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• Playing Defense on Bonds

  By Ronald L. Delegge  |  April 29, 2013

  The recent bull market in bond prices has been called the biggest bond bubble in history. Thanks to a combination of stock-averse investors and multi-billion dollar purchases of U.S. Treasuries by the Federal Reserve, higher bond prices have fueled the boom. But what happens when the trend reverses? How can...

• Stats Show Bond Fund Shift

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 26, 2012

  Since the 2008 financial crisis, the intermediate-term bond category has grown from less than $500 billion in assets to nearly $930 billion.

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  Bond Funds & Decoupling

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 9, 2012

  Fewer than 12% of funds in the intermediate-term bond category managed to match or beat the return of its benchmark, Morningstar reports

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  At Morningstar Advisor Conference, Rapid Fire Round Table on Macro-Economic Issues

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  June 9, 2011

  Don Phillips, Scott Burns, Russ Kinnel tackle large items in short amount of time.

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  PIMCO's Gross Reduces Government Related Investments

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 12, 2011

  PIMCO's $236 billion Total Return Fund reduced its share of U.S. government debt to minus 3% in March, while increasing its cash and cash equivalents to 31%, its highest percentage in four years.

• PIMCO's Gross Eliminates Treasuries Exposure

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  March 10, 2011

  Don't believe everything you hear, especially if what you've heard is that PIMCO's Bill Gross has wiped the PIMCO Total Return Bond Fund of Treasuries.

• Retirement Plan Advisor, August 2009: Stable Value as QDIA Up for Debate Again

  By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne, Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2010

  Now that the retirement finance dialogue has once again shifted to the need for Americans to put their money into secure investment vehicles, stable value funds are on the menu.

• Eaton Vance, Hawkes Have Strong Fiscal '06

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2007

  Eaton Vance Chairman and CEO James Hawkes, 65, could have quite a stellar pre-retirement fiscal year in 2007, judging from the Boston-based fund company's recent...