Interactive Financial Adviser: Strategic Bonds

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In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from Brown Shipley Funds, S&P Capital IQ and TwentyFour Asset Management discussed Strategic Bonds.

Click here to listen to this debate on demand Click here for Interactive Financial Adviser Can Strategic Bond Funds Maintain their performance? In the last year only 3 of the 65 funds in the IMA Strategic Bond sector have lost money, with the best performing portfolios achieving returns of over 20%. Will this trend continue? The best performing funds are those with a bias towards long-dated bonds, while the more broadly based portfolios have still achieved healthy returns. Why have long dated bonds performed so well, will this continue or do investors need to be looking at shorter-...

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