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wasupaloopa

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1. Their bonds will be in competition with others offering safe risk free returns.

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2019, 04:48 PM

Jan 2019

Investors like pension funds who need to be risk adverse may be pulling money out of the stock market and investing in bonds. Returns on even “safe” investments are falling.

This market will increase pressures on employers with retirement plans to increase their contributions. They could be forcing a move from stocks to bonds rather than have an increasing unfunded pension liability. Fixed rate bonds may be the safest place for those investors to be.

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Warren Buffet/Berkshire Hathaway refinancing $950 Mil to fixed rate long bonds. [View all] A HERETIC I AM Jan 2019 OP

Their bonds will be in competition with others offering safe risk free returns. wasupaloopa Jan 2019 #1

Berkshire has a pretty impressive portfolio. A HERETIC I AM Jan 2019 #2

Very shrewd move IronLionZion Jan 2019 #3

It's not like it is a cheap stock! A HERETIC I AM Jan 2019 #4