[edit] Bond Funds can be classified by their primary underlying assets: [2] Government: Government bonds are considered safest, since a government can always "print more money" to pay its...
mutual funds. We find evidence of active rebalancing towards government bonds that offer... Interestingly, mutual funds rebalance their portfolio towards currencies, such as the Japanese...
We show that cross-currency yield differentials in the sovereign bond market of high-rating issuers can affect the relative appeal of currencies for US mutual funds, an important class of...
Put another way: the safest option to park money requires an investor to be willing to lose up to 2% of their investment each year. Those low rates affect the yield on the products usually...
Expense Ratio : 0.23%, Div Frequency : Monthly, Div Rate (FWD) : $4.37, Yield (FWD) : 4.44%, Assets (AUM) : $1.25B, Volume : 9,008
The yield to average life is also important when bonds with sinking funds are trading below par, since repurchasing the bonds gives a bit of price stability. Example of a Sinking Bond Say...
When it comes to bond funds, knowing what information is most important can be confusing regardless of whether you are looking at a research service like Morningstar or a mutual fund...
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short-duration bond ETFs to weather the storm. For example... ultra-short-duration bond ETFs, bringing in $110 million since... duration bond ETFs that are more free to adapt holdings in a...
Sifting through the individual reported investments of individual bond funds, Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun found that almost a third of supposedly safe US bond funds are...