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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 Bonds And The Alternative Minimum Tax
Municipal Bonds are known to be tax advanaged vehicles for investing money, but that tax advantage sometimes does not extend to individuals subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
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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.
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How to Buy New Municipal Bond Issues
Investors who want to buy new issues of municipal bonds can do so through a process called the Retail Order Period. In the Retail Order Period, municipalities set aside a portion of their bond offering for retail consumers and... Read →Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico have a vast amount of oil. Alaska has a few drops left as well. But on the left half of the world, oil has been known, explored and produced for years in some places and yet recently found in other places.
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Read →Are you getting ready to apply for a mortgage? Here are three common mistakes that you should avoid.
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