Bond Funds
Keep up with the latest news about bond funds which can provide diversity and income to portfolios and offset equity risk.
Heartland Exits Bond Business
By Staff WriterAug. 16, 2002 -- Heartland Advisors Inc., which saw two of its municipal bond funds put into receivership last year following steep portfolio write-downs, is...
July 25, 2002
Investors Abandon Stock FundsJuly 25, 2002 -- After being battered by the turbulent stock market, mutual fund investors decided to take their ball and go home last month. Shareholders...
July 10, 2002
Municipal Bond Funds Hold UpJuly 9, 2002 -- High-quality municipal bond funds are looking attractive these days. As the average U.S. stock fund registered more losses so far this year,...
July 03, 2002
Horace Mann To Report $26 Million In Bond LossesNU Online News Service, July 3, 11:10 a.m. -- Horace Mann Educators Corp., Springfield, Corp., estimates it will report about $26 million in investment ...
July 02, 2002
Oppenheimer Changes Muni Bond Fund ManagersJuly 1, 2002 -- OppenheimerFunds said its Rochester municipal bond division has taken over managing five national and single-state municipal bond funds. The division is running...
June 28, 2002
More Companies Report WorldCom ExposureNU Online News Service, June 28, 4:56 p.m. -- U.S. life insurers have announced their exposure to bonds issued by WorldCom Inc., Clinton, Miss.The ...
June 27, 2002
May Fund Inflows DropJune 25, 2002 -- Investors slowed their purchases of mutual funds last month. Stock and bond funds took in $15.25 billion in May, compared to $21.25...