and Fancy When Staring Down Inflation

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An acquaintance got me thinking about the fixed-income universe.  I haven't thought about it much lately for good reason.  Fixed-income...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Alpha-D Updates for 11/19/12

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This month's portfolio update was extremely simple.  All of the options I wrote last month expired unexercised.  I renewed the short co...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Thoughts On Master Limited Partnership ETFs

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The prospect of hyperinflation demands due consideration of hard asset alternatives in a portfolio.  I've been exploring master limited...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Money Market Fund "New Rules"

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Comedian Bill Maher popularized the catch phrase "new rule" to describe some cultural truism that cries out for instant change. ...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Updating The Alpha-D Portfolio For Nov. 2010

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Here's what I didn't change this month.  I maintain my long puts against LMT (hedging the defense bubble) and IYR (hedging the hous...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

More Junk Bonds For A Junk Economy

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Corporate borrowers with nary a chance of repaying debt are taking advantage of record low interest rates to sell junk bonds: U.S. compa...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Want More Yield? Look Outside U.S.

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Fixed income investors fed up with the Fed's ZIRP may wish to look elsewhere for additional yield, like Down Under: Australia’s centra...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Crime Doesn't Pay . . . For Some People

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Note to fraudsters: You can't always get away with ripping off your clients : After months of secretly working with the FBI, Bernard Mad...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Taking Risk at the Wrong Time

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The small investor is jumping on the wrong bandwagon at the wrong time : Lately, however, as stock and bond markets have rebounded, mutu...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Swensen Model Jumps On Inflation Bandwagon

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Some of the smartest money managers in the business haven't looked so smart since last September. Maybe now they're getting smart a...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Rebalancing the Alpha-D for May '09

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I added to my long holdings of FXI and GDX as further signs of my conviction that China and gold are the best things to own in Great Depr...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Haiku of Finance for 11/26/08

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A few random thoughts On fixed-income ETFs Become one long post

Fixed Income Bond Funds Might be as Dumb as ETFs

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I'd like to continue my train of thought from yesterday about the difficulty of using instruments like ETFs to actively manage exposure ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A Brief Comment on the Pointlessness of Fixed-Income ETFs

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Here's a repost of something I posted to Seeking Alpha now that I've expanded my reach there : Fixed income ETFs make little sense t...