| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subject: Bonds Bonds are any interest-bearing or discounted debt security that normally obliges the issuer to pay the bondholder a contracted sum of money and to repay the principal amount of the debt. Q3 2005 By John Schroy, on February 21st, 2006 |  Leave a comment  Life insurance companies invest pension and life insurance reserves primarily in bonds, according to Federal Reserve Flow of Funds Table F 117 for Q3 2005. Although favoring agency securities and treasuries in 2002, life insurers quickly returned to their traditional investment behavior of buying mostly corporate bonds. Since 1997, pension funds have become the principal business of life insurance companies, as indicated by the relative size of life insurance and pension funds reserves. February 21st, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Bonds, Inflation, insurance company, mutual funds, pension fund, pension plans | Category: US Bonds | Leave a comment |  Short urlUS Bond Market By John Schroy, on February 20th, 2006 | Leave a comment  This article describes the factors that influence the four primary US bond markets: Treasuries, Agencies, Municipals, and Corporates. The analysis indicates that a high percentage of the supply side of the bond market is opportunistic and sensitive to interest rates, which explains why long-term interest rates have been relatively stable, despite increasing demand. This analysis also suggests that should the flow of funds from the trade deficit suddenly dry up, the first impact would be a rapid reduction in the size of the residential mortgage market, rather than a sharp increase in interest rates. February 20th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Bonds, capital flow analysis, Fannie Mae, municipal bonds, US Treasury | Category: US Bonds | Leave a comment | Short urlUS Bond Market 1995-2004 By John Schroy, on February 18th, 2006 | Leave a comment  Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. In most years, buyers had to go to the secondary market to get all the bonds they wanted. On the demand side, steady buying pressure, accounting for about two-thirds of the market, has come from foreign investors, insurance companies, federal, state, and local governments, and banks and savings institutions — each acting for difference reasons. February 18th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Bonds, China, Fannie Mae, insurance company, municipal bonds, mutual funds, US Treasury | Category: US Bonds | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
|    Capital Flow Watch has hundreds of articles on economics and investments. Articles have excerpts on the front pages, and on tag, category, search and archive pages. 
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Copyright © 2010 Capital Flow Watch - All Rights Reserved | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Popular Articles