February 6, 2012

Gross’s Pimco Total Return fund drew $231M in January

The new money ended three straight months of redemptions for Total Return fund: Morningstar

• bonds / fixed income,
• mutual funds,
• Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco)

February 5, 2012

'Superdowngrades' could sink munis

By Jason Kephart

A dramatic increase in the number of “superdowngrades” could wallop the municipal bond market this year, muni experts predict. They believe that the number of such double- or triple-tier declines in credit ratings could jump from the typical one or two per year to dozens ...

• bonds / fixed income,
• Investment Company Institute (ICI),
• municipal bonds,
• treasury bonds

January 27, 2012

No rising rates, no problem: Floating-rate funds still appealing

By Jason Kephart

Steady-rate outlook has investors fleeing, leaving value play for some

• BlackRock Inc.,
• bonds / fixed income,
• Morningstar Inc.

January 25, 2012

DoubleLine's first closed-end fund expected tomorrow

By Jason Kephart

Star manager Jeffrey Gundlach makes his closed-end fund debut on Thursday

• bonds / fixed income

January 18, 2012

The truth about $300B worth of 'Manila' paper

Bearer bonds from alleged Philippines plane crash are little more than wallpaper

• bonds / fixed income,
• fraud

January 15, 2012

All eyes on Pimco's ETF clone

By Jason Kephart

Pimco, whose Total Return Fund is the biggest Kahuna in the mutual fund world, expects to make just as big a splash with the ETF version of the fund. Last week, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC said that on March 1, it expects to launch the highly anticipated ETF version of its ...

• bonds / fixed income,
• E*Trade Financial Corp.,
• exchange traded funds (ETFs),
• Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco)

January 13, 2012

Pimco's Gross says global economy, markets at risk in 2012

Pimco's Gross: U.S. Treasuries look more appealing; Total Return now at 30% U.S. gov't debt

• bonds / fixed income,
• economy / economics,
• Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco),
• treasury bonds

January 11, 2012

Historic dividend yields have this fund manager singing equities' praises

By Jeff Benjamin

Scott Schermerhorn, chief investment officer at Granite Investment Advisors, is so enamored with stock valuations in relation to the strength and direction of dividends that he believes portfolios should be tilted strongly in favor of stocks over bonds.

• bonds / fixed income,
• equities

January 10, 2012

Americans welcome back leverage when credit is cheap enough

By Liz Skinner

Americans are back in the borrowing mood, and even the wealthy are getting in on it when the credit is cheap enough, according to advisers.

• bonds / fixed income,
• wealth management

January 9, 2012

Soros says Europe's debt woes ‘more serious' than 2008 crisis

World faces the prospect of a 'vicious circle' of deflation: Soros

• bonds / fixed income,
• economy / economics