Vanguard Inflation-Protected Secs Inv 14.36 0.08 0.56 913.80 13,122.14 0.17 11-15-11 Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt 11.54 0.00 0.00 1,059.99 12,232.28 0.15 11-15-11 Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Inv
OK.......Why the sudden sell off in MBF's? Retirement assets/positions for 72yr old disabled vet: FLTMX - 17% VWITX - 17% FTABX - 33% VWLTX - 33% Objective: Capital preservation with tax free yield. Answers/recommendations?
your asset class it is? What is your take on that question? Sjoblom : Absolutely. Let's just take Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt as a sort of bellwether-for-the-market type of fund. Last year, it gained 10.7%, and the total
yeh!) in garden variety Vanguard muni funds have been: Short-term VMLTX 4.34% Intermediate VWITX 12.94% Long-term VWLTX 15.73% Leveraged muni CEFs did far better, typcially exceeding 20.00%. As I noted here in late-2010 - even before
though. Franklin Federal Tax-Free and Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt are both excellent choices, and any of ..... Franklin Federal Tax-Free Income FKTIX Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt VWLTX Franklin High Yield Tax-Free FRHIX T
portfolio is well diversified.Seasoned management. Mathew Kiselak took the helm at this fund and at Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt VWLTX in July 2010 after managing muni-bond funds at Evergreen for about a decade. Chris Alwine, head of
attempts to add value by making modest duration and yield curve shifts, and small rotations among sectors. Vanguard Long - Term Tax Exempt 's short leash gives it a long-term edge. After running this long-term muni-bond fund for a little
this money is in taxable accounts, so I will be redirecting funds into tax free vanguard accounts (VMLTX, VITWX, VWEHX, VWLTX ). The tax deferred accounts include VWAHX, VIPSX, VBIIX, VBISX, PTTRX, and similar type short to intermediate bond funds
Fidelity are the best fund families in this neighborhood. I'd go with Fidelity Tax-Free Bond FTABX, Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt VWLTX , or a single-state muni fund from one of those families if they have one for your state. I'd also
fixed - income teams have been gradual . For instance , Chris Alwine recently took over for Reid Smith at Vanguard Long - Term Tax - Exempt VWLTX after working with the municipal - bond team for years . After arriving at Vanguard in the 1990s , Greg