Sawyer Capital ManagementThe Truth About Credit Premiums – Sawyer Capital Management https://www.sawcap.com Evolutionize Web Site Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 The Truth About Credit Premiums https://www.sawcap.com/2016/01/11/the-truth-about-credit-premiums/ https://www.sawcap.com/2016/01/11/the-truth-about-credit-premiums/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:00:15 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=2516 Interest rates, which have sat at or near historical lows during the past seven years, have led many investors to seek additional yield in the form of credit risk. The recent trend, and its popularity, gives us an opportunity to determine if this risk historically has been rewarded by examining the credit risk premium in...

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]]> Interest rates, which have sat at or near historical lows during the past seven years, have led many investors to seek additional yield in the form of credit risk. The recent trend, and its popularity, gives us an opportunity to determine if this risk historically has been rewarded by examining the credit risk premium in investment-grade as well as high-yield corporate bonds.

To measure the credit risk premium, my colleague Brian Haywood first looked at how investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds have performed relative to Treasurys:

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