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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For example, the iShare short-term fund mirrors the Lehman one- to three-year U.S. Treasury Index.
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.
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.
Last year, the average short-term bond fund gained about 9%, according to Morningstar.
Critics argue that he should allow borrowing to rise even further in the short term to directly fund capital spending.
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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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.
The commercial paper market is growing increasingly antsy and GE, not unlike a hedge fund, is stuck with some percentage of long-term assets that it is trying to fund with short-term money.
Kraft says it plans to use cash on hand and short-term borrowings to fund the purchase.
At a minimum, it encourages the unsound structuring of their borrowing activity -- for example, through the USSR's tapping of Western interbank short-term deposits to fund medium-term purposes at home and abroad.
It has a large financial services division and has come under pressure in recent days on concerns that even it, with its triple-A credit rating, would have trouble selling short-term debt to fund those operations.
Corporations sell commercial paper, a short-term IOU, to fund day-to-day activities like payroll.
But it is too soon to tell whether the vehicle will ever be restored to its former pre-credit-crunch glory, when it was able to issue short-term commercial paper to fund its investments in asset-backed securities.
In the past several years, CIC has significantly reduced its holdings of public securities and accelerated a push into longer-term investments as the fund seeks to shield itself from short-term market swings.
What if you are buying a short- to intermediate-term bond fund, not the bond itself?
Instead of borrowing shares of individual stocks or even borrowing an ETF, traders can buy the FAZ and, in the short term, realize gains in the fund as financial stocks decline.
The site, Last Lot, is a short-term donation to Art Production Fund from The Shubert Organization, and is part of the Times Square Alliance initiative to bring art to Times Square.
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.
The trend, says David Sherman, manager of the RiverPark Short Term High Yield (RPHYX) bond fund could be drawing to a close.
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On the other hand, if you are buying a fund for purely short-term trading, be prepared to sell it quickly and do not treat it as a long-term position.
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.
On the other hand, private-equity firms, with their long-term perspective, have no obvious claim on the short-term trading skills needed to succeed in the hedge-fund business.
Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
One reason may be accounting changes which make pension-fund managers more focused on the short term.
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The commission wants the Fund to restrict itself to short-term loans for economies in crisis at higher-than-market interest rates, rather than long-term concessional credit to cover balance-of-payments deficits.
Mr Rigby, who last month pledged to fund the station in the short-term, said his proposal was subject to commercial confidentiality but has now revealed some "common sense" elements of his scheme.
"In the short term, obviously the EU and the International Monetary Fund are looking at ways to try and tide Greece over the next couple of months in terms of its funding, " he told Today presenter Evan Davis.
The fund will provide short- and long-term financial help for the families of the seven victims.
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