Fixed Income Quotes

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

I used to picture myself as the old guy eating the Early Bird Specials in the mall.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

An annuity is a very serious business.

See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

I mainly believe in investing in property, creating a balance between property, equity and FDs.

We don't understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.

The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one from equity account. And you want them to grow over time.

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.