Asymmetric information is something you must avoid falling prey to as an investor. There are laws protecting individual investors, but there are still ways to get caught on the wrong side of a transaction.
Perhaps the greatest of all the financial myths out there is that investing in U.S. Treasuries is a risk-free endeavor… The truth is that a U.S. Treasury security with a 10-year maturity is anything but risk-free.
An investor who consistently beats the market needs others to be consistently on the wrong side of the trade. Don’t persist with a strategy that makes you the one who’s making money for someone else, Distressed Investing editor Marty Fridson writes.
In this special edition of the Daily Journal, Martin Fridson, Wall Street’s Dean of High Yield, shows how companies looking to raise capital tend to issue new bonds into an environment that benefits them, and not investors. Marty uses his decades in the sector to provide insights into how you can get in on the right side of the bond market.