Chung was being forced out - by his own brother, no less - of a company he had helped to build nearly from scratch into a world-class competitor over a span of 32 years.

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During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).

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