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Income trio: Favorite funds for yield

Posted Mar 2nd 2009 5:00PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Mutual Funds, ETF Investing, Housing, Recession

This post is part of a 12-article feature that can be read here: Today's best income ideas.

"Some types of bonds have rarely looked as appealing as they do now compared with other income alternatives," says Philip Springer. In Leeb's Income Performance Letter, the advisor looks at three favorite fixed-income funds -- one invested in mortgages, one in corporates and one in municipal bonds.

"Our top pick among fixed-income funds now is U.S. government-guaranteed, mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issued by government agencies.

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