{"id":4980,"date":"2006-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"funds-of-funds-offer-yield-and-diversification-but-watch-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2006\/funds-of-funds-offer-yield-and-diversification-but-watch-fees.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Funds of funds&#8217; offer yield and diversification, but watch fees.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Mutual funds billed as one-stop shops for yield-hungry investors searching stock and bond markets for income are on the rise. Called &#8220;funds of funds,&#8221; they don&#8217;t hold  individual securities but instead own several other strategically selected funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p\">  These income-focused funds of funds invest in diverse sectors such as high-yield bonds, U.S. government-backed mortgage securities, U.S. Treasury bonds, real estate investment trusts, dividend-rich  U.S. large-cap stocks and even emerging-markets bonds. Some also make &#8220;tactical&#8221; changes to their holdings, varying the percentage of the fund&#8217;s assets to specific investments as the fund managers  see fit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<div class=\"p\">  The income-building funds can seem a solid choice, especially for retirees and conservative investors who want most of their money in bonds, with a bit of stocks&#8217; growth potential as a sweetener.  Many fund companies promote their income funds of funds as a straightforward solution for both retirees and baby boomers facing retirement.<\/div>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/8-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/News\/Story\/Story.aspx%3Fdist%3Dnewsfinder%26siteid%3Dgoogle%26guid%3D%257BB0CFA0CC-14F5-40EC-9730-B06E98019D06%257D%26keyword%3D&amp;cid=1109219247&amp;ei=IsX-RM_UDoP2owKyq43OBw\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Mutual funds billed as one-stop shops for yield-hungry investors searching stock and bond markets for income are on the rise. Called &#8220;funds of funds,&#8221; they don&#8217;t hold individual securities but instead own several other strategically selected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}