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2013: Best Start Ever for Mutual Funds, Target Date Funds
Financial Planning News
Wed, 13 Mar 2013
The first two months of 2013 marked net flows of $140 billion into stock and bond funds, the best start for the mutual fund industry on record, according to Strategic Insight.
Bond - fund investors need to focus on duration, credit quality, and relative yields to better understand how much risk they're taking on, says Morningstar's Eric Jacobson.
Morningstar's vice president of research weighs in on PIMCO's target-date allure, active management in bonds versus stocks, and echoes in the buy and hold debate.