Fair enough. You may also want to check out Australia. While Canada's currency and stock market is well correlated with oil prices, Australia's are well correlated with iron ore prices; that's their primary export, mostly to China, from what I understand. And like Canada, it supposedly has a major r...

I invested in EWC in 2014 and have recently liquidated my investment. Taking dividends into account, I incurred a small loss. I simply believe that it was and still is a bad investment. The biggest reason is that it is a USD-denominated ETF invested in CAD-denominated stocks. Therefore it is directl...

Austria has issued today 3.5bn euros worth of a 100 year government bond. It is due to mature in 2117. It pays interest 2.11% annually. It has a duration of 44 years. According to Bloomberg: This new 100 year will be the most price-sensitive bond that exists. In any currency. Will this become the go...

dualstow wrote:Assuming you get your money back, you buy this instead of a Vanguard corp bond fund like VCIT when you have a time-related goal?

Pretty much.

I really like Guggenheim's defined-maturity ETFs for this reason: http://gi.guggenheiminvestments.com/products/etf/product-list They don't have any for Treasuries, though, but I hope they'll have them in the future. Looks interesting. I clicked one, and it says " The Fund does not seek to retu...

If you have a bond fund, and interest rates rise, you immediately see a decrease in the share price. So you "feel" a loss. You may say, "Ah, jeez, I wish I had been holding individual bonds, which I could just hold to maturity!" But if you really did hold these individual bonds ...

I really like Guggenheim's defined-maturity ETFs for this reason:

http://gi.guggenheiminvestments.com/pro ... oduct-list

They don't have any for Treasuries, though, but I hope they'll have them in the future.

The title of the article is pretty misleading. You become richer by having more wealth, not by having more bank deposits. The increase in wages is also nothing to shout about. If the figures in the article are nominal, then private sector wages are up by ~6% in the last 5 years, while inflation has ...

At the moment, 0.47%, but it was negative not so long ago.

Swiss PP performance in 2016: - The SPI (stock index) is down 1.4% (up 2.7% in 2015) - The longest Swiss government bond (maturity in 2064) is up 10.9% (up 2.4% in 2015) - A UBS ETF invested in physical gold is up 11.9% (down 11.4% in 2015) - Cash is 0%. (also in 2015) A 4x25 portfolio would yield a...

You should focus on duration rather than maturity. It is a more accurate measure of the bond's volatility. If a 100Y Treasury bond were issued today, its rate would obviously be higher than the 30Y rate, i.e. at least 3%. This implies a duration of at most 32 years. At the moment, as far as I know, ...

A misleading chart. The 10 year rate is forward-looking, and they use the present core inflation to deflate.

It is more appropriate to looks at 10 year TIPS:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFII10

That chart doesn't take into account differences in the inflation and also something called the "term premium". Take a look at the second chart here:

http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.co.i ... ation.html

- The longest Swiss government bond (maturity in 2064) is up 30.6%. Thanks indeed for the update, always interesting to see how the PP is doing in other parts of the world. Could you tell me what the coupon rate is on the Swiss LTT? (I'm guessing its a bond from 2014?) Yup. The bond's details are: ...

ZROZ is even "heavier" than EDV. Use with caution.

The fall in Treasury yields also impacted the mortgage market. The average interest rate for a 30 year fixed interest mortgage is 3.48%, pretty close to its all-time low in 2013.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

Swiss PP performance in first half of 2016: - The SPI (stock index) is down 3.9%. - The longest Swiss government bond (maturity in 2064) is up 30.6%. - A UBS ETF invested in physical gold is up 23%. - Cash is 0%. A 4x25 portfolio would yield a 12.4% profit year to date. The annualized YTD profit is ...

Entire stock of Swiss bond yields turns negative : The topsy-turve world of government bond markets has just hit a new milestone. As of today, Switzerland’s entire stock of government debt is now trading at negative yields – with the last to go a bond that does not mature for almost 50 years. Yield...

The 50Y Swiss bond keeps on rising! The yield is now at -0.02%. Whoever bought that bond two years ago is up almost a 100% now!

Actually, Switzerland's 50 year bond has a 2% annual coupon rate - the bond was issued two years ago, before the NIRP craze. So its duration is "just" 36.5 years.

Anyway, the yield on that bond just went down to zero percent. That's it, guys. We're finished.

40 and 50 year bond yields of Switzerland are now both at 0.04%. Ignoring possible changes in price, this means that the cumulative yield of the 50 year bond is just about 2%. Two percent for 50 years of sitting on a bond.

There are now just two Swiss government bonds left that still have a positive yield. One is a 2058 (41 years) bond that yields 0.02% and the other is a 2064 (almost 50 years) bond that yields 0.06%. Also, German Bunds... https://next-geebee.ft.com/image/v1/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Ffastft...

All Swiss government bonds with maturity of 26 years or lower are now trading at a negative yield.

I've been following the performance of the Swiss PP here:

http://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/foru ... 82#p149882

The year is over, and here's what the Swiss PP did in 2015: - The SPI (stock index) is up 2.68%. - The longest Swiss government bond is up 2.4%. - A UBS ETF invested in physical gold is down 11.39%. - Cash is 0%. A 4x25 portfolio would yield a 1.58% loss in 2015. Here's a quick update on the perfor...