municipal bond
The Temporal Characteristic of Closed-end Municipal Bond Fund Discounts/Premiums
... Twenty seven monthly NAV and discount data of twenty seven municipal bond closed-end funds (MBFs) from April 30, 2006 to April 30, 20013 were obtained from Lipper, a Thomson-Reuters Company. Weekly NAV and ...
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The Municipal Bond Market in Italy: an empirical analysis of the determinants of yields and credit ratings
... and municipal bond yields, examining specifically whether the choice of forgoing a bond rating causes an interest cost penalty to the issuer, has been carried out by Allen et ...of municipal ...
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The Life and Premature Death of BABS: A Proposal to Reinstate the Subsidized Taxable Municipal Bond
... the municipal bond market and kept local construction projects going, reducing municipal issuers borrowing costs and broadening the investor base in turn); Michael Decker, Letter to the Editor, BABs ...
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Municipal Bond Monthly Fixed Income Strategy
... Regardless of whether it’s an adverse market reaction, or the lack thereof, both may be viewed positively by investors given the accompanying opportunities. The former would be from a short- term perspective and the ...
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Problems and Thoughts of Issuing Municipal Bond to Fiscal Revenue
... issuing municipal bond possible, many local governments deem it as an important way to get fiscal ...issuing municipal bond along with tax reve- nue, nontax revenue and transfer revenue has ...
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Municipal Bond Tax Exemption Investment Primer
... tax-exempt municipal bonds, whose interest is exempt from federal income taxes and quite often state and local taxes as ...bonds, municipal bond yields may provide investors with a higher return when ...
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Rising Interest Rates and Municipal Bond Performance
... the municipal yield curve shifts lower to reflect a ratio falling towards 80%, the potential gains to municipal bond holders will be substantial, as detailed in Chart ...5.00% municipal ...
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Assessing Factors Influencing Investors’ Preference Towards Municipal Bond in Bangladesh
... Government bond or in other words a municipal bond, preference for investment varies depending on the features of ...term bond, here it needs to be mentioned that as bonds are part of the ...
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Cross-trading and Liquidity Management: Evidence from Municipal Bond Funds
... Cross-trading has been used as a liquidity management tool in the asset manage- ment industry, especially at extreme circumstances. For example, Pimco sold about $18 billion of Pimco Total Return’s assets to other Pimco ...
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Putnam Municipal Bond Funds
... and municipal bonds are represented by the average “yield to worst” — a calculation of the lowest possible yield generated without defaulting — of the Barclays ...Corporate Bond Index, and the Barclays ...
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Impact of Information Asymmetry on Municipal Bond Yields: An Empirical Analysis
... This study analyzes the yield differences between GO and RV bonds issued by city and county governments during 1990-1999. GO bonds finance general expenditures of the municipality and are supported by the full faith and ...
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The Japan Municipal Bond Yield Curve: 2002 to the Present
... Japan’s Municipal Bonds, by examining daily data from 2002 to the ...Japan’s Municipal Bonds, and thereby enabling economists and practitioners to analyze the large municipal bond market of ...
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Total Return Tax-Free Municipal Bond Portfolio Style
... for municipal bond ...of Municipal Bond Investments for Lord Abbett & ...The Bond Buyer, Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, the New York Times, the San Francisco ...
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Political Connections in the Municipal Bond Market: Is There a Pay-to-Stay
... on municipal bond ...better bond ratings. They document that the market prices corruption into bond yields but they find no evidence that underwriters receive higher fees in highly corrupt ...
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The Impact of Government Intervention on Municipal Bond Liquidity Premium: Evidence from China
... issue municipal bonds directly since ...in municipal bond market and led to a distortion of bond price, as well as poor liquidity in secondary ...in municipal bond pricing in ...
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MUNICIPAL BOND FUNDS TAXABLE FUNDS
... BlackRock Municipal Bond Trust (BBK) BlackRock MuniYield California Quality Fund, ...BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (BFK) BlackRock Florida Municipal 2020 Term Trust (BFO) BlackRock ...
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Testimony of Christopher M. Ryon Principal and Senior Municipal Bond Portfolio Manager The Vanguard Group
... U.S. bond market is done primarily over the counter ...the municipal bond market to a greater extent than other segments of the bond ...the municipal bond market has existed in ...
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Municipal Bond Monthly Market Strategy
... tax-exempt municipal bonds remains ...the municipal asset class) was unlikely to transpire during a mid-term election year, coupled with 4) the painful reality of the 2013 year’s tax levy, which highlighted ...
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Municipal Bond Monthly Market Strategy
... sell municipal securities to help pay annual income ...mild-to-moderate municipal bond mutual fund outflows after such flows had remained solidly positive throughout 2015 (please see chart on page ...
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Live and Let Die: Peeling Back on Municipal Bond Regulation After the 2008 Financial Crisis
... which municipal bonds are lumped together, municipal bonds are treated ...in municipal bankruptcies, municipal bonds remain a relatively safe asset ...existing municipal bond ...
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