Bond Funds
Keep up with the latest news about bond funds which can provide diversity and income to portfolios and offset equity risk.
Muni ETFs Lock Horns
By Staff WriterInvestors searching for tax-exempt income do not have just one new place to look in the ETF marketplace, but two. In September, Barclays Global Investors launched...
October 01, 2007
Morningstar Ratings Change Celebrate 5 YearsRussel Kinnel, Morningstar's director of mutual fund research and editor of Morningstar FundInvestor, says the investment-research provider made an important change five years ago that's...
October 01, 2007
Shopping the Bond MarketIt didn't seem this lunch was going to happen. Tom Ricketts, president and CEO of Incapital, was taking a morning flight from Chicago, where the private...
September 01, 2007
Diamonds Among The JunkHigh-yield bonds--those fixed income securities rated below investment grade--have some advantages over more vanilla-type bond products. High yield or "junk" bonds offer higher interest rates...
September 01, 2007
Interest Rate RefresherThe various components are: Real Interest Rate is the compensation, over and above inflation, that lenders demand to lend their money. Inflation is by...
September 01, 2007
Some More TIPSAmong those clients who may be particularly interested in this type of strategy are: Existing or prospective municipal bond owners at risk of losing...
September 01, 2007
Me? Worry About Inflation?January 1, 2006, was an important date in history: Not only did early hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash turn 48 years old, but the first of...