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- Best Buys on Bonds
- Despite the nascent stock-market rally, the once-stodgy bond market remains the hot new thing for wary investors. Corporate and municipal bonds offer some temptingly high yields. Treasuries promise a safe haven. But the market is riddled with risks. Learn how to avoid them... Although stocks have bounced back in recent...
- Articles 2009-03-17
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- It's open season on closed-end bond funds, but.
- Experts leery despite IPO rise, good returns A bull market exists in a most unlikely place -- closed-end funds, especially bond funds. According to Lipper Inc. in New York, 27 funds have been launched so far...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
- MONEY MARKET FUNDS MAKE GAINS: LONGER-TERM BOND FUNDS, GROWTH FUNDS ALSO SAW INFLOWS IN AUGUST.(Statistical Data Included)
- SUMMIT, N.J. -- Net mutual fund flows were about $25 billion in August, with more than 80% going into money market funds, according to Lipper Inc., a data analysis company. Longer-term bond funds experienced net outflows in nearly all investment SUMMIT,...
- Research articles 1999-10-04
- Dreyfus, with bond funds surging, also eyes equities.
- Gerald Thunelius has spent 12 years heading taxable bond funds at Dreyfus Corp. of New York and has never once been asked to pitch his company's wares -- until now. He's in the middle of a three-month blitz of 25 cities, talking up his bond funds t...
- Research articles 2001-05-14
- Funds, bond funds: Regardless of cost, they're shaken.
- Funds, bond funds: Regardless of cost, they're shaken MINI SINGLE STATE ...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- 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
- Top 25 taxable bond funds ranked by assets.
- Top 25 taxable bond funds ranked by assets ...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- 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
- S&P warns of bond ETF risk. (Not for the Squeamish).(Standard and Poor's Corp. warning about exchange-traded bond funds)(Brief Article)
- EXCHANGE-TRADED bond funds are still relatively new to U.S. markets, but Standard & Poors worries that your clients may confuse novelty for quality or, worse, forget that not all ETFs are created equal. EXCHANGE-TRADED bond funds are still relatively new to U.S. ...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- Taxable bond funds.
- FOR A DESCRIPTION of each column heading, see page 72. Some other information about the taxable bond fund rankings: CATEGORY. Investment-grade corporate bond funds are classified as ST Corp (short-term), Int Corp (intermediate-term) or LT Corp (long-term). Government bond funds are ST...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- 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 total assests.
- Top 25 tax-exempt bond funds ranked by total assests ...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- 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
- New Horizons: Introducing Exchange-Traded Bond Funds
- From the time the bull market in equities ended in March 2000 to September 2002, the Lehman Brothers aggregate bond index climbed 29% while the Wilshire 5000 equity index tumbled 44% (returns cover the period 3/31/00 to 9/30/02). This article explains the treasury notes and bonds fared well because low...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Junk bond funds seen at a crossroads.(Short Interests)
- Byline: David Hoffman Junk bond funds, which saw outflows in June, had inflows of $400 million last month, according to a report last week from Lipper Inc. of New York. "I was surprised to see even...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Tarnished halo: fixed income under fire.(FundReporter)(IRS investigation tax-exempt status of some bond funds)(Brief Article)
- THERE'S SOMETHING about market timing that evokes the fast-paced world of equities, but even relatively mellow bond funds are feeling the heat from an unlikely source. THERE'S SOMETHING about market timing that evokes the fast-paced world of equities, but even relatively mellow bond...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
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