Global Markets Best Performers Review (13 Dec - 17 Dec 2010)

WMR:

---Fixed Income yields on 10 year Gov. Bonds--- Week's biggest increase: Ireland: +3.4%
Month's (so far) biggest increase: Ireland +10.7% Year's (so far) biggest increase: Greece +104.6%

These are actually the worst-performing gov't bonds. Fixed income investors are looking for the highest percentage increase in price or decline in yield. Tightening corporate spreads and price appreciation of UST securities is why we saw record inflows into bond funds until the UST market began its recent rapid sell-off.

On the Govs, the mention is already "biggest increase" rather than best of to illustrate the point you were trying to make. You need to think along the lines of swaps and not spreads. As far as what f. income investors are aiming for, I suggest you gain a little more experience in dealing with such people before expressing opinions based on newspaper articles (I've heard too many of those, these past 30 work-years). Finally, the "record inflows" itself is just inaccurate and typical hype. I will mention the dates for your reference: Mar 8-17 of this year and again Sep 13-15 of this year. Hope this clarifies.

This is great. Thanks. Wish I had SBs to give away.