“Consider a municipal bond that yields 3.3% compared to a fully taxable corporate bond that yields 4.7%. For bondholders in the 32% and above tax brackets, a muni may yield more after ...
The team calibrates the strategy's duration, or interest-rate sensitivity, to that of its Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index, and the team will use Treasury futures to actively manage duration when it ...
First, they pay more. Even with the 10-year rate up to 1.6% as I write, we can double or triple our dividends with munis. The iShares National Muni Bond ETF (MUB), for example, yields 2.1% ...
MFS South Carolina Municipal Bond Fund earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The largest contributor to the rating is the firm's retention rate of the firm's portfolio managers ...
Governments have sold $446 billion of municipal bonds this year, up about 38% from last year’s pace. “We see the recent rise in rates as an opportunity to put cash to work and increase income ...
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced that CP+, the AI-powered, algorithmic pricing engine for ...