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To add a further complication, many of these funds are leveraged: They borrow money at short-term rates to buy long-term bonds. So if the Fed resumes cutting rates any time soon the funds would get a ...

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A perfect storm of falling bond prices, higher leverage costs, investor capitulation and tax-loss harvesting at the end of 2024 have left many of these funds now trading at deep discounts to their ...

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The Vanguard Group differs greatly from most other asset managers and mutual fund companies. Vanguard is organized as a mutual company, meaning the firm is ultimately owned by the shareholders ...

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Because these bonds don't pay interest, they are usually sold for a deep discount to their face value. Bond funds take money from many different investors and pool it for a fund manager to handle.

CEF discounts/premiums, due to their structure, allow for potential opportunities to capitalize on mean reversion. Read our analysis of SPE and PFO here.

He wrote, "There is a school of thought aggressively pushed that a Real Estate Investment Deal can't beat bonds. I say ... Before diving into the deep end, I had to start with the basics.