An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation- Indexed Government Bonds

Some affluent investors use municipal bond funds as a source of tax-exempt interest income. Because municipal bond funds tend to have lower before-tax interest yields than those on taxable bonds, this investment is usually appropriate only for people in high tax brackets. Finally, investors may use short-term, high-quality bond funds as an alternative to money market funds.While this strategy can provide higher returns, it does entail the risk that the investor could lose some principal because of fluctuating bond prices....