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Why Junk Bonds Are Getting Junked Leveraged loans offer better terms, but their floating rates could spell trouble.   |
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June 2011
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Exotic Alternative Advisors should scrutinize the risk-return trade off of including floating-rate loans in client portfolios. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2008
David A. Twibell |
Floating Above the Rest Where can advisors find decent yields for clients without getting their heads handed to them if, as many expect, the Federal Reserve ratchets up interest rates next year? One option may be floating-rate loans. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
September 12, 2013
Stan Luxenberg |
Against All Odds Rising interest rates have many bond fund investors running scared. But these funds tend to thrive when rates rise. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Marla Brill |
Bank Loan Funds Regain The Spotlight Funds that invest in variable rate loans to below-investment-grade companies may sound like a gamble, but it's one that an increasing number of financial advisors worried about the impact of rising interest rates are willing to take. |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2013
Jeff Tjornehoj |
Investors Turn to Loan Participation Funds Investors yearning for income and fearing rising interest rates are clamoring for loan participation mutual funds and ETFs. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
Ilana Polyak |
Banking on Higher Rates With the Fed funds rate closing in on its third birthday pegged at the rock-bottom low of zero to 0.25%, it's not hard to figure out which way rates are headed. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Prime Time For Prime-Rate Funds These funds can help protect you against the risk of higher interest rates. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Tara Kalwarski |
How to Fix Your Bond Mix Here's how three funds allocate bonds for people retiring in 2010 |
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.
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Will Your Bond Fund Blow Up? Consider the risks. |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Dakin Campbell |
The Bond Buyer Market fallout hits muni bond mutual funds. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Suzanne Woolley |
Follow The Raging Oil Bulls Energy funds may head higher. But most stock and bond funds look earthbound. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
The New Stocks Where can financial planners seek those historic equity market returns without the painful setbacks? One place to start is in the bond market. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2009
Mike Pienciak |
More Pain Ahead for Banks and Insurers Leveraged loans and low-grade bonds pose the next balance sheet risk. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
The Discount Mystery When exchange-traded funds appeared in the 1990s, some observers predicted that the new vehicles would doom their older cousins, closed-end funds. But lately those boring old closed-end funds have been attracting renewed attention. |
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. |
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
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. |
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, 2008
Ilana Polyak |
Crazy for Junk With today's credit woes, who could blame you if you wanted nothing to do with junk bonds right now? |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Float Your Bond Boat If the prospect of higher interest rates has left you on the fixed-income sidelines, consider floating-rate bonds as an alternative to traditional bonds. Although they aren't for everyone, they can help you get the bond exposure your portfolio needs. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013
Laton McCartney |
Money Flowing Into Bonds Fixed-income gained more ground, while the 14 best-performing equity mutual funds all focused on precious metals and enjoyed gains of more than 20%. |
BusinessWeek
January 29, 2007
Jane Sasseen |
Junk Keeps Defying Gravity If history is any guide, low-rate bonds and loans should be tanking. Here's why they're not. |
Financial Advisor
July 2004
Alan Lavine |
Potential Shields From Rising Rates Loan funds may be a low-risk option for investors. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
Ian Katz |
Closed-Ends: The Window Is Closing Their heavy reliance on bonds makes them risky when rates are rising. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Aaron Pressman |
Discount Days For Closed-End Funds A glut of new funds worsened year-end slides. But that means you might find a deal |
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
March 7, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Auction-Rate Anxiety The credit crisis hits leveraged mutual fund shareholders. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Stacy Schultz |
Record-Breaker The second quarter of 2009 was a record-breaker for mutual funds. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2013
Matthew Lemieux |
Getting Ready for Rising Rates Unfettered interest in fixed income has persisted, despite the reality that interest rates will rise. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Investments for Volatile Markets How balanced funds can fit in your portfolio. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Maheshwari & Childs |
Easy Money Is Bringing Buyouts Back to Life Investors willing to go out on a limb for higher yields are helping heavily indebted companies refinance their loans and bonds. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
Forecasting for Dollars For many investors, the typical bond-fund manager's cautious approach is fine. But some clients may prefer one of the few funds that still aims to stand far out from the pack. These active managers use a variety of tools. |
Financial Advisor
October 2012
Michelle Knight |
A Great Reallocation? The long predicted shift from bonds to equities could finally happen. |
Financial Advisor
October 2011
Michelle Knight |
Not Your Grandma's Bond Portfolio A dynamic approach to managing fixed-income assets may boost returns and manage interest-rate and inflation risks. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2012
Diana Britton |
Alternatives Going Mainstream According to data released by Cerulli Associates and Strategic Insight/SIMFUND, alternative mutual funds account for 2.8 percent of overall mutual fund assets today. But Cerulli projects they will account for 9.7 percent of all mutual fund assets in five years. |
Registered Rep.
June 28, 2010
Stan Luxenberg |
Investors More Sophisticated, but Still Buying and Selling at Wrong Times In recent years, shareholders have become smarter fund shoppers, said speakers at the Morningstar Investment Conference, which was held in Chicago last week. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Big-Time Risk on Short-Term Money Short-term bond funds have been billed as an attractive substitute for money-market mutual funds. But as some investors are discovering, these funds aren't risk-free. Yields fluctuate, and you risk losing some principal. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
6 Bond ETFs to Avoid Steer clear of these precarious picks. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2009
Ben Levisohn |
End of the Bond Boom? Bond sales blossomed during the credit crisis, but it may be time for investors to reconsider their passion. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Lewis Braham |
What's Inside Pimco? Pimco Total Return Fund is the world's biggest mutual fund. What's in its portfolio? |
