Ultra-short bond funds and enhanced-cash funds, which touted themselves as cash alternatives but invested in spicier debt than true money funds are allowed to, have fallen by the wayside.
The story is similar with its top bond fund, the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund, run by Virtus-owned money manager Newfleet Asset Management.
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Short term bond yields increased slightly to 3.64% for the benchmark 10-year Treasury, while the 30-year bond yields fell to 4.68%.
Personally, Steinhardt is net short the bond market, reflecting his feeling that the stock market is going to continue recovering, and interest rates may have hit their lows.
Among its best performing funds are the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund run by Newfleet Asset Management and its Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund run by Vontobel Asset Management.
The slope of the yield curve can be measured in varying ways but is conventionally thought of as the long-term government bond rate minus the short-term government bond rate.
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Last year, the average short-term bond fund gained about 9%, according to Morningstar.
To prevent yield chasing, most stable value funds prohibit transfers to similar options, such as a money market or short-term bond fund.
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Such low rates will also keep a lid on short-term bond yields.
Markets had a weak open Monday as talk of spending cuts to address the rising national deficit pushed short-term bond yields up slightly higher.
Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives.
Short-term bond funds also take at least one day to liquidate, and some may have penalties to prevent rapid trading into and out of the fund.
If you own bond funds, you can either opt for funds with shorter durations or create a fund barbell by mixing long-term and short-term bond funds.
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Other than parking cash for a few years in short-term bond index funds to beat money markets, lazier investors might do better with actively managed broad-spectrum bond funds.
Consider alternative investments for your intermediate-term goals like short-term bond funds, municipal bond funds or income funds that include dividend-paying stocks in the mix but watch for bonds with long maturities.
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Vanguard would place the Muchmores firmly in its index funds, from the Short-Term Bond Index (charging 0.2% of assets per year) to the Total Stock Market Index (0.2%), a Wilshire 5000 tracker.
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In most 401(k) plans, to move money from a stable-value account into a money-market fund or short-term bond fund, plan participants have to be invested in a riskier option for at least 90 days.
Charles Schwab ( SCHW - news - people ) is fending off dozens of class actions, and an SEC warning about possible civil action, related to alleged misrepresentation of its YieldPlus short-term bond funds.
The SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate Bond ETF ( SCPB) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-3 Year Corporate Bond Index.
The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.
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There also are funds that offer one-stop-shop exposure to a variety of strategies traditionally associated with hedge funds, including long-short equity or nontraditional bond strategies.
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At the time it began to sink, unable to meet margin calls, Long-Term Capital was, for example, long large amounts of the 29-year Treasury bond and short equally large amounts of the 30-year Treasury.
If you fear rising interest rates and prefer to keep your bond maturities short, the ratio of muni to Treasury yield is actually highest at the short end (140%-261% for one- to five- year triple-AAA paper).
College-savings professionals recommend money-market and short-term-bond funds.
There is no magic that insurance companies can do to enhance long term returns on a bond portfolio, and given the costs involved most investors would be far better served to invest in a short-term, high quality bond index fund.
So they sold short the lower- yielding bond and bought the higher-yielding bond.
Then again, that pop in the 10-year bond market was short lived.
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