Our last three lessons have looked at three emerging bond portfolios. This lesson contains an interesting fact about the currency values. The first was a portfolio of euro denominated bonds backed by five governments that pays and average yield of 5.95% Short term bonds denominated in Euro issued by major market governments pay about 4.25%.  This means [...] [Read Emerging Currency Bonds]

Posted on 03 October 2008.

Multi currency emerging bonds denominated in the US dollar and euro can increase yields by 50% to 100%. Two recent multi currency messages about multi currency bonds showed how to get numerous governments to guarantee dollar and euro denominated bonds. They pay 50% to 100% more than local government bonds of the same maturity. However if you [...] [Read Multi Currency Emerging Bonds]

Posted on 03 October 2008.