Posts Tagged ‘rising rates’

Bond bears’ growl is all noise

By Dan Hallett on December 17th, 2012

Type the phrase “bond bear market” into Google and you’ll see a long list of articles proclaiming the certainty of the oncoming bear market in bonds.  I agree that bond yields are artificially low and that bonds are expensive...

The relevance of YTM & the impact of rising rates

By Dan Hallett on July 7th, 2011

Last week, I wrote about not reading too much into distributions paid by bond mutual fund and bond exchange-traded funds.  I admit to being surprised by the sensitive chord this struck with many investors.  In the spirit of brevity and focus, I...

Actively managed ETFs; Protecting against rising rates

By Dan Hallett on March 21st, 2010

ETFs are a hot topic these days.  As Mark and I highlighted in this post, active ETFs could be a game-changer for the investment fund industry.  In this March 20 Financial Post article, I spoke about the good and bad of active ETFs and the threat...

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