bond funds
Fixed-income pooled assets
Bond funds are mutual funds or ETFs that invest in bonds—debt securities issued by governments, corporations, or municipalities.
They offer investors diversified exposure to fixed-income markets without buying individual bonds: She shifted her retirement savings into bond funds as she approached sixty.
Bond funds vary by risk level, from conservative government bond funds to higher-yielding but riskier corporate or junk bond funds.
- corporate bondsDebt issued by businesses
- investment gradeCreditworthy debt classification
- government bondsState-issued debt securities
- mutual fundsCollectively managed securities portfolios
- municipal bondsLocal government debt securities
credit risk · income generation · duration · capital preservation · diversification · credit ratings · interest rates · coupon · total return · tax efficiency · inflation trends · treasury bonds · monetary policy · interest rate risk · economic cycles · yield · yield curve · portfolio
- bondscorporate bonds, municipal bonds, treasury bonds, savings bonds, junk bonds
- investmentsbonds, stocks, securities, investment, equities
- Mutual Fundsmutual funds, equity funds, index funds, balanced funds, growth funds
- securitiessecurities, shares, equities, bonds, stocks
- investment fundsmutual funds, hedge funds, index funds, equity funds, pension funds
- bond termsyield, accrued interest, debentures, junk bonds
bond fundsstock funds
Pooled share investments
equity funds · growth funds · REITs · equity investments · hedge funds
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Available courses of action
derivatives · penny stocks · cryptocurrency · junk bonds · futures