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The Fidelity Tax-Free Bond Fund aims to provide a high current yield that is exempt from federal income tax. The fund invests at least 80 percent of its assets in investment-grade securities whose ...
The Fidelity Investment Grade Bond Fund is an actively managed fund that seeks to provide a high level of current income. The fund typically invests at least 80 percent of its assets in all types ...
Unlike most of the funds on this list, the Fidelity Total Bond ETF is actively managed. Rather than passively tracking an index, fund managers trade bonds in this ETF in an effort to garner the ...
A municipal bond, commonly known as a muni, is a bond issued by state or local governments, or entities they create such as authorities and special districts. In the United States, interest income received by holders of municipal bonds is often, but not always, exempt from federal and state income taxation.
Many index funds and exchange-traded funds attempt to replicate (before fees and expenses) the performance of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. Some examples of such funds include iShares Core US Aggregate Bond Index (AGG), Thrift Savings Plan (F Fund) Fixed Income Index fund, Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX), and Fidelity U.S ...
Bond funds are typically less risky than stock funds, but they might not grow as much over time. Their stability makes them a great tool to balance out the ups and downs of stock investments. 3.
An important property of bond funds is the rating of the bonds they own. Funds may be rated from high to low credit quality. The quality of a fund is the average of the bonds owned by the fund. Funds that pay higher yields typically own lower quality bonds. Like stocks, the price of high-yield bonds is subject to fashion. [3] [4] For example ...
About half of this ETF's assets are in long-term government bonds, like Treasuries, with the rest in investment-grade corporate bonds. This has the effect of a higher overall yield (about 4.7% ...