Thank you for standing by ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Excel Maritime Conference Call on the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results. We have with us Mr. Pavlos Kanellopoulos, Chief Financial Officer; and Ms. Ismini Panayotides,
Morningstar's Christine Benz outlines the broad investment types most suitable for individual retirement accounts, as well as some of our favorite names.
While duration exposure remains troublesome, large-scale bank deleveraging in the last year has credit markets looking ripe for investment, says Driehaus' K.C. Nelson.
Morningstar analyst Mallory Horejs says the current environment is right for investors to consider devoting a small slice of their bond portfolios to alternatives such as these three funds.