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FYI: For long-term investors only: two intrepid world-bond funds and two emerging-markets bond offerings. Mutual funds that focus on foreign bonds, while not especially large in number or in assets, are an especially eclectic group. Regards, Ted http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=663852
None of these are particularly aggressive. In fact Templeton, Fidelity and Loomis are among the more conservative international bond funds, and Loomis has almost 35% in domestic bonds. PIMCO uses their typical derivative hocus-pocus to reduce volatility.
All of these funds have been pretty tame in reality. STDs are pretty tame, not a lot more than most domestic bond funds.
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All of these funds have been pretty tame in reality. STDs are pretty tame, not a lot more than most domestic bond funds.