Another area muni bond fund investors should look for are how much in Florida, Arizona, California and Nevada community development bonds their fund owns.
Previously, in the placement of bonds to fund payments to Ireland and Portugal, the EFSF sold five- and 10-year maturities.
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There will be more bank failures no matter what, but the government wants to prevent otherwise healthy banks from unnecessarily failing because they are unable to sell short-term notes and bonds to fund their own activities.
We need systems that make positions transparent in a single database and then tag them to exposures in a mutual fund, bonds or a hedge fund so if you want to see the accounting position you can get it across different types of holdings.
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The mission of stock pickers in a managed mutual fund is to outperform the overall market by actively trading individual stocks or bonds, with fund managers receiving higher fees for their effort.
The Social Security trust fund bonds are explicitly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
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It has become necessary now to redeem some of those trust-fund bonds every year to make up for an annual payroll-tax deficit.
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, a professor at Luiss University in Rome, points out that the decree contained a measure to slash the tax on bonds issued to fund infrastructure projects.
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In 2010, the Social Security system ran its first current account deficit since 1983, and for the first time since the reforms the deficit was covered by redeeming Trust Fund bonds.
There are sufficient Trust Fund bonds to make up the annual deficits and pay all benefits in full and on time for the next 25 years, and there are sufficient federal revenues to redeem the bonds without borrowing another dime from the public.
While the WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen Fund holds bonds, repo and deposits, the CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust holds 100% Japanese Yen.
Many bonds in the BlackRock fund are the by-product of leveraged buyouts.
Some small countries, like Iraq, don't have functioning treasury-bond markets but have sold foreign-currency bonds internationally, giving fund managers another avenue to invest in them.
Congress spent these surpluses, and the U.S. Treasury issued the Social Security Trust Fund special bonds, which can be redeemed whenever the Social Security system has a current account deficit.
The other reasons why people invest in bonds, which is diversification, to dampen volatility, sure, you get that, when you invest in individual bonds or a bond fund, but the thing about the individual bond that the bond fund lacks is that ability to be predictable.
Demand for longer-dated government bonds has come from other sorts of fund managers too, such as those with portfolios of mortgage-backed securities (bonds secured against lots of mortgages).
The school's previous, bearish manager had put the fund heavily into bonds.
In bankruptcy court earlier this year, a judge ruled that Stockton could suspend payments on its bonds even while continuing to fund its employee retirement system.
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For the history-challenged, I recommend reviewing the experience of holders of Washington (state) Public Power Supply bonds that were issued to fund a nuclear power plant.
PIMCO, as the company that runs one of the largest mutual funds in the world, also has the largest single fund investing in bonds, which indeed includes government debt.
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The UK is pressing for a series of solutions, including a larger bailout fund, euro bonds and structural reform within the European Union - which could lead to greater fiscal burden-sharing between the poorest and wealthiest countries.
For example, the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index contains more than 6, 000 bonds, but the Barclays iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond Fund ( AGG) contains only a little more than 100 of those bonds.
What this means is that when the income generated by bonds falls, as it has been doing, any pension fund would theoretically have to hold massively more of those bonds to meet the cost of future pension payments.
Barrickman, manager of the Vanguard's fund, said it holds 52% in Treasury bonds, much higher than 19% from Mr. Gross's fund, for example.
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The bond fund managers buy tobacco bonds to juice up the yield and entice investors, especially the yield hogs.
Again, the state intervened, by forcing banks to set up a fund to buy corporate bonds, one-third of which will be junk.
Called the CQS Rig Finance Fund, it's the world's first fund that invests in bonds sold by companies--many of them Norwegian--to build and upgrade offshore oil rigs.
Pols, like then-governor Rod Blagojevich, used a form of smoke-and-mirrors known as pension-obligation bonds to avoid actually having to fund ever more generous benefits for his public-employee union cronies.
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