41. Financial companies tend to move with bonds because such companies hold large bond portfolios. 42. Financial services like banks and insurance companies tend to move with bonds because they hold large bond portfolios. 43. Financial shares such as those of banks and insurers are sensitive to declines in the bond market, because they hold large bond portfolios. 44. He continues to hold overweight gilt positions within European bond portfolios. 45. He bought some of the bonds for the high-yield corporate bond portfolio he manages. 46. He likes to think of his players as a bond portfolio, with their skills as interest rates and their contract lengths as maturities. 47. Higher bond yields hurt banks and insurers, which tend to have large bond portfolios. 48. I am leaning toward the idea of establishing the bond portfolio in the taxable accounts and leaving the IRA almost fully invested in stocks and stock funds for growth. 49. I understood that after an initial holding period, I could redeem the bonds at no cost, which would allow me to change strategies within my bond portfolio. 50. In that case, weak Tokyo stocks could hurt bonds by forcing investors to extract more profit from their bond portfolios. |