Emails trying to sell corporate bonds.

Has anyone else been receiving emails from large corporations trying to sell them corporate bonds in the last few weeks? This is new to me to receive emails from companies like GlaxoSmithKline, trying to sell corporate bonds. Is it spamming or are the corporations desperate to generate funds to the point they are emailing everyone?

 

That is spam. The companies does not sell their bonds directly thru emails. Probably phishing...

 

What foolish lousy spammers.

They should come up with smarter ways to cheat people.

 

As if a retailer, has few hundred millions laying around, that he has nothing better to do with, just to buy some zombie bonds in the worst performing market of 2020.

Kudos for creativity tho.

 

Ironically though, the product they are trying to sell is the product that you might want. Corporate bonds are higher in the order of payments during insolvency than most other corporate investments. So as long as the assets of the company are larger than the debt they owe you are pretty much guaranteed a payout, if the company becomes insolvent. Corporate bonds are where I would put my money at the moment because the returns on Treasury bonds are so low. You get the same level of security with a corporate bond (as long as the assets are higher than the debt) as a Treasury bond but with a higher return. With a pandemic a pharmaceutical company would be a great investment. So thanks to the spammer for telling me where to put my money. Although I would do it through a bond dealer instead of the email link they provided me with.

 

Bonds for retailer ? I doubt morgan,

it's like Buffet said :


Even +10M retailer, could build a large blocks of shares, for swings, so what's the point.

For someone like Howard Mark, yup, but for a retailer. It's only a shelter from the fear/blindspot to avoid decent returns.

 

If it is a AAA rated corporate bond then the risk rate is pretty much zero. This provides an investment opportunity like a Treasury bond, but with a higher rate of return. This is the investment I would want at the moment with all of the risk in the market the Coronavirus has caused.

 

Send them one of your treatises to foreign governments on how to make pensions the savior of all economies.

I mean, seriously. For someone who claims to have saved whole countries from economic collapse after they adopted your economic theories, yer typing pretty dumb here on how to not recognize a scam in your inbox.

 

I just wanted to make everyone else aware of it. Have you all been getting it too?

 

No, and I don't look through my spam folder often enough to notice if they have been coming in.