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- Bond Funds For The Long Term
- Recent economic and market turmoil has sent investors big and small seeking safe places to invest their money. The markets have been under fire since July 2007, as the crumbling of the U.S. housing market spread into the biggest liquidity crisis in nearly 80 years. Banks have been tightening lending...
- White papers 2008-10-28
- Rising Interest Rates: What Should Bond Investors Do
- This article is on rising bond interest rates. A bond fund can accomplish three basic things. It can provide income. It can stabilize the fluctuating value of a portfolio that includes equities. It can sometimes be sold for more than its purchase price. Most bond fund investors would be happy...
- White papers
- Bonds and Bond Funds
- This article provides more information about Bonds market. As boring as they may be, you can't ignore bonds in a safe-investment portfolio. When it comes to individual bonds, we like Treasury strips, which are easy to buy and sell, and offer guaranteed returns if you hold them to maturity. Strips...
- White papers
- 6 Bond Funds for Surefire Savings
- Bond investors are beating the market this year, but investors in bond mutual funds can't count on taking those profits to the bank. Bond funds have a quirk: They never mature. When a bond comes of age, you get your money back. Bond funds, on the other hand, are eternal...
- White papers
- Bond vs. Bond Funds
- This article is on bond funds. Bond funds can be even trickier than bonds themselves because -- unlike the implication in their name -- they are not really fixed-income investments. Even when a mutual fund's portfolio is composed entirely of bonds, the fund itself has neither a fixed yield nor...
- White papers
- Asset Allocation Within Fixed Income
- Outperforming average bond fund on a risk-adjusted basis is not a particularly difficult task for the savvy retail investor. Investing in bond funds is a flawed exercise--particularly in a low interest rate environment. High management fees on bond funds offset much of their active management and diversification benefits. Fixed-income fund...
- White papers 2002-11-14
- Fund Strategy 2003
- Last year was a year of hunkering down in conservative investments to weather a tough storm. Many investors have moved to short-term bond funds and money market funds this past year as evidenced by the surge in assets of those categories. With rates of 1.25 percent or lower on money...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Has The Time Passed For Municipal Bond Funds?
- The question this article tries to address is do municipal bond funds still have a place in today's portfolios? After closely examining yield and bond fund expenses, along with other factors such as diversification, it is concluded that many investors would do better with individual issues. A well-run bond fund...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Selecting a Bond Mutual Fund: Just Keep It Simple
- With all the volatility in the stock market over the past year, it seems like a good time to talk about what matters when screening bond funds. The article concludes that bond fund investors who realize the difficulty in forecasting movements in interest rates and default spreads and, therefore, don't...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Bond Funds
- "Bond fund" and "Income fund" are terms used to describe a type of investment company (mutual fund, closed-end fund, or Unit Investment Trust UIT) that invests primarily in bonds or other types of debt securities. Depending on its investment objectives and policies, a bond fund may concentrate its investments in...
- White papers 2000-10-19
- Higher Yield, Safe Returns: Best Investment Bets
- Money-market funds are now paying next to nothing. Boost your returns by moving some cash into higher-yielding but still relatively safe dividend stocks or bond funds. Here are five stocks and five funds that we like. ...
- Articles 2009-08-13
- Bonds Or Bond Funds?
- Allocating a portion of your investment portfolio to bonds can help you achieve stability and reduce risk over the long term. And for many retirees, bonds can also generate a nice source of steady income. Whatever your reason for investing in fixed income products, you face a choice: individual bonds...
- White papers 2007-09-28
- The Role Of Bond Funds In Your Portfolio
- Bonds are popular investment vehicles because they pay interest income with a promise to pay back the initial investment after an agreed-upon period of time. Bond mutual funds may be even more popular among those seeking an income component in their portfolio because they offer a lower-cost, professionally managed, diversified...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Social Bond Fund Helps Build Communities
- Bond funds are a natural fit for promoting community development. By buying CDs with community development banks and credit unions, the Domini Social Bond Fund is channeling investors' money directly to where it can be put to work in struggling urban and rural communities. The community development banks and credit...
- White papers 2003-07-24
- 5 Bond Funds With Fatter Yields
- High-yield bonds are widely known as 'Junk bonds.' But not everything that's in higher-yielding bond funds falls into that category. During the depths of last year's credit crisis, the market for high-yield bonds all but froze. Investors shunned anything with a whiff of risk, and high-yield bonds, often called junk...
- White papers 2009-09-18
- Bonds Vs. Bond Funds
- Bonds are complex - there's no doubt about it - especially if you're a novice investor with little experience in the markets. That's why a lot of people opt for the greater simplicity offered by bond funds when they seek to diversify their investments with some fixed-income exposure. If you're...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- What Are The Risks And Rewards Of Closed-End Bond Funds?
- Recent turmoil in the credit markets has brought attention to closed-end bond funds, a less well-known relative to more common open-end mutual funds. Unlike open-end funds, closed-end funds take in a certain amount of cash when they're created and then trade like stock on a major exchange. Many have been...
- White papers 2009-02-11
- How to Restore a Devastated Nest Egg
- Dan and Barbara Hoffa felt a lot wealthier in 2007 than they do today. The market's plunge vaporized half of the Hoffas' portfolio, reducing their total liquid assets to about $900,000, a little more than half of which is arrayed in 401ks and a Roth IRA. ...
- Articles 2009-09-15
Additional Resources
- Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features BE Aerospace, Delta Air Lines, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund, and NETGEAR
- CINCINNATI -- Among the stocks featured in the July 28 edition of Schaeffer's Market Blog are BE Aerospace (NASDAQ:BEAV), Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (NASDAQ:ANSI), iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (AMEX:TLT), and NETGEAR (NASDAQ:NTGR). Schaeffer's Market Blog is just one of the many free market commentaries...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity Bond Fund, Inc. Declares a Distribution
- NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MGB) declared today a year-end dividend of $0.1652 per share of net investment income.[TABLE OMITTED] Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity Bond Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), advised by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc., is a closed-end management investment company...
- Research articles 2006-12-15
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