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Sun Herald: Investing for Income
AFR Investor, Sun Herald and Sunday Age
There’s nothing like a stock market collapse to remind people how useful bonds can be. Investors with a decent allocation to defensive investments such as bond funds enjoyed a buffer from the financial crisis, and while it may have seemed a drag during the market rebound of the last nine months, that’s more than compensated for by the insulation it provided on the way down.
Terms like ‘income’ or ‘defensive’ cover a multitude of different products, styles and ideas. They go from tedious plodding cash and bond funds through mortgage funds to high-risk, high-reward credit products and even into high yielding stocks. The boxes on this page talk about the different types of products available and how to tell them apart. Continue…
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