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June 01, 2009 at 04:00 AM
The Lipper HI Current Yield Bond Index has risen 17.1 percent, and the Lipper A-Rated Bond Fund Index is up 2.4 percent through early May 2009.
The Lipper High-Yield Municipal Debt Index gained 12.6 percent in the year through May 7, and the Lipper General Municipal Debt index rose 9.4 percent. According to Lipper, Pennsylvania munis have gained 10.2 percent, and other large states between 7.4 percent and 9.8 percent.
In terms of flows in to fixed income, excluding money markets (which had outflows of $1.57 billion in the first week of May), fixed-income funds took in some $2.7 billion in early May, EPFR Global says. And U.S. bond funds have absorbed fresh money every week this year. According to flows tracked by Lipper, bond funds attracted net inflows — to the tune of $21.8 billion — in March, for the third month in a row.
During the first week of May, EPFR Global-tracked emerging-markets bond funds had their fourth-straight week of inflows, as did global bond funds – which had their longest winning streak since a 15-week run that ended early in the third quarter of 2007.
