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Short-Term Bond Fund Yields
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The safest class of bond funds is the category classified as short-term government bond funds. These funds hold a high percentage of U.S.-government securities like Treasuries and agency paper and/or AAA-rated bonds or commercial paper. The prices of these funds are typically less volatile due to the shorter average duration of the holdings in [...]
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Not All Short-Term Bond Funds Look Alike
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Short term bond managers have had the test of a lifetime this summer as wildly gyrating bond and credit markets have repriced their holdings considerably. Funds with nearly identical fund profiles and types of holdings may have considerably different returns. Some funds have hedged their losses with derivatives, while some funds have maintained a clean [...]
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E*Trade Financial Ends Rebates of 12B-1 Fees
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
For the past few years E*Trade has promoted the 50% rebates of 12B-1 fees they had earned from mutual fund companies. 12B-1 fees are paid annually out of a mutual fund’s assets and directly effect the return to investors. Although 12B-1 fees are typically associated with “loaded funds”, no-load funds can charge a 12B-1 fee [...]
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Is the Paypal Money Market Fund Safe?
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The PayPal Money Market Fund (the “Fund”) is designed primarily as an automatic sweep investment for uninvested cash balances in PayPal customer accounts. PayPal customers may choose to have their free cash balances sweptinto the Fund in order to earn income until the cash is used. Shares of the Fund will be automatically redeemed to [...]
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Money Funds to the Rescue
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
Money funds are mutual funds which invest in short-term debt instruments. So short that the average maturity of the holdings in the average money fund is 90 days or less. The short average weighted maturity of the funds has allowed them to historically maintain a net asset value of $1.00 and the distinction of being [...]
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