Not exact matches
A
bond fund with a longer average maturity will see its net asset value (NAV) react more dramatically to changes
in interest rates as the prices of the
underlying bonds in the portfolio increase or decline.
The
fund is proportionately subject to the risks associated with its
underlying funds, which may invest
in stocks (including stocks issued by REITs),
bonds, cash, inflation - linked investments, commodity - linked investments, long / short market - neutral investments, and leveraged absolute return investments.
The risk you take when you invest
in anything but the shortest - term
bond funds is that when interest rates rise, the
underlying principal value is likely to fall.
In the initial stage, the regulators said Friday, the linkage will only apply to general equity and
bond funds, as well as to certain exchange - traded
funds that track benchmark stock indexes by purchasing the
underlying shares.
Invests
in shares of
underlying funds — AFIS Growth - Income
Fund and AFIS
Bond Fund — while seeking to manage portfolio volatility and provide downside protection, primarily through the use of exchange - traded futures.
Invests
in shares of
underlying funds — AFIS International
Fund and AFIS
Bond Fund — while seeking to manage portfolio volatility and provide downside protection, primarily through the use of exchange - traded futures.
Invests
in shares of
underlying funds — AFIS Growth
Fund and AFIS
Bond Fund — while seeking to manage portfolio volatility and provide downside protection, primarily through the use of exchange - traded futures.
The level of the index (and these
funds) will fluctuate based on changes
in the price of the
underlying bonds, not their yields.
These
funds also tend to pay out good dividends as a result of the
underlying bonds in their portfolios.
The
underlying funds in a variable annuity are invested
in subaccounts, which are professionally managed investment options that invest
in stock and / or
bond markets.
The percentages of the Portfolio's assets allocated to each
Underlying Fund are: Vanguard Total
Bond Market II Index
Fund 14 % Vanguard Total International
Bond Index
Fund 5 % Vanguard Short - Term Inflation - Protected Securities Index
Fund 6 % Vanguard Federal Money Market
Fund 75 % Through its investment
in Vanguard Total
Bond Market II Index
Fund, the Portfolio indirectly invests
in a broadly diversified collection of securities that,
in the aggregate, approximates the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index
in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics.
Investments
in bond funds are subject to possible loss due to the financial failure of the
underlying securities and their inability to meet their current obligations.
A
bond mutual
fund's share price is always exactly its net asset value, or the value of the
underlying securities
in its portfolio.
But the principle is still the same: when interest rates rise, the value of all these
underlying bonds will fall
in value, so the price of your
fund will decline to reflect that.
Sure, the
underlying value of the
bond fund might decline
in value when the stock market is tanking, but that is fine, since I'm just using the income they generate to DCA across other investments.
A floating rate
fund invests
in bonds and debt instruments whose coupons fluctuate
in line with the
underlying level of interest rates, as opposed to fixed - rate coupons.
However, the cash payments from the
underlying bonds is
in the neighbourhood of 3 % to 3.5 % for broad - based index
funds, which will offset at least some of that price decline.
It is possible that as the
fund manager changes the portfolio composition over time, she may actually lose or make money relative to a static portfolio of the
underlying, but this is no different
in a
bond fund than
in a stock
fund.
The percentages of the Portfolio's assets allocated to each
Underlying Fund are: Vanguard ® Total
Bond Market II Index Fund 60 % Vanguard ® Total International Bond Index Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 y
Bond Market II Index
Fund 60 % Vanguard ® Total International
Bond Index Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 y
Bond Index
Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index
Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index
Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two
bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 y
bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of
bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated
bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities
in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 year.
The percentages of the Portfolio's assets allocated to each
Underlying Fund are: Vanguard Total
Bond Market II Index
Fund 70 % Vanguard Total International
Bond Index
Fund 17.50 % Vanguard Institutional Total Stock Market Index
Fund 8.75 % Vanguard Total International Stock Index
Fund 3.75 % Through its investment
in Vanguard Total
Bond Market II Index
Fund, the Portfolio indirectly invests
in a broadly diversified collection of securities that,
in the aggregate, approximates the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index
in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics.
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funds and etf's.
Here they're usually just either a few mutual
funds blended together, or just the same
underlying basket of stocks and
bonds that's
in all other similar mutual
funds at the time.
The Schwab Target 2060
Fund also may invest
in securities other than shares of
underlying funds, such as stocks,
bonds, ETFs and money market securities, and engage
in certain investment techniques, which are outlined below.
Each of the Schwab Target Index
Funds also may invest in securities other than shares of underlying funds, such as stocks, bonds, ETFs and money market securities, and engage in certain investment techniques, which are outlined b
Funds also may invest
in securities other than shares of
underlying funds, such as stocks, bonds, ETFs and money market securities, and engage in certain investment techniques, which are outlined b
funds, such as stocks,
bonds, ETFs and money market securities, and engage
in certain investment techniques, which are outlined below.
Rather than growing at a set rate of interest, though, with variable universal life, the
funds in the cash component are actually managed professionally (unlike variable life policies that are managed by the policyholder)
in underlying «subaccounts» and can be
in entities such as stocks,
bonds, and mutual
funds.