Comments on Triaging My Way To Financial Success: Fixed Income Alternatives:

Definitely a concern then. I use my bond fund to h...

2009-05-31T22:07:19.555-04:00

Definitely a concern then. I use my bond fund to hedge stocks, typically selling on a "bad" stock day to pick up more shares of whatever good companies are on sale that day. If I can't flip the bond shares quickly that's a real disadvantage.

I haven't sold any of the positions yet (see Fixed...

2009-05-30T17:47:42.118-04:00

I haven't sold any of the positions yet (see Fixed Income Alternatives, Update I) and when I bought them (because of the market turmoil) the volumes for each were well above "normal".

The volumes, for each, can range from only a few hundred shares to a few thousand so it depends on how comfortable you are holding them. My perpception is that they are medium-long term investments with my target of holding them for 3-5 years at a minimum. Getting out in a hurry might be a problem if you own a few thousand shares, but I only hold about 100-200 of each so I'm much less exposed to the liquidity risk.

These are really interesting, certainly the first ...

2009-05-30T17:31:55.599-04:00

These are really interesting, certainly the first time I've heard of something like it. It looks like I can purchase the shares through Zecco and I think I'd be interested in doing that, at least using part of the money I set aside for my bond fund. What is the liquidity risk, are they hard to sell quickly?

I certainly don't advocate that an investor in...

2009-03-18T20:05:00.000-04:00

I certainly don't advocate that an investor invest in any of these CorTS' without having done a heavy amount of research on them first.

I will posting shortly a Bond Guide where I plan to give out all the good information/sites that I've come across in my own research.

Fixed income is a vital component of my overall portfolio and investing activities. FI represents a small allocation (<20%) but what I've done is hopefully gained a better yield for the risk I'm taking vs. investing in Governments at this time which yield (in real terms) virtually nothing. The additional upside of any capital gains apart from the initial yield is also an incentive vs. cash.

These are all pretty intricate debt instruments. W...

2009-03-18T14:14:00.001-04:00

These are all pretty intricate debt instruments. Whats wrong with the good old bonds?

Speaking of bonds what good sites if any did you find to get quotes or info on corporate bonds?

It seems that the time to be buying bonds would have been in the past? Interest rates can't go much lower and when the rise bonds should fall in price. I suppose one can hope that interest rates stay here for the next few years, which may happen.

DH