Archive for January 31st, 2011

When interest rates rise, or are expected to, stockbrokers urge conservative investors to buy individual bonds. They appear to be safer than bond mutual funds. Just this week, I caught the following headline in an investment publication: “Individual bonds can help protect income.”
That’s 100 percent wrong. Individual bonds deprive you of extra income when interest [...]

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