The iShares MBS ETF (NASDAQ:MBB) is not our favorite investment in the current environment at all. We think there are two issues. Firstly, negative convexity in a relatively benign economic scenario, ...
Convexity, which measures interest rate sensitivity and drives the risk and return profiles of fixed income products, is an important concept that investors can utilize to boost total return and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The recent drop in U.S. yields has raised speculation that a wave of buying of Treasury securities and derivative products called interest rate swaps by mortgage portfolio managers ...
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for April, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $366.4 billion, an increase ...
When I was a kid, my parents thought that I should be a doctor or a lawyer. Heck, they should have pointed me toward becoming a loan agent (or a DE underwriter). Don't say we aren't doing our part to ...
Hacked off with soaring housing costs and stubborn mortgage rates? Disgusted by skimpy supply and the fierce bidding wars that are now required to find a decent place to live? If you’re looking for ...
Well, perhaps you’ve pulled up to the right window. After all, a big upside of active fixed income management: risk mitigation, according to npifund-com. Possible problems – before they damage client ...
This developer just secured a nine-figure sum to build out a mixed-use project off Charlotte Avenue. The developers planning more office and retail space for West Nashville’s OneCity project just ...