What are the best fixed income investments? What are their yields?
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Well, I'm not a big fan of fixed-income investments, because they typically have no growth opportunity.  Given that outlook, my favorite fixed income investments are convertible bonds and convertible preferred stock, because these carry an opportunity for something over and above just the income.  Of course, you will pay extra for that component, but I still think they are typically more valuable.\n\nThe only other fixed-income investment I would consider in the current interest-rate outlook is the I-bonds, which are inflation-adjusted.\n\nYields shift constantly.  Check with the treasury for I-bond yields.  Convertible yields are quoted on finance sites.
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There is not enough information to answer your question.\n\nI suggest you to ask:\nWhat is the best small project for (Amount of money you want to invest)?
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You can buy them through many investment firms: Schwab, Vanguard, eTrade, etc.  There are many bonds that their rates/mature-period vary somewhat.  Some are also tax-free, others are not.\n\nYou could go to vanguard.com to do some (free) research.  Or you could visit Schwab office, and someone would be happy to go over that with you.
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http://www.magicformulainvesting.com\n\nIt's a great book! Make sure you buy the book and read it or buy the audio book and listen. The wisdom of how the value investing method works is great info.
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There is not enough information to answer your question.\n\nHow much is a large lump sum?\nWhat is a good investment?\n\nThe highest return is always the highest risk \nThe minimal risk is always the lowest return (Goverment Bonds get you 4% a year with minimum risk)\n\nYou can start by opening a brokerage account at ameritrade.com\n\nDrop me a line if you need detailed information about investments in the stock market.
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If you want a guaranteed return then you should consider only T-bills. 6 mo bills currently yield 5%.  That is about as good as you can get on a guaranteed return. Other investments are subject to risk.  And the risk can be great. You could loose your entire investment is one particular company.
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Buy.\nIt an investment!
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Fidelity Investments homepage\nhttp://www.fidelity.com/
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If you want a safe fund with high returns, try T Rowe Price's REIT Real estate fund TRREX. That's where I would go if I had some extra cash. Or a good solid Value fund like Vanguard Windsor II VWNFX.
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I use the Motley Fool, and subscribe to their Hidden Gems service.  Check them out at fool.com.\n\nGood Luck
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I don't know of any but...you may try to visit a business school which teaches fixed income and they may have spreadsheet models that calculate and value various fixed income securities.  I graduated in Finance and I took a fixed income class that valued bonds, MBSs, swaps, bond options, bonds with call options, etc. If you want a simulator for bonds, there is a spread sheet model that calculates bond prices by bootstrapping.  What that does is calculates bond prices compared to a benchmark bond and evaluates if the bond is currently over or underpriced.
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You can either buy short term securities like Cetes if all you want is FX exposure; you can buy longer term bonds (called M's) if you also want exposure to local interest rates.\nThere also dollar denominated securites that trade in and offshore Mexico, called UMS bonds.\n\nThere are a lot of Mexicanfixed income mutual funds in which you can invest, according to what you are looking for.\n\nDepending on the ammt you want to invest, you should contact either a Mutual Fund Distributor (Distribuidora de Sociedades de inversion) or Fund Manager (Operadora de Sociedades de Inversion) or a Broker Dealer (Casa de Bolsa) or Bank's Private Equity Area.\nWrite me w/your email address and I'll go the names and ph numbers of a couple of institutions if you want.
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There are some solid energy stocks up there. Take a look at NXY, ECA, or some of the Canadian energy trusts such as Canadian Oil Sands Trust. The trusts offer some steady returns from a predictable and valuable asset base (oil and gas reserves). Plus you get more bang for oyur buck if you figure the Canadian dollar will rise versus the US dollar over time.
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Any Asian country is great to invest in looking at it on a long term basis. It always depends on how tallented your foreign partner (local party from that country) is. Most of the time foreign investors are eyewashed and decieved. Its mostly about luck. \n\nI would suggest you look at investing in developing markets like Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Investments with a higher percentage of fixed assets that is.
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Kinda' depends on what you're investing in, but basically, I would look at rate of return over at least a 10 year period (absolute minimum 5 years).  Longer track records are better.  Ten percent or more is good.  Don't forget to factor in taxes, risk, and inflation.  For example, taxes will eat about 2.5% of your 12%.  Inflation will eat about 4% of your 12%.  And risk is dependent on the type and volatility of the investment.
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check out the Powershares ETFs PHO (water resources) and PBW (alternative energy). Or Guinness Atkinson alternative energy mutual fund GAAEX.
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Only a very few people know the best form of investment, and regrettably I am not one of them. \n\nThere are however good forms and bad forms, and I do know something about them.\n\nLet's discuss bad forms first. That is a little easier. Speculative stocks. They are very bad forms. There has been a lot of money made on speculative stocks, but not by the average investor. The loss to gain ratio is about 50 to 1. So the odds are against you big time. \n\nOver priced stocks. Look what happened to all those investors that bought Microsoft at 60 a share, Intel at 80 a share, and so on. \n\nNow what about good investmets.\n\nThose are sound companies selling at a reasonable price with good prospects of earnings growth. \n\nSome examples: major companies in China. That economy is growing 3 times as fast as the U S economy. If you have no idea of what Chinese stock to invest in, pick a mutual fund that invests in Chinese stocks. \n\nPetroleum companies. Demand for petroleum will continue strong and supply is not keeping up.\n\nBlue chips that are out of favor. HD, MSFT, INTC, CSCO, C, BAC. WMT???