So when an advisor offers a bond fund rate in the range of 3-7%, it can seem like a logical choice.
The dollar is being dragged down by continued speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut the key Fed Fund rate at its meeting on Wednesday.
Governments are also under tremendous pressure to keep their pension fund rate of return high: the lower the rate of return on investment, the greater the pension obligations become.
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Salomon Brothers Emerging Market Floating Rate Fund buys adjustable-rate bonds from emerging-market companies and countries.
Berry likes the similar Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund, yielding 1.9% after expenses of 1.8%, for its "steady performance and proven management" and the no-load Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund, which is returning 2.9% after expenses of 0.9%.
Nuveen Senior Income Fund and Nuveen Floating Rate Income Opportunity Fund.
The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
We will be doing some things differently to Britain as we have no Work Programme and will not be devolving the Social Fund or our rate rebate scheme to local authorities.
The International Monetary Fund predicts a growth rate of 4.9% this year.
All big businesses in Northern Ireland may have to pay an extra levy to fund the Small Business Rate Relief Scheme.
Then, by adding two known costs, the annual expense ratio and trading commissions, Barra computed what it calls a fund's hurdle rate.
Why, you may ask yourself, should a fund's hurdle rate matter?
The Neuberger Berman Global Floating Rate Income Fund is also London-listed, but its portfolio is heavily skewed towards U.S. loans, which account for more than 80% of the portfolio.
And supporters say the high speed link is a vital part of the regeneration of east London, with the leading executives of 82 of London's largest companies promising they would accept a one-off supplementary business rate to fund the rail link.
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There are a thousand arguments for and against this already, but one does have to admit that in times of economic recession lower revenues can be expected and the government needs to act accordingly by having a rainy day fund or fluxing the rate.
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Finally, despite the fact that the most industry commentators were opposed to the proposal, the new amendments require a mutual fund that invests more than 10 percent in equities to disclose the average commission rate paid by the fund.
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Shifting the composition of the trust fund's portfolio in itself raises neither the savings rate nor national income: the fund would own more shares and fewer bonds, the private sector more bonds and fewer shares.
At Fidelity, the firm's offering in this space is the Floating Rate High Income Fund.
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The bank has used up all the money it had allocated to fund the record low-rate deal.
One pension-scheme manager says he demanded, and quickly secured, a halving of his fee rate from a fund-of-funds.
That means we will probably need to keep the capital gains (vs. ordinary income) rate for hedge fund managers and private equity people.
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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.
Caxton Global Investment returned 0.7% net of fees in 2011, better than the average hedge fund but far from the rate of return Caxton investors have been accustomed to. 2012 has been no kinder to the firm, down -3.4% net of fees through July 2012.
Germany has a high savings rate but pension-fund assets of just 14% of GDP.
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At that rate, the trust fund on which 31.6 million pension checks are drawn every month will be nearly empty by July 1, 1983.
Don't buy a fund that greatly exceeds this turnover rate unless it delivered really outstanding results--beating the market by a wide margin over a long period and with the same manager at the helm most of that time.
Mr Lee argues instead that America's slow growth will be the consequence of its terrible savings rate on the grounds that America cannot borrow from abroad to fund its investment for ever, and investment drives the growth rate.
Overoptimistic assumptions about future earnings on a pension fund artificially prop up earnings and thus rate a minus.
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