At the Shadow Open Market Committee fall meeting on Sept. 15, economist Peter Ireland of Boston College argued that the effect of reducing the balance sheet is ultimately equivalent to an open - market sale of bonds by the Fed of the kind it would undertake in order to push up the fed funds interest rate. (breakingviews.com)
Full - service brokers offer clients a wide range of services including: helping clients develop investment goals, researching and recommending investment opportunities for individual clients, as well as executing purchases and sales of bonds for a client's portfolio. (investinginbonds.com)
Since 2008 there have been $ 280 billion in net redemptions from stock mutual funds, vs. $ 645 billion in net sales of bond funds, according to the Investment Company Institute. (fortune.com)