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Bond math is about to inflict some real pain on fixed-income investors

Breakfast with Benjamin: Fixed-income investors are starting to feel the painful realities of bond math.

  • Fixed-income investors are starting to feel the painful realities of bond math. For most financial advisers, this will be difficult to navigate, and even harder to explain to clients.‘It’s setting up to be a season of discontent’
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  • Pennsylvania-based financial adviser is charged by the SEC with defrauding clients of $3 million used to buy a Florida condo and finance some vacations. Not cool, dude. Malcolm Segal of Aegis Capital Corp.
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