Investing In Corporate Bonds : High Yield Investments

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[@Jalleur14325]

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[@Oasisfan432]

Saturdays are better with a pensioncraft upload!

[@Pensioncraft]

Thanks so much - glad you enjoy it @Oasisfan432

[@je_suis_onur]

Very educational video, as always. Thanks Ramin. A small suggestion though. Normal investors don't typically buy individual corporate bonds. So a video about bond ETFs would be much more valuable, as it is easier to buy them and they have different characteristics due to the fact that they're diversified by default and sometimes they have duration restrictions too. Keep up the good work!

[@ebrahimhabib477]

I think it’s much better to buy the corporate bond fund rather of buying individual ones

[@thetjt]

How do you feel about buying currently 25+ year European Gov Bond ETFs? ...Before ECB rate cut(s). There are couple of these (acc) etf's availble in Europe; one by xtrackers and one by Amundi. Duration whopping 21 years, while there might be minor problem with liquidity as they are "only" 200m funds. Would be interesting to hear an opinion / see a video about this, with some info on how long rates move in Euro area... do they follow ECB cuts or do US rates affect them as much... are there other factors which effect EU long yields. Largest countries included in these etfs are France, Gremany, Italy and , Spain. Buying some would probably be good in recession/crash... but naturally the biggest worry is if that crash comes with resurgent inflation... then pretty much all assets are scr-d ... (apart perhaps gold). Decisions. decisions... I have already a fair chunk of medium duration bond etfs... but they don't give much profit,, although don't lose much either.

[@DJ-nn6wn]

Thanks for this one Ramin, it was very useful to me. Bond ETFs are something I want to know more about as I move toward drawdown.

[@Pensioncraft]

Glad it was helpful @DJ-nn6wn

[@MagicNash89]

The upside for stocks is unlimited, but unleveraged stock downside has a limit - zero.

[@trickyrat483]

Not when your stock losses cause the wife to divorce you and take your house and car. :)

[@GavinLawrence747]

​@@trickyrat483And the dog?

[@actuallythedog263]

Downside is max 100% upside is unlimited … fixed it for you

[@chris-3]

When looking at your stock exposure in isolation, going from 100 to 0 is technically an infinite decline, as 100 is infinitely higher than 0. Same thing on the upside - stocks can grow to infinity, which is infinitely higher than 100.

[@GavinLawrence747]

God tier level financial education! Hope you have a great weekend pensioncraft and pensioncrafters!

[@Pensioncraft]

Thanks @GavinLawrence747

[@jameswalker366]

11:45 Perhaps our friends at C-Bonds should add whether a bond is ‘qualifying’ or not? Worth an ask.

[@shimsteriom4191]

Fantastic overview, thanks Ramin. I like the longer video as well 👌

[@Pensioncraft]

Glad you liked it @shimsteriom4191

[@romeo20maypole68]

Good tier level financial education!

[@ebrahimhabib477]

Super video Raymon Regards from Minneapolis

[@Pensioncraft]

Glad you enjoyed it @ebrahimhabib477

[@jabberwockytdi8901]

Preferred shares next ??

[@malexejev]

what is another biggest company in terms of bonds coverage? you mentioned there are 2

[@_crow8887]

What a man this guy is !!

[@mattinterweb]

Would love to see a Bond ETF specific vid

[@Pensioncraft]

Hi @mattinterweb here's one I made earlier! kzbin.info/www/bejne/epqomoSefb6tf5o

[@ebrahimhabib477]

Yo explained that very well thanks Ramin

[@Pensioncraft]

No problem 👍 @ebrahimhabib477

[@petertang4499]

Is it still a good time to buy government or corporate bonds?

[@DismalScience]

Hi Ramin, have followed your excellent advice and invested in low coupon UK gilts for the tax free capital gain rather than income. Noticed HLansdown also offer ‘’strips’ with no yield at all. Are they even better? Any chance of a video explaining what they are and how they are taxed. Thanks!

[@epmorris]

Gilt strips are subject to taxation, and the process around it seems rather complex

[@k.t.1594]

What if a company misses intentionally a payment, in order not to pay investors and thus profit from their loss? Can this happen or are there safeguards in order to prevent this? Cause in my mind, without having extensive knowledge the company would miss a payment inthentionally and then default (however they would keep the money from the investors the borrowed and thus profit from it) then the only repercussion would be that the company's credit rating would go down. Can this happen?

[@johnwalker8316]

@pensioncraft I find the whole bond space unclear. I think it would help to understand a comparison to a SWR at 4% for a coupon 4% and the principal coming back online at the maturity date. The rest of the detail becomes too much information. In the case of Apple 20yr 4.45 how would GBP 10,000 relate in comparison to 10,000 over 20yrs but drawn down from say a 500,000 pension

[@neilmcgarrity178]

To complex for me I am out 😢

[@xinzhang6241]

Exchange rates should be also taken into account, I think Microsoft, Apple, Johnson are generally less risky, but USD might become soft.

[@jimbojimbo6873]

Im wondering why apple would issue a bond with so much cash on hand

[@Kalarandir]

I am going to guess there are tax benefits and cash returned to the US is taxed.

[@jimbojimbo6873]

What tax benefits?

[@Kalarandir]

@@jimbojimbo6873 Just my best guess.

[@festerarl6653]

Good question @jimbojimbo6873 Back in 2016 Apple had big cash reserves of $67bn, and it's slightly higher now. I know that tax rules have changed over the years and I think that maybe this recently affected some of the advantages of share buy backs in the US but the bottom line is 'I don't know' why they would look to issue a $4bn bond back in 2016.

[@jirwin32]

If I remember correctly they had a lot of cash outside the US and would have to pay US taxes to repatriate, so issuing bonds for dividends and buybacks was more economical than repatriate the cash and using it for dividends and buybacks.

[@Dillingham-]

I can appreciate single company risk, but how risky really is a high yield corporate bond ETF with over 1800 holdings? What is a rational way to assess the risk? For example, USHY in the US market. This lost less than the SP500 in recent downturns, but I do remember what bundles of low-rated mortgages did in the GFC.

[@khiburgess5848]

I'm not sure if this would be a viable strategy to core and satellite bonds, core being a Gilt and Satellites made up of Corporates. I'm then thinking these portfolios could be used to manage sequencing risk and coupons up till maturity could be recycled into ISAs etc assuming it's being held in a trading account

[@festerarl6653]

Enjoyed the video apart from the continual plugs for C Bonds. Understandable I suppose, but this video seems more skewed to the sponsors promotion than others you've produced.