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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields mixed despite social turmoil
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Long U.S. Treasury yields ended last week slightly higher, while shorter-maturity yields finished lower.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise on hopes for a vaccine
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U.S. Treasury yields rose last week, as investors expressed optimism regarding developing a COVID-19 vaccine. The first 20-year Treasury issue in decades was auctioned on Wednesday, with the issue’s yield ending the week slightly lower.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields decline on dismal consumer data
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Treasury yields fell last week, led by longer maturities. Markets focused on a record monthly decline in core consumer goods, despite better-than-expected sentiment and manufacturing data.
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Weekly Wire: It’s always darkest before the dawn
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It is one thing to understand we are living through an unprecedented, pandemic driven economic downturn, and all together another to learn the US unemployment rate is 14.7% and that 20.5 million of our fellow Americans lost their jobs in April.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yield curve steepens amid risk-friendly sentiment
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10- and 30-year Treasury yields rose last week while shorter maturity rates fell, steepening the Treasury yield curve.
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Nationwide: Valuing annuity benefits for required minimum distribution and Roth conversions purposes
When deferred annuities are owned by qualified accounts these guarantees must be taken into account when calculating required
minimum distributions (RMD) and the taxable amount of a Roth IRA conversion.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Nationwide: The position of life insurance in financial diversification
The importance of a diversified portfolio
Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields plunge as coronavirus fears intensify
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U.S. Treasury yields fell to record lows last week, led by shorter maturities. The yield curve steepened as a result.