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US Treasuries Series I Bonds
US Treasury Series I bonds are inflation indexed savings bonds and provide a good alternative for protecting the value of your capital in rising interest rate environments. The Bureau of the Public Debt is the only seller of these bonds so you are unlikely to learn about them through your bank or broker.eries I bonds are issued by the U.S. Treasury at face value and have a maximum duration of 30 years. These bonds can be sold any time after five years without penalty, and between one and five years after purchase with a loss of the most recent three months interest. Series I bonds are now issued in both paper and electronic format. Whereas the Treasury previous limited annual purchases by a single individual to as much as $60,000 per calendar year, new rules limited purchases to $5,000 in each format, for a total of only $10,000 per calendar year. The interest rate on Series I bonds is reset biannually - in each May and November - and is composed of two parts.
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Private Activity and Taxable Municipal Bonds
Taxable and Private Activity Municipal bonds are munis which are not totally tax-exempt.
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Pre-Refunded Municipal Bonds
Pre-refunded municipal bonds offer short-term investors the ability to take advantage of the tax advantages of municipal bonds while gaining higher tax equivalent yields and avoiding some of the risks of downgrade or even default that municipal bonds inherently carry.
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Open-Ended Municipal Bond Funds
Open-ended tax-free money market funds are generally composed of pools of municipal bonds and produce income that is exempt from federal tax, and exempt at the state and local tax levels to residents of the issuing state of the underlying bonds.
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Municipal Bond ETFs
Municipal Bond ETFs offer another way to invest in the muni market besides purchasing the bonds outright or investing in a municipal bond fund.
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Closed-End Municipal Bond Funds
Closed-ended tax-free municipal bonds funds are generally composed of pools of municipal bonds and produce income that is exempt from federal tax, and exempt at the state and local tax levels to residents of the issuing state of the underlying bonds.
Read →Moody's just downgraded the bond rating of several universities, sometimes even to junk bond rating. The poor financial health of a university doesnââ¬â¢t just affect bond investors; students are impacted as well.
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Looking for a Relatively Safe Tax-Free Investment? Consider Zero-Coupon Municipal Bonds.
Zero-coupon municipal bonds are sold at a substantial discount from face value, and the interest is often tax-free.
Read →With government budget deficits and unstable financial conditions, is it still safe to invest in municipal bonds?
Read →A discussion of municipal bonds covering topics such as the IRS audit of the Build America Bond market, the state of the muni market, California's budget update, and the impact of the Regulatory Reform Bill.
Read →Oh, that's a tasty bond they've got sitting there, but behind that tasty bait waits death for unwary investors.
Read →Microsoft just lost some senior staff ahead of some big new moves--does this bode well for the software giant?
Read →Say what you will about Goldman Sachs--and there's plenty to say--but their bonds sure look good.
Read →There's a bit of risk in a Sprint bond, but since their stock just upgraded, why not check out their bonds?
Read →There's plenty of reason to like a Boeing bond, but just as much to dislike it. Cryptic enough? Stay tuned.
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