Moomin Valley

Count Financial told clients to sell private credit funds managed by Metrics Credit Partners. This crashed the share price of MOT.AX, one of...

Following on from yesterday's post, I did some research on Australian Bank Hybrids. Essentially, a hybrid is a convertible bond. At a ce...

MCP Income Opportunities Fund (MOT.AX). Share of net worth: 1.75%. IRR: 14.8%. This fund invests in Australian private credit. It yields ar...

At this point we have probably finished expanding our allocation to bonds and from here the share will fall again. So, I thought it would ...

Bought my first US corporate bond - a Santander UK bond maturing on 14 March. This supposedly gives a yield per annum of about 2.85%, whi...

Interactive Brokers currently pays 1.7% interest on U.S. Dollars. But U.S. government bonds pay more than that and are supposedly risk free,...

As a place to park Australian Dollars cash until I can move it out of Interactive Brokers, I bought some PERLS XI hybrid bank securities...

UBS recommending 34% allocation to US fixed income. I guess this might makes sense if they mean treasury bills (90 day maturity). Don'...

Buffett speaking in India In a recent post I referenced the Credit Suisse report that argues quite reasonably that long-term bonds are unli...

This is the other bond fund in my Mom's portfolio. It has done very well in recent years, though it didn't do much just after we bou...

This is my Mom's largest single investment at 12.6% of the portfolio. It wasn't planned this way. I instructed Citibank to buy a giv...

Interesting discussion from John Hussman about changes in "duration" and the optimal allocation between stocks and bonds in a por...

More evidence that in Gross' opinion the recent bear market in bonds is over.

These guys' Q1 report - highlighted in John Mauldin's latest letter - has an identical viewpoint to my own on inflation, bonds etc...

Great article from Bill Gross explaining why the bear market in bonds (equals rising long term bond rates) should be almost over. It's ...