Focusing on the tax - exempt
municipal bond world, what signals are we paying attention to?
Even in a world where short - term interest rates will continue to rise as the Federal Reserve raises policy interest rates (most likely 2 — 3 times next year) and where long - term rates should rise slowly as the Fed lets its balance sheet shrink, tax - free yields should either stay the same or move down as
the municipal bond world confronts a market with much less issuance.
Not exact matches
In the
municipal bond investing
world, you do not get paid well for taking default risk.
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Class A shares with sales charges performance reflects the maximum 5.5 % sales charge, with the following exceptions: Class A shares of Hartford Emerging Markets Local Debt, Hartford High Yield, Hartford Inflation Plus, Hartford
Municipal Opportunities, Hartford
Municipal Real Return, Hartford Strategic Income, Hartford Total Return
Bond, Hartford
World Bond, Hartford Schroders Emerging Markets Debt and Currency, Hartford Schroders Tax - Aware
Bond, Hartford Schroders Emerging Markets Multi-Sector
Bond and Hartford Schroders Global Strategic
Bond reflect a maximum 4.5 % sales charge; Class A shares of Hartford Floating Rate and Hartford Floating Rate High Income reflect a maximum 3.0 % sales charge; Class A shares of Hartford Short Duration reflect a maximum 2.0 % sales charge.
Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued
bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the
world issue
bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.
Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (Tangibles): +4.57 % Barclays
Municipal Bond: +2.19 % Barclays & S&P US Aggregate
Bond: +1.62 % Barclays 1 -3 Year
Bond: +0.81 % Barclays 3 Year
Municipal Bond: +0.79 % Citicorp Non - $
World Bond (Int» l
Bonds): +0.61 % Cash: 0.16 %