Bond Fund Blues: Bond Funds that goosed their performance by buying...

Financial Planning;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Not all bond funds are created equal because not all bond fund managers are created...2007. How does a bond fund lose more than...tail wind for some bond funds in 2004, 2005 and...to remember the bond fund experience of 2007...and for all-that bond ...

Bond Fund Blues; Bond Funds That Goosed Their Performance By Buying...

Financial Planning;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Israelsen Not all bond funds are createdequal because not all bond fund managers are created...2007. How does a bond fund lose more than 50...tail wind for some bond funds in 2004, 2005 and...to remember the bond fund experience of 2007...and for all-that ...

MAGICIANS NEED NOT APPLY; Smoke and mirrors are slowly but surely being...

Money Management;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......bonds. Chart 1 shows bond fund sales to end May...chart that sales of bond funds have grown steadily...the UK Corporate Bond fund market to be GBP14...taking income from a bond fund seriously impedes...the performance of bond funds has been the grade...

BUYING CORPORATE BOND FUNDS BASED ON YIELD CAN BE A RISKY...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  November 2, 1998 ;     580 words ......three corporate bond funds (including a high-yie...realities of riskier bond funds. Unfortunately...funds by selecting bond funds based on yield...one short-term bond fund to another and...credit quality bond prices declined...If one long-term bond ...

Advisers deploy hedge-fund-like mutual funds; They seek to replace or...

Investment News;  March 27, 2006 ;     667 words ......good complement to bond funds, but it shouldn...average government-bond fund, he said. On the...course, those aren't bond fund categories investors...such as government-bond funds, may make sense...as a government-bond fund, investors may...stick with the ...

The giants of bond funds don't always dominate

The Journal Record;  November 1, 1996 ;     629 words ......at least, the biggest bond funds can operate at a lower...reason that the biggest bond funds should lead the performance...among the 3,500 or so bond funds on the market today...than 1 percent of the bond fund population, these "super...billion invested in bond ...

The Short Answer: How to Find the Best Core Bond Funds.

Morningstar Column (Morningstar);  May 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Finding great core bond funds is a topic I tackled...copy. For the core bond-fund holdings in most...investors' portfolios, bond funds with short- and...intermediate-term bond funds as their family...investors seeking a bond fund with limited ...

Investment companies put new emphasis on bond funds

The Journal Record;  October 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ......consumer demand for bond funds slumped. Now they'...as its flagship bond fund, the $5.1 billion...has hired several bond fund managers and increased...introducing two junk bond funds in the past year...average taxable bond fund rose 15.2 percent...

Bond risk tantamount to mis-selling, says IFA; Nelson Money Managers warns...

Investment Adviser;  November 11, 2002 ;     385 words ...by James Mawson Bond funds are potentially the next mis-selling scandal, Nelson Money Managers has warned. Bond funds have been heavily marketed in the past few years...4bn. In September 2002, GBP344m was put into bond funds, the IMA said. A number of high-yield corporate...However, ...

MORE BOND FUNDS TO BE ISSUED IN SEP

AsiaInfo Services;  September 17, 2008 ;     197 words ...More Bond Funds to be Issued in...expected that more bond funds are likely to be...the issuance of a bond fund in the week ended...signaling that bond funds are welcomed. According...data, total 18 bond funds have been issued...

News Mixed on Bond Funds

AP Online;  March 12, 1999 ;     670 words ......03-12-1999 News Mixed on Bond Funds NEW YORK (AP) -- For...Owners of multisector bond funds, which invest across...and emerging-market bond funds in the convulsion that...Treasury and corporate bond funds in the ``flight to quality...percent for multisector bond ...

Bond Funds Can Also Be Bearish

The Washington Post;  April 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......S. government bond funds outperformed the...re tempted by bond funds in this time of...getting into. Bond funds can help you diversify...But if you think bond funds are "safe," like...you invest in a bond fund, there is no certainty...from the fund's ...

BOND FUNDS COME IN A VARIETY OF CLASSES AND RETURNS.(Business)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 27, 1998 ;     657 words ......and excitement, bond funds should never...simple term ``bond fund'' covers a broad...different types of bond funds can perform very...money into a bond fund to check thoroughly...known as junk bond funds, posted a 4.14...S. government bond ...

YOUR PERSONAL FINANCE: Bonds or Bond Funds

Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  April 30, 1997 ;     673 words ......FINANCE: Bonds or Bond Funds Bonds have not...you buy a bond. Bond funds provide a good...individual bonds. Bond funds offer professional...compelling advantages, bond funds aren't always...of fluctuating bond fund prices. One flaw of bond ...

Bond funds are OK as part of a diversified portfolio

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 30, 2004 ;     545 words ...MUTUAL FUNDS Bond funds are OK as part of a diversified portfolio By...says Bill Gross, manager of the biggest of all bond funds, the Pimco Total Return Fund. Those U.S. government...according to Investment Company Institute data, bond funds attracted just $8.9 billion of net new ...