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November 07, 2008

The Informed Investor Newsletter

In This Issue

Engine Failure Takeoff Continued
The Muni Opportunity: Fact or Fiction?
Treasury Bonds, Safe is a Relative Concept

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Engine Failure Takeoff Continued

by Frank Armstrong, III, CFP®, AIFA®

Many of you know that in a previous life I was an Air Force Pilot flying KC-135A Air Refueling Tankers. We all sometimes referred to the KC-135A as the world’s fastest tricycle because it was woefully underpowered and an 11,000 foot take off roll was standard. Years after it occurred, a friend of mine told me the following story about himself on one of his first missions as a brand new co-pilot. I’m sharing it with you now because the incident has important lessons for investors as well.

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The Muni Opportunity: Fact or Fiction?

Robert web.jpg by Robert Gordon, CFP®, MBA, AIF®

The media is heralding the relatively attractive yields available today in the municipal bond arena. This is measured by comparing the yield offered on the highest quality municipal bonds against the yields offered by U.S. Treasury securities of similar maturities. Normally, municipal bonds (“munis”) have lower yields than Treasuries. However, today, munis sport significantly higher yields and that yield advantage increases if you take into account the tax exemption. A number of factors explain this historical anomaly and suggest that investors should be wary of calls to “load up” in any single asset class or security.

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Treasury Bonds, Safe is a Relative Concept

by Jason Whitby, CFA, CFP® , AIF®

October 2008 may well be remembered as the month of the Treasury. Remembered as the month when Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. stole the show from the Fed’s Ben Bernanke. The month when investing in US Treasuries seemed to be the only safe place to run. “IS YOUR MONEY SAFE?” was the media sound bite and the only thing safe enough was the “full faith and credit of the US Government.” The possibility of even the mighty FDIC going kaput gave nightmares of bank runs and CD defaults. So how safe exactly is investing in treasuries? That answer depends on your definition of safe and which type of treasury you buy. As this article will show, there have been times when certain treasury investments have produced significant negative returns.

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