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With bond yields globally in the dumps, Singapore's wealth fund GIC is looking at unconventional sources for fixed income returns, Liew Tzu Mi, GIC's chief investment officer for fixed income, said on Thursday.

Bond investors like mutual funds and pension funds hope to buy securities with comparatively higher yields than other asset - backed debt that could also provide diversification benefits.

In this regard, our surveillance has been closely monitoring for any signs of liquidity strains associated with the recent increases in spreads for high - yield corporate bonds, as well as for idiosyncratic events affecting particular funds in this segment, such as the events surrounding the abrupt closing of Third Avenue Management's Focused Credit Fund last December.

Also remember that if a bond fund yields 6 % currently, it is stuffed with junk bonds.

And retail investors, who have poured massive amounts of money into bond mutual funds because cash had a near - zero yield, can now park money in T - bills and earn close to 2 % with no risk of loss.

In a bond fund you have bonds with different maturities, yields and durations.

Clients can get a nice boost in yield by putting cash positions into bond funds with short maturities, but understand the risks.

Collins has adopted a more defensive position in the last 18 months, reducing duration and credit risk by scaling back overweight positions in high - yield and municipal bonds, but he's sticking with allocations to intermediate term funds.

Bond ETFs saw their highest inflows in three years in April Rise in yields attracted buyersInvestors snapped up fixed - income exchange - traded funds in April, with the category seeing its biggest month of inflows in more than three years.

The High Yield Bond Fund is a concentrated portfolio made up of liquid securities, focused on high quality non-investment grade bonds with strong cash flows.

In an unconstrained bond fund, the manager can hedge interest rate risk with futures, options, or swaps, or even short Treasury bonds or notes, and make up the loss in yield by overweighting credit.

These include REITs, high yield bonds, and stock funds with a high degree of short - term turnover.

High Yield Bond Funds posted outflows for the 13th time in the past 15 weeks, with the latest redemptions the biggest since early March, while Emerging Markets Bond Funds recorded their largest outflow since the second week of February.

As yields have fallen, duration, or rate sensitivity, has risen, meaning that the risk associated with a change in rates has generally risen for most bond benchmarks and traditional funds.

When an individual without financial sophistication is faced with a choice between equity and fixed - income funds, international or domestic, large - cap or small - cap, high - yield or treasury bonds, they face choice - overload and the decision can be overwhelming.

If much of the investment into bond mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.

There are various ways to participate in the Junk Bond rally that is just underway - from purchasing individual corporate bonds to diversifying risk with double - digit yielding Bond ETFs, Mutual Funds and individual corporate paper.

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A diversified bond fund that invests at least 70 % of its assets in investment - grade debt with tactical investments in high - yield and non-U.S. dollar bonds.

This would test the resilience of the economic expansion, and if the economy keeps growing as long bonds rise in yield, then match the rises in long yields with rises in the Fed Funds rate.

Those considering an investment in a municipal bond fund should start with figuring out their taxable equivalent yield.

With a yield below 2.0 %, The Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund does not look attractive from an income perspective.

With fully two - thirds of its money invested in domestic and foreign stocks, private equity and «absolute return strategies» (i.e., hedge funds), the New York State pension fund has a risky asset allocation profile typical of its counterparts across the country — because chasing risk is its only hope of earning 7 percent a year in a market where the most secure long - term bonds yield barely 2 percent.

However, the fund's large equity stake adds risk to the portfolio, which, with large positions in high - yield (20 %) and non-U.S. dollar denominated bonds (30 %), is already one of the multisector category's most volatile.»

Some high yield bond funds are reeling with the impact of the price of oil on energy related companies with debt.

Today, with the average yield below 3 %, that 1 % increase would create a negative return of -3.41 % on a typical core bond fund.

With multiple bond ETF yield measures to choose from, it can be difficult for investors to quickly assess what their fund is yielding.

The fund started out with the idea of giving investors access to a diversified portfolio of high yield bonds on the stock market.

The risk taken with a portfolio split 50/50 between stocks and a money market fund is miles from one split between stocks and high yield corporate bonds.

Even if a bond fund manager has discretion with their maturities, I might opt for GICs over a lot of bond funds these days because reasonably conservative, high - quality bonds might only be paying 3 % yields right now.

With an attractive yield advantage over comparable maturity government bond mutual funds of similar duration and quality, the Fund may serve as a core holding for building diversified income portfolios.

Because municipal bonds are sensitive to interest rate movements, the fund's yield and share price will fluctuate with market conditions.

However, because bond funds» yields fluctuate with the market, reinvestment risk still exists.

The BMO Floating Rate Income Fund, for example, lost more than 48 % in 2008 as high - yield bonds cratered along with stocks and real estate.

Today, a traditional bond index exchange - traded fund (ETF) with an average term of about 10 years has a yield to maturity of about 1.7 %.

Simply rebalancing each year between Fidelity's EM stock and bond funds so that you end up with a 60/40 weighting in a hypothetical balanced portfolio yields the same result for the past 10 - and 15 - year periods.

This, though, was a function of the trend in interest rates; at the start of those periods, the funds were buying bonds with higher yields than bonds offer today.

Here's the break - out, by fund inception date: Some observations: - Every fund listed (5 years or older) with current yields of 6 % or more, lost more than 20 % of its value in 2008, except three: PIMCO Income A PONAX, which lost only 6.0 %; TCW Total Return Bond I TGLMX, which lost only 6.2 % (in 1994); and First Eagle High Yield I FEHIX, which lost 15.8 %.

With investment grade rates barely keeping pace with inflation, investors started «chasing yield» wherever it might be found... high yield bonds, emerging market debt, world bond funds, bank loan funds, «non-traditional» and «multi-sector» bonds funds, et cetWith investment grade rates barely keeping pace with inflation, investors started «chasing yield» wherever it might be found... high yield bonds, emerging market debt, world bond funds, bank loan funds, «non-traditional» and «multi-sector» bonds funds, et cetwith inflation, investors started «chasing yield» wherever it might be found... high yield bonds, emerging market debt, world bond funds, bank loan funds, «non-traditional» and «multi-sector» bonds funds, et cetera.

Short term funds that hold bonds with maturities from 1 to 3 years are less susceptible to rising yields.

To be clear, the DRS does not generate yield like a traditional bond fund with a monthly distribution.

High yield bond funds take higher risks with the goal of paying higher yields by investing primarily in securities that are either not rated, or have been rated below investment grade by the major ratings agencies — for taxable funds, BB and below.

Like some of its fellow nominees, the team followed up a stellar showing in 2011 with a strong 2012, owing much of the fund's success this year to decisions made amid late 2011's stormy climate, including adding exposure to battered U.S. bank bonds and high - yield.

But, in exchange for a little more risk, you likely can gain a little more yield with a short - term bond fund.

If you compare that to the 2.86 % SEC Yield on Vanguard's Total Bond Market Index Fund — which is a good estimate of its future return — the CD's return is a little lower but comes with more certainty.

Bond funds tantalize you with suggestions of still - higher yields, although in their small print they remind you that «the value of your shares will fluctuate.»

Given the current low interest - rate environment, adding a high - yield allocation to your core bond portfolio or investing in a multisector bond fund may help increase your investment income — just remember that many of these types of funds still come with the potential for significant volatility, particularly during times of heightened economic and / or stock market volatility.

Rather than pursue cross-over corporates or high - yield or even long - term investment grade corporates, we have stayed near the middle of the curve with funds like: (1) SPDR Nuveen Muni (TFI), (2) Vanguard Total Bond (BND), (3) iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury (IEF) and (4) iShares 3 - 7 Year Treasury (IEI).

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in bond yields would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and a few percent of assets in utility shares.

A diversified bond fund that invests at least 70 % of its assets in investment - grade debt with tactical investments in high - yield and non-US dollar bonds.