BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Bond Fund
- a mutual fund that invests in bonds
Additional Resources
- Has The Time Passed For Municipal Bond Funds?
- The question this article tries to address is do municipal bond funds still have a place in today’s portfolios? After closely examining yield and bond fund expenses, along with other factors such as diversification, it is concluded that many investors would do better with individual issues. A well-run bond fund...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Bond Funds
- "Bond fund" and "Income fund" are terms used to describe a type of investment company (mutual fund, closed-end fund, or Unit Investment Trust UIT) that invests primarily in bonds or other types of debt securities. Depending on its investment objectives and policies, a bond fund may concentrate its investments in...
- White papers 2000-10-19
- Selecting a Bond Mutual Fund: Just Keep It Simple
- With all the volatility in the stock market over the past year, it seems like a good time to talk about what matters when screening bond funds. The article concludes that bond fund investors who realize the difficulty in forecasting movements in interest rates and default spreads and, therefore, don’t...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Rising Interest Rates: What Should Bond Investors Do
- This article is on rising bond interest rates. A bond fund can accomplish three basic things. It can provide income. It can stabilize the fluctuating value of a portfolio that includes equities. It can sometimes be sold for more than its purchase price. Most bond fund investors would be happy...
- White papers
- All About Bonds
- Some investors tell they would never have a portfolio that includes bonds. This always surprises, because the basics of bonds are quite easy to figure out. In half an hour, an investor can learn enough to put bonds to work as either part or all of a portfolio. Bond is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Social Bond Fund Helps Build Communities
- Bond funds are a natural fit for promoting community development. By buying CDs with community development banks and credit unions, the Domini Social Bond Fund is channeling investors’ money directly to where it can be put to work in struggling urban and rural communities. The community development banks and credit...
- White papers 2003-07-24
- Investing: To Swap Or Not
- Before you haul all your depreciated bonds off to a swap meet with your broker, be sure to account for the cost of replacing each bond you sell. This financial calculator will show you how. The spread between the price dealers pay for a bond and the price at which...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Bond vs. Bond Funds
- This article is on bond funds. Bond funds can be even trickier than bonds themselves because -- unlike the implication in their name -- they are not really fixed-income investments. Even when a mutual fund's portfolio is composed entirely of bonds, the fund itself has neither a fixed yield nor...
- White papers
- Junk Bonds: Everything You Need to Know
- This article provides information to the investor about junk bonds. To many investors, the term "junk bond" evokes thoughts of investment scams and high-flying financiers of the 1980s such as Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken, who were known as "junk bond kings." But don't misunderstand, if someone has a bond...
- White papers
- Bond Index Funds - A Synopsis
- The main highlight of this article is bond index funds. The first bond index fund was in the early conceptual stages in 1985. Some of its advantages include: consistent performance, Index funds enjoy lower operating expenses, tough to beat the market in bonds, diversification. However, it suffers from severe limitations....
- White papers 2000-06-30
- Asset Allocation Within Fixed Income
- Outperforming average bond fund on a risk-adjusted basis is not a particularly difficult task for the savvy retail investor. Investing in bond funds is a flawed exercise--particularly in a low interest rate environment. High management fees on bond funds offset much of their active management and diversification benefits. Fixed-income fund...
- White papers 2002-11-14
- 6 Bond Funds for Surefire Savings
- Bond investors are beating the market this year, but investors in bond mutual funds can't count on taking those profits to the bank. Bond funds have a quirk: They never mature. When a bond comes of age, you get your money back. Bond funds, on the other hand, are eternal...
- White papers
- Bond Markets in Emerging Economies: An Overview of Policy Issues
- Central banks have multiple interests in the development of bond markets. At a fundamental level, the government bond markets help to fund budget deficits in a non-inflationary way and so enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy. Many of them were considered by small group of central bankers at the BIS...
- White papers 2002-07-25
- CI Canadian Bond Fund
- The article overviews that U.S. bond market volatility of the last few months has been due in large part to the nature of the residential mortgage markets in that country. In contrast with Canada, where mortgage terms rarely exceed five years, American homeowners typically secure fixed-rate mortgages with 30-year terms....
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Should I Buy A Zero Coupon Bond?
- This calculator compares two bond investments buying a bond at a substantial discount to par value and receiving no coupon (a zero-coupon bond), and buying a bond with a coupon. User can select a Treasury security, corporate bond or municipal bond. Treasury securities are exempt from state income taxes. Municipal...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Features of Mutual Funds
- A mutual fund is an investment company that pools money from shareholders and invests in a diversified portfolio of securities. Mutual fund investors buy fund shares that represent ownership in all of the fund's securities. There are four basic types of mutual funds: stock also called equity, money market, bond,...
- White papers 2002-09-13
- Bond ETFs: A Viable Alternative
- While some electronic bond trading is available to retail investors, the entire bond market remains an over-the-counter market. Unlike stock trading - for which automation has leveled the playing field for retail and institutional investors - the bond market lacks liquidity and price transparency except for the most liquid of...
- White papers 2005-01-11
- Portfolio Management for a Random Field of Bond Returns
- A new method of bond portfolio optimization is described. The method is based on stochastic string models of bond returns. It is shown how to approximate the bond return correlation function with Pade approximations and how to compute the optimal portfolio allocation using Wiener-Hopf factorization. The technique is illustrated with...
- White papers 2003-11-18
- Bond Spreads
- The term bond spreads or spreads refer to the interest rate differential between two bonds. Mathematically, a bond spread is the simple subtraction of one bond yield from another. Bond spreads are the common way that market participants compare the value of one bond to another, much like price-earnings ratios...
- White papers
- Common Determinants of Bond and Stock Market Liquidity : The Impact of Financial Crises, Monetary Policy, and Mutual Fund Flows
- Article discusses a study related to common determinants of daily bid-ask spreads and trading volume for the bond and stock markets over the 1991-98 period. It was found that spread changes in one market are affected by lagged spread and volume changes in both markets. Further, spread and volume changes...
- White papers 2001-12-11
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