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Stable currencies continue to make local currency bonds a top pick for fixed income fund managers looking for yield, volume, and liquidity.
Fixed income fund managers piled into local currency debt of the big emerging markets for the third straight week, according to fund trackers at EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
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Fixed-income fund investors are seeking any advantage they can find in this low interest rate environment.
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Local currency bonds are the investment of choice of global fixed income mutual fund managers and Brazil is usually top on the list.
One European fixed-income fund manager said his firm didn't participate in the deal because the bond was too expensive and his company already owns a number of Turkish bank bonds.
Smarting from criticism that it had turned a blind eye to loose budgets and an unsustainable fixed exchange rate, the Fund's staff were determined not to conclude yet another weak deal.
The life of the fund is usually fixed.
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The Strategic Latin America Fund is a balanced fund holding 60% fixed income, 40% equity currently.
This, coupled with fixed income exposure, served the fund well over 2011 relative to broader equity indices.
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"In the near future, investors cannot assume that bailouts will continue, " says Cai Yiyi, who manages fixed-income investments at Rongtong Fund Management in Shenzhen.
There's yet another reason grandparents looking to stash a large sum in 529 plans may favor fixed income: You can only fund a 529 plan with cash.
First, they must carry a pro rata profit actually earned by the fund, instead of a fixed return being tied up with their face value.
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There isn't an actively managed U.S. mutual fund that invests solely in Australia, but there is an exchange-traded fixed basket of Aussie stocks, the Ishares Morgan Stanley Capital Index Australia Index Fund from Barclays Global Investors.
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years.
The answer is, overwhelmingly, insurance companies peddling high-cost, tax-deferred variable annuities with crappy proprietary mutual fund options and high-risk fixed accounts.
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Gyrating 401(k) and IRA retirement fund balances and the low yields from fixed-income investments also have those approaching retirement or who have just entered it flocking to financial advisers for help in deciding upon how to allocate their portfolios to limit risk.
These plans pay out a fixed amount, regardless of the value of the pension fund.
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His Alerion TALF fund borrowed funds from the government at mostly fixed rates of between 2% and 2.46%.
There's no way around it: the mutual fund system we have can't be fixed, and must be replaced.
Fixed-income giant BlackRock is getting together a similar fund.
If the best equity fund manager is overweight Brazil and the best fixed income manager is overweight Brazil, there is no country diversification in a market where risk taken on the wrong country can hurt a portfolio.
Since Feb. 28, the international fund is positive, and behaving like a good fixed income bond should: up 2.6%.
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Its bond, or fixed-income, investments returned 6.7% to the fund.
Eric Jacobson, director of fixed-income research at Morningstar, says investors should consider using this fund as an add-on to their bond portfolio rather than a core holding.
"We see February as a pause rather than something to be concerned about, " said Emma du Haney, senior fixed-income product specialist at Insight Investment, a London-based fund manager.
Notice a portfolio like that is underweight equities from a balanced fund perspective, which is usually 60% equities and 40% fixed income.
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