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Registered Rep. July 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	A Tough, but Smart Sell Plenty of clients detest bond mutual funds, but a bond fund can be less volatile than a small portfolio of individual bonds. The typical fund is broadly diversified and includes hundreds of names.
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Registered Rep. October 4, 2013 Stan Luxenberg	Getting Yield in Short Duration Bonds Should you shift all your bond allocation to shorter issues? Probably not. Over long periods, intermediate bonds have outdone short-term issues by wide margins.
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Tara Kalwarski	How to Fix Your Bond Mix Here's how three funds allocate bonds for people retiring in 2010
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Young & Gutner	Why You Belong In Bonds Even when rates rise, bond funds provide a market cushion. We've done the math to find the best ones for right now.
Financial Planning January 1, 2005	Mutual Fund Monitor Should you invest in bond funds or individual bonds?
Financial Advisor April 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Strategic Income Funds Can Limit Volatility The traditional safe harbor of fixed income in times of extreme market volatility doesn't mean your clients have to settle for today's low yields on Treasurys. Strategic income funds, often overlooked, offer diversity, reduced risk and the potential for higher returns.
Registered Rep. June 20, 2014 Stan Luxenberg	Fighting the Bond Bears Forecasters suggest trimming intermediate funds and shifting assets to short-term bonds and cash. But not everyone is swayed by the bond bears.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2011 Stan Luxenberg	Outperforming Muni Bond Funds Can Be Conservative or Aggressive. But You Better Know Your Fund Not all municipal bond fund managers are content to stay in the middle of the field. A few stars have topped the averages by following unusual strategies.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Can These Investments Keep Flying High? As long as you understand the risks involved, owning corporate bonds either directly or through a bond exchange-traded fund or mutual fund can give you higher yields on your money.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005	A Fixed-Income Fund with a Twist Bill Eigen of Fidelity Strategic Income says a broadly diversified focus and careful risk management help his fund outperform
The Motley Fool October 10, 2008 Dan Caplinger	The Hidden Danger Inside Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again. The recent flight to safety in the fixed-income markets reveals the distinctions among different types of bonds.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 Steve Watkins	Junk Is Not Bunk When the Federal Reserve signals an imminent rate rise, the news is traditionally greeted like a general alarm in the high-yield bond markets: "Get out while you can! Run for your lives!"
Investment Advisor May 2007 Palash R. Ghosh	Safe, but Sound Intermediate-term bonds are not very exciting, but they do deliver steady gains. One of the top fund performers in this sector is the $1.06 billion Federated Bond Fund.
Financial Advisor May 2008 Marla Brill	Munis' Turn To Shine One of the country's most influential fixed-income managers is enthusiastic about a municipal bond market that she says is more exciting than any she has seen in her 23-year career.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Stan Luxenberg	Are Bond Funds Still Attractive? Advisors who are kicking the tires of bond funds these days might be entering the market too late.
Registered Rep. February 13, 2012 Stan Luxenberg	Searching for Yield Yield-starved investors have good reason to be increasingly frustrated. Money-market funds yield next to nothing, and 5-year Treasuries yield less than 1 percent. TIPS sport negative yields.
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Anne Tergesen	Higher Rates: A Survival Kit Rising rates are usually the bane of bondholders, but not if you own certain investments. Plenty of options exist for maximizing yields in this climate.
Financial Advisor June 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	No Longer A Wallflower For your clients' fixed-income portfolios, now may be a desirable time to be thinking of investing in simple, plain vanilla investments.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg	Ticking Tax Bomb Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) surprises could become increasingly common for shareholders of municipal bond funds. Advisors must now decide whether to buy funds with private bonds.
Financial Advisor October 2005 Marla Brill	Why Bonds Keep Beating The Odds Financial advisors who have been taking defensive measures in anticipation of rising long-term rates and falling bond prices may have to wait awhile longer for their strategies to shine.
Financial Advisor January 2009 Marla Brill	Working The Bond Market Fund manager Andrew Stenwall says high-yield bonds are likely to outperform.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2005 Mathew Emmert	Think Dividend Stocks, Not Bonds Bonds aren't compelling investments in today's market. This dividend fan tells you why.
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Ilana Polyak	Trash or Treasure? Some investors might steer clear of anything to do with mortgages, but not Metropolitan West Total Return bond fund. The three managers of the $11 billion fund find conditions for mortgages optimal.
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Janet Aschkenasy	Staggering Choices Many financial advisory clients are using bond ladders to climb beyond interest-rate risk and inflation risk--but not all ladders are created equal.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2007 Dan Caplinger	2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Paying for Quality With bonds, sometimes it pays to get the best. Investors and mutual funds that are buying lower-quality bonds may find that they would've been better off sticking with Treasuries in the long run.
Financial Advisor October 2009 Eric Rasmussen	The Ripe Fruit Mellows Corporate bonds offered great opportunity earlier in the year, but now that yields have fallen, investors are rethinking strategy.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Betting on January's Big Winners For investors who dared to venture outside the stock box, January brought some good news. Within long-neglected asset classes, such as the corporate bond market, investors who beat the crowd reaped some healthy rewards.
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Fund Manager Profile: They're Not Junk Michael Weilheimer, the manager of the high-yield, $2 billion Eaton Vance Income Fund of Boston, makes the case for high-yield bonds.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg	Over There Foreign bond funds will help grab yield, diversify client portfolios and, in some cases, hedge against a falling dollar.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2010 Amanda B. Kish	Are Bonds in a Bubble? Millions of Americans depend on the income from their bonds and bond funds to fund their golden years, so there could be lasting implications for scores of already battered investors if that bubble comes to pass.
Financial Planning December 1, 2005 Ilana Polyak	Have Bonds, Will Travel To juice up yields at his Loomis Sayles Bond Fund, Dan Fuss tracks down American-issued debt all over the world.
Financial Advisor February 2, 2009 Bruce W. Fraser	A Glimmer Of Rewards Prices on high-quality corporate bond issues represent a buying opportunity for advisors.
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn	Buoyant Bonds The world seems to be awash in debt, especially government debt. Considering that government issues are crucial to the world's bond markets, fixed-income investments have held up surprisingly well.
AskMen.com Michael Estrin	Investing In Bonds Having some bonds in your portfolio is not only a good way to make money, it's also a great way to diversify. Here's what you need to know before you invest in the bond market.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Dakin Campbell	The Bond Buyer Market fallout hits muni bond mutual funds.
Registered Rep. March 17, 2010 Stan Luxenberg	Bond Funds Facing Bleak Prospects? Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been carefully signaling that the Fed stands ready to raise interest rates this year if the economy continues to mend. For bond funds that could be bad news.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 Mathew Emmert	Broken Bonds Even if you've just experienced a painful breakup with the stock market, don't go falling in love with bonds just because you're on the rebound. The plain truth is that looking for love in today's bond market could lead to another broken heart.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 Stan Luxenberg	Calming the Terrified Client For most clients, however, there are options more lucrative than principal-protection funds that provide a respectable return without assuming the risk of straight equity funds. Consider, for example, closed-end municipal bond funds.
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	5 Questions Stan and Hildy Richelson, authors of Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth, answer five questions about the recent volatility in the fixed income market.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Angelina Dance	S&p Mutual Fund Sector Focus: The Global Itch? With the Federal Reserve continuing to raise short-term interest rates, while longer-term rates inexplicably remain low, some fixed-income investors are seeking alternative vehicles, including global bond funds.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Mike Ruff	From Safe to Stagnant If there's one thing to be learned from "all weather" investment strategies such as muni laddering, it's this: there is such a thing as too conservative. Therefore, advisors should make it clear to their clients that the safety offered comes at a steep price.
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The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Dan Caplinger	Save Yourself From the Bond Bear The possibility of losses in bonds has some people running scared, but you should stay smart.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Eric Rasmussen	After the Storm The fixed-income market's fortunes this year have played out against the drama of the subprime mortgage meltdown, when investment banks and investors realized that a lot of bad debt was sloshing through the market.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Liz Peek	Muni Manager Advises: Stay Rich With a worsening tax outlook, even stock jocks should pay attention to municipal bonds.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2010 Robert Brokamp	Will Rising Rates Sink Your Portfolio? And should you be worried? How will this affect the portfolios of people who invest in rate-sensitive securities -- namely, bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds?
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Dan Caplinger	The Death of Bonds? You shouldn't give up on bonds entirely, but neither should you rely on them to support you without help from other investments.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Kathleen M. McBride	Relief Pitcher How do you spell relief from the alternative minimum tax? Try the Fidelity Tax-Free Bond Fund, a fund that provides strong returns largely free of the AMT heartburn.