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Are More Bond Funds Allowing for Equity Allocations?

edited June 2011 in Fund Discussions
Both PIMCO and Loomis Sayles* have recently altered the prospectuses of their flagship bond funds to allow for a higher allocation to equity. Anyone aware of other bond funds that have also recently done this? Just wondering if there's a trend. Thanks.

*Thanks to Maurice for pointing out the LS change: http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/607/loomis-sayles-letter-to-shareholders/p1.

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  • the trend is to launch flexible or allocator (global allocation) funds, which can jump between asset classes and geographic regions.
  • Howdy fundalarm,

    Agree.......and not unlike us; the fund houses continue to attempt to build and manage a fund(s) for all seasons, yes?

    Take care,
    Catch
  • Thanks. I was looking for a trend specifically in regards to core/core plus bond funds; wondering if perhaps Blackrock, Templeton, Fidelity, or others were allowing for increased allocations to stocks. If this was something brewing, the next natural question would be, what does it mean, if anything? Just a curiosity, but not a strong enough one to actually go rummaging through prospectuses (yet, at least!).

    I agree that the trend with every asset class is to "go anywhere", as in anywhere in the world and in any asset space. It appears to all be an off-set of the strong macro fund performance during 2008; the cart leading the horse, if you will...
  • yes, we do.:)
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