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- 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
- Top 25 tax-exempt bond funds ranked by performance.
- Top 25 tax-exempt bond funds ranked by performance Fund name Fund family ...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- 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
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- M&T Securities Inc. of Baltimore acquires two municipal bond funds
- M&T Securities Inc., of Baltimore, a broker-dealer subsidiary of M&T Bank, announced it has acquired two municipal bond funds from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. The addition of the FBR Maryland Tax-Free Portfolio now called the MTB Maryland Municipal Bond Fund and the FBR Virginia Tax-Free Portfolio (now the MTB...
- Research articles 2006-02-28
- Barclays Global Investors Announces the Trading of the First State Municipal Bond Exchange Traded Funds
- Barclays Global Investors BGI announced that the iShares S&P California Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: CMF) and the iShares S&P New York Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: NYF) will begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange. They are the first state municipal bond ETFs available to U.S. investors and they...
- Research articles 2007-10-05
- PIMCO Funds Is Profiting from Investor Skittishness
- Trader Mark submits:Talk this week has been that the retail investor has finally returned to the market in the past few days; further, a Wall Street Journal article touted the explosion of volume in retail brokerage companies (Ameritrade, Etrade, et al) due to daytrading / speculation in the Citigroups...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Barclays Global Investors Announces the Trading of the First U.S. Listed Municipal Bond Exchange Traded Fund
- Barclays Global Investors BGI announced that the iShares S&P National Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: MUB) will begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange. It is the first municipal bond ETF available to U.S. investors. The Fund is designed to track a liquid, institutional quality municipal bond index...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- Eldredge to Head Municipal Bond Area at Voyageur
- MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--March 19, 1996--Voyageur Fund Managers Inc. announced today that Steven P. Eldredge will head the municipal bond portfolio management area of the Voyageur Companies.Eldredge assumes responsibility for all of the municipal bond management activities for the Voyageur family of 30 tax free municipal bond mutual funds and for Voyageur's...
- Research articles 1996-03-19
- Fitch Affirms Putnam Muni Bond Fund Preferred Shares Ratings
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings affirms the ratings on the following Putnam Municipal Bond Fund auction rate municipal preferred shares AMPS as follows: --Auction rate municipal preferred shares 2,920 series A, 'AAA'; --Auction rate municipal preferred shares 2,400 series B, 'AAA'. The affirmation is based on the...
- Research articles 2004-12-20
- Fidelity Investments Launches Spartan Tax-Free Bond Fund; Fidelity Introduces New Fund Investing in Bonds Whose Interest is Exempt From Federal Income and Alternative Minimum Taxes
- Business Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--April 18, 2001 Fidelity InvestmentsR today introduced Spartan Tax-Free Bond Fund to meet increasing investor demand for a federal tax-free bond fund. The fund will normally invest in municipal securities whose interest is exempt from federal income taxes, and will normally limit investment in municipal...
- Research articles 2001-04-18
- Fitch Rates Maine Municipal Bond Bank $52.2MM Revs 'AAA'
- CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AAA' rating to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank's bond bank $52.2 million 2008 series A and B bonds. The bonds are expected to sell during the week of April 14 via negotiation. In addition, Fitch affirms the ratings on approximately $933 million of the...
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- Municipal Bond Fund ?Swan Dive?
- Investors have traditionally bought municipal bond funds for income purposes. The tax-exempt status provides real appeal and the default rate on municipals has always been exceptionally low. Against that backdrop, ‘munis’ have always proven to be less volatile than equities and many other sectors of the bond market ....
- External links 2009-10-14
- Fitch Ratings Affirms Florida Municipal Investment Trust
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has performed the annual credit analysis of the Florida Municipal Investment Trust ('Florida'). The Florida Enhanced Cash Portfolio, Florida 1-3 Year High Quality Bond Fund, Florida Intermediate High Quality Bond Fund, and Florida Broad Market High Quality Bond Fund ratings have been affirmed at 'AAA/V1',...
- Research articles 2005-05-04
- 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
- Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. -DSM- Releases Fund Statistics
- NEW YORK -- The following information for Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DSM) is as of September 30, 2004, and is subject to change at any time. All percentages are based on total net assets.
- Research articles 2004-11-29
- Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. Releases Fund Statistics
- NEW YORK -- The following information for Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DSM) is as of December 31, 2007 except as otherwise noted, and is subject to change at any time. All percentages are based on total net assets except as otherwise noted.
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. Releases Fund Statistics
- NEW YORK -- The following information for Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DSM) is as of March 31, 2007 except as otherwise noted, and is subject to change at any time. All percentages are based on total net assets except as otherwise noted.
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- Lawsuit Concerning Municipal Bond Fund Is Settled in Milwaukee, Wis., Court.
- By Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 4--Heartland Advisors Inc. and related parties have settled one of the four lawsuits in Milwaukee County Circuit court seeking the return of money lost in the firm's ill-fated municipal bond fund....
- Research articles 2003-01-04
- Nuveen Insured Municipal Bond Closed-End and Open-End Funds Adopt Investment Policy Changes
- CHICAGO -- Nuveen Investments, a leading provider of diversified investment services, today announced the Board of Trustees for Nuveen funds has approved changes in investment policies for all insured municipal bond closed-end and open-end funds. In some cases, these changes are subject to shareholder notice or approval. These changes are...
- Research articles 2008-03-18
- J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc., Putnam Investments To Provide Municipal Bond Yields to TheConsensus.com Daily Benchmark
- Business Editors, Financial Writers BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 24, 2000 J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. and Putnam Investments are the latest firms to agree to contribute municipal bond yield data to TheConsensus.com, an Internet-based advisory service that has established a new industry-wide benchmark for municipal securities....
- Research articles 2000-02-24
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