You're watching...

Should Investors Add Corporate Bonds to Their Portfolio?

Details

  • Description

    Loomis Sayles & Co. V.P. Kathy Gaffney on the benefits of investing in corporate bonds.

  • Duration 0:59
  • Date

Clips

Also in this playlist...

Stocks & Bonds

Auto-advance: ON

Auto-advance

Transcript

This transcript is automatically generated

-- for the current quarter electronic arts Kathleen beat especially on the while revenue and earnings per share forget the forecast for moment the party -- -- -- Is strong US corporate balance sheets and that's a reason to buy corporate debt what do you seeing what's this sort of recommended that -- you'd look at.

Well I think in on the corporate side there opportunities at the lower end of the investment grade area.

We'll triple -- -- economy is growing may be slowly but it's going in the right direction it's positive says that's a good backdrop.

For taking risk skin and corporate bonds the area that I think is most attractive would be in the high yield -- -- below investment grade.

And there you've got a nice pick up in yield which gives you.

A good cushion the as we know that there are still some risks out there in the market is likely remain volatile but the great thing about bonds is your paid to wait you can be very very patient.

While you collect fiscal balance and on the high yield side that looks like a great area to be and that.