Our latest insights on bond market activity and events affecting the investment landscape.
Duration: 3:10
Transcript: Volatility is generating an opportunity. If you are looking to put money to high grade securities, if you’re looking to protect your wealth, or if you’re looking for tax advantage type stuff, it might be a good time to take a look at munis.
Duration: 2:24
Transcript: If we have an exemption that goes away, Municipalities would have to compete against say corporate bonds as an example. We’ve been asked a lot about tax exemption on municipal bonds.
Duration: 4:17
Transcript: If you’re looking to buy higher grade securities with a higher rate of return, then you might consider going out a little further. If you are only seeking to build a ladder, one to five years in this example, we can certainly help you with that.
Duration: 2:01
Transcript: We primarily try to stick with double a rated paper or higher. The reason being is that we feel comfortable with overall credit qualities, double a rated or higher due to the low default rate on those securities.
Duration: 2:49
Transcript: I got in the business August of nineteen ninety four, and my introduction to the business was Orange County filing bankruptcy. That was a very big moment in the municipal bond world.
Duration: 2:11
Transcript: When you’re working with a team that understands the municipal bond world and that also understands credit ratings, credit quality, claims paying ability, specific insurance companies, what to buy and more probably more importantly, what not to buy.
Duration: 4:48
Transcript: Understand the underlying asset and what’s being, generated payment, what payment is being generated from that underlying asset. So we’ve been we’ve been asked a lot about the difference between revenue bonds and general obligation bonds.
Duration: 2:48
Transcript: With over three decades of doing one thing, we believe we can provide valuable insight on what’s going on in the bond markets. And if you are listening to this and if you’re signed up on our lists, you receive various data points from us. We typically send out something every Thursday.