Bond Funds
Keep up with the latest news about bond funds which can provide diversity and income to portfolios and offset equity risk.
Bill Gross’ Year a ‘Stinker,’ as He Lags 92% of Peers
By John SullivanCiting Lipper data, PIMCOs Bill Gross, manager of the worlds largest bond fund, lost money through November while bond indexes gained about the same amount, says the Financial Times.
November 23, 2011
Bond Investors Seek More TransparencyMany U.S. retail bond investors would like more information about how individual bonds are priced and the way that theyre sold, according to a recent report released by Charles Schwab. The study found that 73 percent of bond investors surveyed want pricing details, 44 percent cant figure out how...
November 23, 2011
Bond Vigilantes Claim New Victim as German Bund Sale Fails: News AnalysisIn an ominous sign of the malignancy of Europes financial contagion, Germany held a bond auction Wednesday to which few buyers showed up.
November 14, 2011
EFSF Denies Reports of Own Bond PurchasesAfter a report by Britain's Sunday Telegraph that the European Financial Stability Facility had to resort to buying its own bonds when investors shunned them, the EFSF denied the report.
November 10, 2011
J.P. Morgan Proposes New Model for 401(k) Plans (Reuters)The average 401(k) plan has more than 18 investment options -- but that might not be true for long. J.P. Morgan has proposed a new, simplified plan that asks participants to choose between three different investment "buckets."
November 10, 2011
Europe in Disarray as Contagion SpreadsAs both Italy and Greece fumbled with successor governments, worries over officials failure to find a solution to the debt crisis spread contagion to Italy, where bond yields broke records.
November 03, 2011
Putnam Bets on Capital Preservation in ‘Floating-NAV World’Investors have taken a trillion dollars in assets out of money market funds since the Lehman crisis in 2008 and now Putnam Investments is looking to create a new home for these discouraged investors seeking safety but balking at low yields.
October 27, 2011
Ireland Sees Opportunity in Greek SolutionThe deal brokered by the euro zone nations to save Greece from default has opened a window of opportunity for Ireland in which Dublin may seek relief for its own wounded economy.