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The short durations of these funds reduce risk, but also explain why average yields aren't higher.

Not exact matches

On Money magazine's MONEY 50 recommended list, Vanguard Short - Term Investment Grade (VFSTX) has a duration of 2.6 years, implying if rates were to rise one full point, the price of the fund's holdings would decline 2.6 %.

Some of the best and most experienced investors in the world have a habit of routinely keeping 20 % of their net assets in cash and cash equivalents, often the only truly safe place for parking these funds being a United States Treasury bond of short - duration held directly with the U.S. Treasury.

The trio of ETFs, when they launch, will round out Franklin's bond ETF lineup, which already includes a variety of actively managed fixed - income funds covering short - duration U.S. government debt, municipal bonds and the investment - grade corporate debt.

Short duration bond funds can help you manage the impact of interest rate changes on your portfolio.

Traditionally, shorter duration funds have outperformed longer duration funds in periods of rising rates.

Our Near - Term Tax Free Fund (NEARX), which offers tax - free municipal income, appears to be well - positioned to minimize the impact of rising yields by keeping a short duration.

Both of these ETFs track a traditional bond index, and the funds also short Treasury futures to hedge duration risk.

I much like the sound of the short duration of that Fidelity fund, but it seems that Morningstar's view on the fund is only lukewarm:

By shorting a variety of Treasury futures, the fund aims to achieve a net - zero portfolio duration, hence «eliminating» — or at least greatly minimizing — interest - rate risk.

By heavily shorting a variety of Treasury futures, the fund aims to achieve net -5 portfolio duration.

These fellowships include funding for projects of short or long duration.

We track short - term pain by looking at a fund's maximum drawdown, its Ulcer index which measures the depth and duration of a drawdown, its standard deviation and downside deviation.

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For an example of short - duration bond funds, here are the top results for short - term bond, and ultra-short bond category funds from Fidelity's mutual fund evaluator.

Vehicles to consider: A mix of highly liquid accounts, such as money market funds, and less - liquid options, such as CDs or short - duration high quality conservative bond funds

The Strategic Total Return Fund continued to have a relatively short duration of less than 2 years, exposing the Fund to little impact from interest rate fluctuations.

Although short - term bond funds can lose value if interest rates rise, they're less risky than long - term bond funds because of the short duration of their underlying bonds.

Franklin India Cash Management Account is Suitable for parking contingency funds for short durations of more than a week.

If you want more protection against rising rates, you can go with a short - term bond fund — for example, Vanguard Short - Term Bond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index short - term bond fund — for example, Vanguard Short - Term Bond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index Short - Term Bond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index short - term bond index fund.

Ms. Driscoll is a Portfolio Manager of Putnam Government Money Market Fund, Putnam Money Market Fund, and Putnam Short Duration Income Fund.

We narrowed the universe of 1500 funds to exclude not only unskilled managers but fund classes with AUM too small, duration too long, tenure too short (< 3 years), or expenses too great (skill had to exceed expenses, adjusted for loads, by roughly 1 %).

Our short duration funds have an average duration that's typically less than five years, and offer varying yields and levels of credit risk.

In consideration of «current asset size, recent purchase and redemption history and projected expenses,» BPV High Quality Short Duration Income Fund (BPASX) will liquidate on July 11, 2016.

The iShares CDN Short Bond Index Fund (Ticker Symbol XSB) tracks the performance of an index of short - term bonds (1 - 5 years) and sports a MER of 0.25 % and duration of 2.56 yShort Bond Index Fund (Ticker Symbol XSB) tracks the performance of an index of short - term bonds (1 - 5 years) and sports a MER of 0.25 % and duration of 2.56 yshort - term bonds (1 - 5 years) and sports a MER of 0.25 % and duration of 2.56 years.

The difference between the allocations has only been 4 % since mid-December of 2014 when one employs index fund proxies like Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI), iShares Corporate Bond (LQD) and Guggenheim Enhanced Short Duration (GSY).

While the short duration of short - term bond funds may provide some protection against rising rates, IGHG and HYHG go beyond short - term bond funds by targeting a duration of zero.

While the above three funds no longer have any tax advantages, the iShares Advantaged High Yield Bond (CHB) and iShares Advantaged Short Duration High Income (CSD) have both retained their names and — at least temporarily, it seems — some of tax benefits.

Government funding is short duration by nature because of the annual appropriations process, and lack of any restraint — little in the way of rainy day funds — a presumption of prosperity in budgeting.

Amundi Short Duration Government Fund has a Fixed Income objective, seeking to achieve a high level of current income.

The Board of Trustees approved liquidation of the Fountain Short Duration High Income Fund, with the execution carried out March 27, 2015

He is also a portfolio manager of Putnam Absolute Return 100 Fund ®, Putnam Diversified Income Trust, Putnam Global Income Trust, Putnam Fixed Income Absolute Return Fund, Putnam Income Fund, Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust, Putnam Mortgage Securities Fund, Putnam Premier Income Trust, and Putnam Short Duration Income Fund.

(ETF Trends: Jul 22, 2013) ETF Trends delivers a brief profile of ProShares High Yield — Interest Rate Hedged ETF (HYHG), providing details on fund holdings and yield, as well as on the short positions that help it achieve «near negligible» duration.

HYHG goes beyond short - term bond funds by targeting a duration of zero.

Short Duration Municipal Opportunities Fund (EMAIX) 3 Years Out of 21 Short - Intermediate Municipal Debt Funds

Dear Kedar, For SWP of 2 year time - frame, you may consider a Short term debt fund like Franklin low duration fund.

Funds that consist of debt instruments with longer durations are generally more sensitive to a rise in interest rates than those with shorter durations.

The Fund's investments in shorter duration high - yield bonds and floating - rate loans may help provide investor portfolios» a level of protection in a rising - rate environment, as investments in the Fund's universe have typically performed with low correlation to traditional bond markets.

The Fund provides exposure to the shorter duration segment of the high - yield bond market, investing primarily in investments with an expected duration profile of three years or less.

No sales charge applies to Class A and Investor Class share investments of $ 1,000,000 or more ($ 250,000 or more with respect to MainStay California Tax Free Opportunities Fund, MainStay High Yield Municipal Bond Fund, MainStay New York Tax Free Opportunities Fund, MainStay Tax Advantaged Short Term Bond Fund, and MainStay Tax Free Bond Fund; or $ 500,000 or more with respect to MainStay Floating Rate Fund and MainStay Short Duration High Yield Fund).

Buffer funds are typically low - yielding assets of high quality and short duration — short maturity bonds, CDs, savings and bank deposits, etc..

The investment manager for the stable value fund invests in a portfolio of intermediate term bonds with an average duration of approximately three to four years that will provide a significantly higher interest rate, or yield, than for example the short - term (average 60 days or less) securities typically held by a money market fund.

The Vanguard STAR fund benchmark was also up 1.4 % in November matching our Aggressive portfolio exactly, however, in down markets we're generally falling less than this total portfolio fund, mostly because of our short positions and longer - duration bond holdings.

My suggestion is to, either by addition of new funds or through rebalancing, to add shorter term maturities to bond holdings but not to sell my longer duration holdings or flip them to shorter term.

Many of the funds he invests in also own short - duration bonds — fixed - income that matures in one to five years.

Short duration bonds are a good play right now — since the funds continually reinvest in short term bonds, they can easily take advantage of rising interest rates when the time cShort duration bonds are a good play right now — since the funds continually reinvest in short term bonds, they can easily take advantage of rising interest rates when the time cshort term bonds, they can easily take advantage of rising interest rates when the time comes.

Bartlett has also succeeded Plage as co-manager of Fidelity Short Duration High Income Fund (with retail and Advisor share classes), which continues to be lead - managed by Matt Conti, a 21 - year Fidelity veteran.

Actively managed by Marret Asset Management Inc., the First Asset Enhanced Short Duration Bond ETF (the «Fund») aims to provide positive absolute returns over any twelve month period with very low volatility and attractive monthly distributions, regardless of the interest rate or credit environment.

With these plans you have the flexibility to pay premiums for a shorter duration, choose your life cover and your money is invested in unit linked funds of your choice to take care of your long term financial goals

The project fund may not be enough during a period of time so there are steps in the project creation that are needed to be stopped for a short duration.