Comments on: Bonds and capital protection

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:52:55 +0000

Thanks – I’ll take a look at that.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:05:39 +0000

Probably the best exhaustive resource to find out which asset-backed trusts are trading out there is http://www.quantumonline.com – the third party trust preferred securities is the applicable table.

You do have to read the prospectus for each of them, however – most of the language is boilerplate.

Exchange-traded trusts were meant to be traded by retail customers, hence the listing on the exchange.

Questtrade does support bonds, but just debt trading on the TSX.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:25:46 +0000

How does one go about discovering which bonds are traded in trusts?

I have been trying to educate myself on the basics of bonds, and the conclusion I came to was that they are only appropriate if you have a fair bit of money to purchase with.

And Questrade doesn’t seem to offer the purchase of underlying bonds anyway.

It’s funny: I would have expected bonds to be more transparent than stocks, but it seems to be the other way around.