Schroders Short Term
Municipal Bond investment strategy seeks to maximize after - tax yield and income by investing across the spectrum of investment grade municipal debt.
Not exact matches
Another possible
strategy would be to shift some of your
investments with taxable earnings into
municipal bonds and
municipal bond funds, whose earnings are excluded from the MAGI and the net
investment income calculation.
The
investment universe for this
strategy considers both tax - exempt
municipal bonds as well as US dollar - denominated taxable fixed income securities, including governments, corporate
bonds, asset backed securities and sovereign and supranational entities and taxable
municipals.
While the two main categories of funds are those that provide taxable or tax - exempt income to investors,
bond funds also vary based on maturity (short - term, long - term), type of issuer (
municipal, corporate, etc.),
strategy,
investment objective and credit quality.
A short - term
municipal bond strategy has provided a similar risk and return experience to the ladder options, and might be appropriate if the investor does not want to manage the maintenance of a ladder, or does not need the option of withdrawing proceeds from the
investment on a regular basis.
For
investments outside of your retirement portfolio you can use
strategies like investing in tax free
municipal bonds and holding on to
investments for longer than a year to lower capital gain taxes.
While buying
municipals bonds is viewed as a conservative
investment strategy, it is not risk - free.
The proposal sounded attractive to Mr. Cautious, who knew that the projected returns were considerably higher than what he could currently earn with 10, 15 and 20 year
municipal bonds, but when Mr. Cautious discussed it with his
investment advisor, he was told that the
strategy sounded «risky».