Bond Funds
Keep up with the latest news about bond funds which can provide diversity and income to portfolios and offset equity risk.
Pain in Spain May Bring No Economic Gain: News Analysis
By Gil WeinreichBill Gross put Spain's failed bond auction in perspective: Greece was a zit, Portugal is a boil, Spain is a tumor. You cant fix a debt crisis with austerity and more debt.
April 02, 2012
Investors Say No to Greek Bond RestructuringInvestors holding Greek sovereign debt issued under foreign laws and denominated in dollars, euros, Swiss francs and yen said no to a Greek restructuring plan, leaving the country to find another way through its debt maze as it seeks to avoid outright financial collapse.
March 30, 2012
Ireland to Use Bond, Not Cash, to Make PaymentIreland will make a scheduled payment of 3.1 billion euros to the Irish Bank Resolution Corp. at the end of March with a bond, not with bailout cash.
March 30, 2012
Euro Zone Agrees on FirewallThe temporary European Financial Stability Facility and permanent European Stability Mechanism will be combined for a year, for a total of 940 billion euros. But that figure seems to include money already spent.
March 27, 2012
Financial Repression: How Governments Punish SaversAs if on cue, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled he would take further action to keep interest rates low the day a new study on financial repression predicted the tactic.
March 27, 2012
AIJ Chief Denies Cheating, Admits Loss Cover-upSpeaking publicly for the first time since AIJ made headlines for losing client funds, the company president, Kazuhiko Asakawa, said that while he did cover up losses of $1.3 billion, he had never intended to cheat his customers and had been confident that the firm could recover the money.
March 26, 2012
BlackRock Adds Bond SectorsBlackRock, sponsor of the iShares ETFs, launched seven bond ETFs focused on specific segments within the fixed income market.
March 26, 2012
Stats Show Bond Fund ShiftSince the 2008 financial crisis, the intermediate-term bond category has grown from less than $500 billion in assets to nearly $930 billion.