Sentences with phrase «municipal bond investors»

Selling prior to maturity can present a challenge for municipal bond investors due to the fragmented and thinly traded nature of the market.

They may be able to build a portfolio around certain investment - grade municipal bonds an investor currently owns, provided they meet the selection criteria and overall portfolio investment guidelines.

The town also finds itself fighting a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint that charged Oyster Bay, and Venditto, with defrauding municipal bond investors by concealing more than $ 20 million in loans the town guaranteed indirectly for Singh.

2013 was a not a fun year for municipal bond investors with bond prices and returns being pushed down by events in Detroit and Puerto Rico.

And in the California lawsuit particularly, ExxonMobil has taken an extremely aggressive response: the company has counter-claimed, arguing that the California cities are restricting its «First Amendment right to participate in the national dialogue about climate change» and are failing to warn their own municipal bond investors of the risks of climate change.

The U.S. territory is seeking to restructure its $ 72 - billion of debt, which is widely held by U.S. municipal bond investors because of the debt's tax - free status..

Federal regulators secured a settlement with a Long Island lawyer this week — part of a sprawling probe into two years of kickbacks that allegedly fleeced municipal bond investors by securing loans for a local business owner.

Given recent market conditions, specifically a rising interest rate environment, questions regarding the treatment of market discount have become particularly relevant for many municipal bond investors, and some confusion has arisen over the application of this provision.

We believe that an integrated team of research - driven municipal bond investors is the ideal structure to take advantage of these inefficiencies.

Western Asset Management's top municipal bond investor, Robert Amodeo and Morningstar's personal finance guru Christine Benz, have some answers.

Data as of May 1, 2014 2013 was a not a fun year for municipal bond investors with bond prices and returns being pushed down by events in Detroit and Puerto Rico.

Given the recent financial problems experienced by municipal governments such as Detroit and Puerto Rico, it is now more important than ever for municipal bond investors to be aware of financial issues before they occur.

This means commodity and municipal bond investors will need to pick up where federal dollars leave off.

The civil complaint alleged that Genova and others «engaged in a scheme to defraud investors» by assisting an unnamed concessionaire in obtaining loan guarantees and not disclosing them to town taxpayers or municipal bond investors.

As a result, municipal bond investors are willing to accept lower yields for tax - exempt instruments than for from taxable investments.

Failed auctions in the Muni sector started to occur last summer, but the frequency of these busted auctions surged in the past month as doubts increased as to the solvency of the insurers who once exclusively provided added security to municipal bond investors, thus the term «monolines.»