What if you are buying a short- to intermediate-term bond fund, not the bond itself?
James Keenan, comanager of the BlackRock High Yield Bond fund, loves disarray in the markets.
The Franklin Templeton Emerging Market Debt Opportunities bond fund (FEMDX) rose 45.2% in 2009.
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And the pair, like many Americans, have reached for yield in a junk bond fund.
Sometimes (I own shares in a Fidelity junk bond fund) to corporations like yours.
You can do that well with a municipal bond fund, which is much safer.
In 2012, the average municipal bond fund had a total return yield plus price appreciation of 8%.
Bond and bond fund allocations rose 2.5 percentage points to 21.1%, a six-month high.
If you hold municipal bonds, you might hold a New York municipal bond fund.
Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund shares are currently trading down about 0.1% on the day.
This volatility is more like a leveraged stock fund rather than a bond fund.
How about putting that money in a long-term CD or bond fund for your kids?
Bond and bond fund allocations rose by 2.3 percentage points to 21.2%, a three-month high.
Bond and bond fund holdings declined 0.4 percentage points to 18.9%, a three-month low.
Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Fund shares are currently trading off about 0.4% on the day.
If so, we probably will buy something for the Asian High Income Bond Fund.
Vanguard doesn't recommend to financial-planning clients a global bond fund or exchange-traded funds that could mimic a commodities strategy.
Big news this week from behemoth bond fund group Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO).
This gives their sophisticated in-house credit-analysis teams huge advantages over the junk bond fund managers and analysts.
The average expense ratio for an actively managed bond fund is 0.75 percent, according to Morningstar.
It is because of this, I have gone long the iShares 20 Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT).
Several months ago I sat through a pitch meeting from a very, very large international bond fund.
Of course another way to hedge your stock holdings is to invest in a low-cost bond fund.
The fund's shares for individual investors charge an expense ratio of 1.3%, steep for a bond fund.
The Templeton Global Bond Fund (TPINX) invests in government and agency bonds from both developed and emerging economies.
Conceptually this is no different from putting your cash into a corporate bond fund, even an equity one.
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Actually, the ever-expanding ETF company Wisdom Tree just launched their corporate global bond fund ( GLCB) last week.
Many bond fund holders only think about the yield not the potential for capital loss in bonds funds.
Barnet Sherman is a director and the portfolio manager of the TIAA-CREF Tax-Exempt Bond Fund at TIAA-CREF.
Several months ago I was on the phone with the managers of a very, very large international bond fund.
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