The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes of the Sept 21st 2010 meeting are worth reading. Below are some bullet points: roughly $28 billion principal payments were reinvested into Treasuries with maturities between 2-10 years. Mostly nominal, but a little into TIPS continuing to operate the reverse repo and term deposit facilities on a light [...]

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Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Bob Brinker

The October 2010 edition of the Brinker Fixed Income Advisor is now available online for subscriber access. For the 1-Year period through 9/30/2010, our Model Portfolios have returned: Aggressive Portfolio: + 12.5% Moderate Portfolio: + 10.1% Conservative Portfolio: + 9.4% Tax-Exempt Portfolio: + 5.1%  **tax-exempt return

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Posted on October 1st, 2010 by Bob Brinker