bond fund

A lot of it is going to the bond fund.

Most of that money has gone into its bond funds.

For that same reason, you would not want to own a bond fund.

To be sure, bond funds over all are doing better this year than they did in 1995.

That may drive some bond funds to do the same.

The money's in a bond fund now - but not for long.

Or so the managers who run Government bond funds seem to think.

Many international bond funds have had a terrific year so far.

The service has been purchased by only about 100 bond funds.

For the last two years, bond funds dominated the list.

Yet bond funds can also be hazardous to your financial health.

For bond funds, it was another good quarter - and a great year.

As interest rates rise, the value of the bond fund will fall.

"And people are more reluctant to move to a 5 or 5.5 percent bond fund."

The next best performance by any bond fund was a mere 35 percent increase.

Well, not always, as mixed results among stock and bond funds show.

But the real story continued to be the rush into bond funds.

It is the first time in a year that investors put more money into bond funds than they took out.

Most individuals who want to own bonds do so through bond funds.

For the last three years, the story among the 46 Treasury bond funds has been interest rates.

That has led to a small exodus from bond funds.

So would just about any other investor who bought a bond fund.

Bond funds, including those that hold corporate issues, are another possibility.

It's not as if money was flooding out of stock and bond funds, either.

And many bond funds have a lot of cash on hand from new investors that has to be put to work.