Mutual fund sales of bond funds actually peaked almost a year ago, although sales do remain high.
Keep in mind that the expenses of a large-cap, domestic stock fund will be lower than those of an international bond fund, so compare funds only among their category peers.
It has been commonplace to hear, after years of mutual fund outflows from equities into bond funds, that money has begun to flow in the opposite direction.
The fund ranked among the bottom 13% of comparable bond funds for the year.
At the same time, uncertainty about the economy kept stock and stock fund allocations from rising significantly at the expenses of bonds and bond funds.
Yes, bond fund investors exacerbated the problem by piling in and out of muni funds at the same time.
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The latest week marks the 20th consecutive week of fund inflows reported by ICI, as money has rushed into bond and hybrid funds.
The launch of the Pimco Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund will test the mettle of investors with trillions of dollars invested in traditional bond mutual funds.
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During the first eight months of this year American Century's Target 2025 Fund returned a scorching 28%, making it one of the best-performing bond funds available to individual investors.
One way I trim the fees charged by fund companies on my retirement accounts is to invest in a handful of stock and bond index funds, which carry expense ratios ranging from .05 percent to .16 percent.
Also, Deutsche Bank estimates that global bond funds are sitting on 9% cash, so fund managers still have a lot of money on the sidelines to put to work.
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If you own municipal bond funds that out-yield the competition, then chances are the fund is chock full of tobacco bonds.
Bond mutual funds appear to be the biggest benefactor of the inflows accounting for 68% of the fund inflows thus far in 2010.
The attorneys said Zimmerman did disclose the existence of the funds five days after the bond hearing, during his first conversation with the defense about the fund.
The week ending February 27 saw EPFR global-tracked bond funds outpace equity fund flows by the biggest margin in 14 weeks as retail investors pulled money out of the latter for the first time this year.
Altfest is advising his clients to keep maturities short, buy mortgage-backed securities yielding 6% to 8% and move into international funds such as the Templeton Global Bond Fund, which has a five-year average annual return of 10.9%, net of fees, and a duration of 3.3 years.
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