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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
| Municipal Bonds |
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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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| S&P/BGCantor US Treasury Bond |
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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ETFs That Pay Up to 7% -- Then Mature |
SmartMoney - Dec. 14, 2011 - BY THE NUMBERS
Hough: A new class of exchange-traded fund puts the "fixed" back in fixed income. Should investors buy in?
In about two weeks, one exchange-traded fund will do something highly unusual. It will mature.
The Guggenheim BulletShares 2011 Corporate Bond ETF (BSCB: 20.14, 0.04, 0.20%) is like most fixed-income ETFs in that it holds a diversified basket of bonds, passes the coupon payments on to shareholders as dividends and trades just like a stock.
But it takes the "fixed" part of fixed income literally. The bonds it holds mature in the same year. In fact, all but one of them has already been paid back into the fund, and the money parked in short-term Treasury bills. The remaining bond matures Thursday. Investors who hold to maturity should get their money back on Dec. 30.
There are other BulletShares portfolios that mature each year through 2015, some for high-quality (and lower yield) issues and some for high-yield (and lower quality) ones.
Bond investors have long been caught between two awkward choices. Individual bonds can add definition and stability to an investment portfolio, but it takes $500,000 or more to put together a diversified portfolio. And judging the creditworthiness of bond issuers is as difficult as assessing the growth prospects of stock issuers.
Traditional bond mutual funds address those problems. Minimum investments are low (often $1,000 to $10,000) and the portfolios are either professionally selected or designed to passively track indexes. But bond funds don't offer fixed returns or maturity dates.
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