PCF News and Press, High Income Securities Fund From 01/16/19

In this three-part series, Matt Tucker overturns some commonly held assumptions about the relationship between interest rates and bond returns. Here, he examines what 30 years of falling rates actually meant for bond investors. One comment you often hear these days is how lucky bond market...

Mike Lanier, who has spent over 35 years in the trenches of the bond market, told me a while back that junk bonds “read like a bond but trade like a stock.” As the most volatile sector of the bond market, they offer significant opportunities to either make or lose a lot of mone...

The last time a U.S. company rated below investment grade issued bonds was in November , marking the longest stretch in more than 20 years in which no junk bonds have been issued. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Cre...

Fahd Malik : I think the most important thing right now more than ever is being diversified. So the high-income investor needs to think about investing in assets outside of [the] US. Fahd Malik : The US central bank is ahead of other G10 banks in terms of the credit cycle. So that cou...

I must admit that I don't pay as much attention to fixed-income markets as I do to equity markets, other than to use numbers from the markets as inputs when I value companies or look at equity markets. This year, I decided to look at bond market movements, both in the sovereign bond and corpor...

By Rachel Siu Following a tumultuous market environment in 2018, we discuss three key takeaways for investors to consider in the New Year. For most investors, 2018 was likely a year to forget: global equity markets ended the year deep in the red and most fixed income sectors delivered ...

By Adam Hetts, CFA What is the path forward for diversified fixed-income portfolios? Our Portfolio Construction and Strategy team discusses how the simplest solution for navigating the asset class may be rooted in a goals-based approach. Following an unprecedented peri...

Original Post Crescat Capital December 31, 2018, update to investors below. We are happy to report estimates for Crescat's 2018 performance: Profit Attribution by Theme Investment Outlook Summary September 20, 2018, should mark the closing high for the S&P 500 to end the s...

As equity prices have cratered in the last several trading days, one area of the market that has predictably come under selling pressure is high yield credit. The chart below shows the 50-day rate of change in spreads on high yield bonds relative to treasuries. When spreads are rising, it indi...

The Junk-Bond Market Just "Puked." Risk is getting repriced. And rather suddenly. What are the real-world consequences? And how will it impact stocks? The Fed has warned about them, and investors fear a run-on-the-fund. Read… $1.3 Trillion "Leveraged Loan" Boom Comes Read...