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High-Yield Bond Funds -- Year-End 2004 Review
By Staff WriterIs the Junk Bond Party Over?
December 28, 2004
FRC: Investors Diversify Away From United StatesNU Online News Service, Dec. 28, 2004, 2:42 p.m. ESTInternational and global mutual funds flourished in November.[@@]U.S. funds that invest assets outside the United ...
December 20, 2004
New York Distributor Brings In Hartford VeteranNU Online News Service, Dec. 20, 2004, 3:33 p.m. ESTAXA Distributors L.L.C., New York, has hired John Kennedy to be a senior vice president ...
December 20, 2004
Investors Stay Loyal to Municipal Junk Bond FundsDec. 16, 2004 -- Rising interest rates have spurred investors to abandon some bond mutual funds this year, but one group of fixed-income investments -- high-yield municipal bond funds -- has continued to attract money. Funds that buy these securities have turned in good results so far, and that should...
December 20, 2004
Fund in Focus: Payden Emerging Markets Bond FundKristin Ceva, co-manager (since inception in December 1998) S&P Rank: 3 Stars Stepping It Up A Notch
December 06, 2004
Monetta Funds Drop Sales ChargesDec. 3, 2004 -- Monetta Funds eliminated sales charges this week on its five mutual funds that carried them in an effort to increase sales. Three Monetta stock funds had carried maximum 5.75% sales charges, or front-end loads, as had its balanced fund and its bond fund. The Monetta Fund...
December 01, 2004
American Maintains Lead in Fund SalesDec. 1, 2004 -- American Funds continued to lead U.S. mutual fund complexes in sales in October, and its Growth Fund of America/A (AGTHX) again...
December 01, 2004
AIM Changes Management Team, Investment Style of Opportunities FundsNov. 30, 2004 -- AIM Investments said it has changed the portfolio management team of three of its mutual funds -- AIM Opportunities I Fund/A...