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How to Tell if You’re Getting A Good Muni Bond Price
It’s really quite easy. Remember when you buy a bond you’re really buying a yield, so all you have to do is compare the yield to maturity on one bond to others of the same quality and maturity. When you have done that, simply pick the one with the highest yield to maturity. But once again, be sure you’re comparing bonds of the same quality and maturity, because even a year shorter or longer will make a difference. That’s how the professional buyers at the big institutions compare prices.
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Municipals And The Volume Premium
The volume discount is one of the first and most elementary lessons we learn in business. But in the municipal bond market, you might be surprised to find that just the opposite is true.
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Choosing Your Bond Dealer
There are literally hundreds of brokerage firms, banks, and municipal bond specialist firms you can choose to do business with. How you decide where to do business is important - much too important to leave to chance or to allow convenience to be the deciding factor. As the Forbes article suggests, don’t buy from your stockbroker just because you have an established relationship with them unless they are prepared to do the best job for you. There are much more important factors to help you decide.
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April 20
Why Inflation Isn’t the Danger ..
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April 12
As procrastinating taxpayers scramble to get their 2009 returns finished by the April 15 deadline on Thursday, it’s prime time for high-net-worth investors to look ahead—and take steps ..
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