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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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Bonds can cut volatility while generating income |
The Seattle Times - Jan. 30, 2010 - By Pamela Yip
DALLAS — When people talk about investment tips, they focus on stocks. Few ask me which hot bond to buy.
Bonds are a very different animal but they can, and should, have a place in your investment portfolio.
Investors starved by dismally low yields in money-market mutual funds and bank accounts sought refuge in bonds in 2009.
From January through November, investors poured $262 billion into taxable bond mutual funds, by far the most new money of any asset class, said Miriam Sjoblom, a fund analyst at Morningstar.
Municipal bond funds received the second-highest amount of new money at $67 billion, she said.
In contrast, she said, investors withdrew $390 billion in assets from money-market funds in 2009.
Those who put their money in bonds got a big bang for their buck. The typical intermediate-term bond fund — where most investors' core bond holdings fall — soared 14 percent in 2009, Sjoblom said.
Bond funds that take greater risks, such as multisector or junk bond funds, gained on average 29 percent and 47 percent, respectively, in 2009.
As appealing as those returns sound, there are things you need to know about bonds before you make the plunge.
A stock represents ownership in a company, while a bond is a loan that you the bond purchaser make to a company.
"When designing a portfolio, bonds serve the important function of reducing volatility while generating income," said Thomas E. Murphy, certified financial planner at TEMAA Financial in Dallas.
A major reason investors buy stocks is for capital appreciation, to have them increase in value. But stocks' values fluctuate
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