Bond Mutual Funds

Where the Best Places Are for Your One-Stop Shopping

Marvin Appel

You might like the idea of bonds—an investment with predictable returns that are likely to exceed inflation with low risk. But you might be overwhelmed by the hundreds of different individual bonds available to you, or you might not have a broker you trust, or you might not have enough money to buy a diversified portfolio of individual bonds. Don’t despair—bond mutual funds can come to your rescue. By investing in a low-cost bond index fund, you can outperform the majority of bond investors.

Bond Mutual Funds Can Reduce Your Transaction Costs

Mutual funds allow individual investors access to literally hundreds of different bonds with a single purchase. The bond ...

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