<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Government National Mortgage Association: News &amp; Videos about Government National Mortgage Association - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Government_National_Mortgage_Association</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Government National Mortgage Association from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:20:57 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Government National Mortgage Association: News &amp; Videos about Government National Mortgage Association - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Government_National_Mortgage_Association</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Government National Mortgage Association from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>If Colonial fails, mortgages get more scarce</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/colonial_bank_fallout/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/colonial_bank_fallout/index.htm</guid><description>The potential collapse of Colonial BancGroup poses another hazard to the still-shaky housing market: Mortgages could become even harder to get.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>1st time ever: 10-year yield is below 3%</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/26/markets/bondcenter/bonds/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/26/markets/bondcenter/bonds/index.htm</guid><description>Demand for U.S. Treasury bonds surged Wednesday, lowering the yield on the benchmark note to an all-time low, as investors responded to grim economic data and falling mortgage rates.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>If your mortgage lender goes under...</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/08/pf/saving/toptips/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/08/pf/saving/toptips/index.htm</guid><description>American Home Mortgage filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Mortgage banking company Homebanc announced it will shutter its doors. Other mortgage lenders are also sending out distress signals. Here's what you need to know if your mortgage lender goes out of business.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gerri's Top Tips: If your lender goes under</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homestyle/08/08/lenders/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homestyle/08/08/lenders/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>American Home Mortgage filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. And mortgage banking company Homebanc announced it will shutter its doors. Other mortgage lenders are also sending out distress signals. </description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When your lender goes out of business</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/01/pf/saving/toptips/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/01/pf/saving/toptips/index.htm</guid><description>A number of subprime mortgage lending companies are taking a hit to their profits or facing bankruptcy. Here's what you need to know if your mortgage lender goes out of business.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sniffing Out High Yields (The Safe Kind)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/05/01/8257873/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/05/01/8257873/index.htm</guid><description>If this is a time in your investing life when you're focusing less on the growth of your portfolio and more on the stream of cash you can draw from it, you're facing a real challenge. Years of dema...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Income investing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/pf/income_0505/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/pf/income_0505/index.htm</guid><description>If this is a time in your investing life when you're focusing less on the growth of your portfolio and more on the stream of cash you can draw from it, you're facing a real challenge.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fannie knew of Ginnie fraud probe</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/19/news/fortune500/fannie_ginnie.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/19/news/fortune500/fannie_ginnie.dj/index.htm</guid><description>WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Fannie Mae (FNM) officials were warned in late 1998 that a Fannie-approved lender the company suspected of fraud was trying to pass off problematic loans to Ginnie Mae, according to a letter the company recently sent to House lawmakers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Deflation Is Still A Threat So says former             Singaporean central banker Michael Cheah, who runs             SunAmerica</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/09/01/348630/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/09/01/348630/index.htm</guid><description>Ask the typical Wall Street savant about Japan's decade-long  battle with deflation, and he'll argue that it can't occur here. Our central bankers at the Federal Reserve are too vigilant and our ba...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Update Eking out gains over the past 12 months was tough, but two of our pros pulled it off.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/10/01/328676/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/10/01/328676/index.htm</guid><description>Even the leading lights of the investing world couldn't beat back a brutal bear market. Still, half of last year's Ultimate Investment Club bested the S&amp;amp;P 500, and only two suggested portfolios of ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Tide Turns For Ginnie Maes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268167/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/11/01/268167/index.htm</guid><description>It's been a tough 12 months for Ginnie Maes and Ginnie Mae funds. Like most bonds, the government-backed mortgage securities were hit hard by the Russian economy's collapse last year as investors h...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>D.C. Tag Sale How to make Washington work: Privatize, privatize, privatize.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/03/01/256232/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/03/01/256232/index.htm</guid><description>With all the lurid tales coming out of Washington, D.C. these days, a bit of good news got scant attention earlier this year: The Clinton Administration is reportedly considering raising $2.5 billi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Best Mutual Funds For A Volatile Future With last             summer's squalls fresh in mind, now's the time to check the   </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/21/252702/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/21/252702/index.htm</guid><description>To anyone who lives in or sails the Caribbean, hurricane season is an annual reminder that paradise is not a permanent state. The recent low-pressure system on Wall Street (Hurricane Boris, was it?...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Discover The Beauty Of Bonds Funds that buy corporates and gnmas offer safety and attractive yields.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/12/01/251940/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/12/01/251940/index.htm</guid><description>Over the past three months of stock market turmoil, investors have rediscovered the benefits of bonds. Fleeing one global crisis after another, they have flocked to ultrasafe Treasuries, pushing up...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EARN UP TO 31%--WITHOUT INVESTING IN STOCKS YOU MAY THINK BONDS ARE STRICTLY FOR LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE. BUT WE'VE DISCOVERED FOU</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/09/01/230970/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/09/01/230970/index.htm</guid><description>After 18 years of marriage, Connie and Kel Saito still have their differences, even when they try to relax by playing mixed doubles on a tennis court near their San Jose home. "We'll have arguments...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GO WITH BONDS OVER STOCKS IN '97</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/05/01/225687/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/05/01/225687/index.htm</guid><description>For a man generally regarded as the top bond fund manager of his generation, Bill Gross, 53, chooses a rather unflattering metaphor to describe fixed-income buyers. "Bond investors are the vampires...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SAFE INCOME INVESTMENTS THAT CAN RETURN 20% OR MORE             LOW-RISK BONDS AND INTEREST-RATE-SENSITIVE STOCKS OFFER THE     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/09/01/216108/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/09/01/216108/index.htm</guid><description>For dazed stock investors, it's been an unusually rollicking ride on the stock market roller coaster lately. After rising 9.3% in the first five months of the year, Standard &amp;amp; Poor's 500-stock inde...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A CLEVER STRATEGY FOR BONDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215460/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/08/05/215460/index.htm</guid><description>If you're feeling roughed up by bonds lately, it's no surprise. Not only have interest rates been inching higher, but the Friday after Independence Day saw bond prices take their fourth-biggest per...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FIVE GREAT WAYS TO PICK SHARES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/06/12/203822/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/06/12/203822/index.htm</guid><description>One expert tells you to buy shares with low price-to-earnings ratios. Another swears by companies with high earnings growth. Still others tout high yields, or price momentum, or low price-to-book r...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>RATING THE 25 BIGGEST FUNDS MONEY's verdict on the mightiest mutual funds: Buy Fidelity Magellan; hold Washington Mutual; sell D</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/11/01/89257/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/11/01/89257/index.htm</guid><description>THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY SURE MUST BE EATING its Wheaties. Assets in stock and bond funds grew from a comparatively scrawny $137 billion spread among 820 funds a decade ago to a strapping $1.55 tri...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Earn 7% or More Safely</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/09/01/89103/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/09/01/89103/index.htm</guid><description>With borrowing costs rising and securities markets roiling, it is easy to forget that there's a bright side to rising interest rates -- namely, higher yields on savings and income investments. Toda...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FLEXIBLE FUNDS ADD MUSCLE TO YOUR INCOME</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/07/26/78138/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/07/26/78138/index.htm</guid><description>The quest for income in today's low-yield economy is beginning to resemble the search for intelligent life in the universe: Believers know it's out there but aren't sure where. Meanwhile, back on e...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>YOUR BEST BUYS IN BOND FUNDS TODAY Sure, they're hot             sellers. But sometimes the crowd can be wrong. We'll show      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/05/07/88051/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/05/07/88051/index.htm</guid><description>If popularity were the same as profitability, bond funds would surely be the best investment since the Yankees bought Babe Ruth from the Red Sox for $100,000 in 1920. The funds already hold more th...</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GUNNING FOR DOUBLE-DIGIT GAINS To pick tomorrow's             winners today, you've got to understand the elements of style.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/05/07/88059/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/05/07/88059/index.htm</guid><description>Here's an investing fable: Imagine that you're about to mail a check to your money-market fund, when a genie suddenly appears. In a voice that sounds remarkably like Robin Williams' (hey, it's just...</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>IT'S TIME TO BE BOLD WITH BONDS Gone is the cozy             hiding place of short-term Treasuries. For decent returns,         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/26/77056/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/26/77056/index.htm</guid><description>IN A YEAR when short-term interest rates fell like a safe dropped from a tenth-story window, who can blame the fixed-income investor for feeling crushed? 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Defying a stock implosion in Tokyo and creeping interest rates at home, it seems to reach effortlessly skyward. But a closer look reveals some straining. While the Dow has ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY GINNIE MAES MAY BE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/01/01/87070/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/01/01/87070/index.htm</guid><description>Fed up with puny yields on bank accounts and money-market funds, savers have lately been shoveling dough into Ginnie Mae funds at a rate of $100 million a day. And why not? Call a Ginnie fund spons...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ADJUSTABLE-RATE MORTGAGE FUNDS ARE YIELD BOOSTERS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/11/18/75773/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/11/18/75773/index.htm</guid><description>Investors now have the right to bear ARMs. Not those that fire, those that yield. Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) have recently become an investment vehicle widely available to small investors thr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>DON'T GET BURNED BY TODAY'S HOTTEST INCOME INVESTMENT</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/11/01/86909/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/11/01/86909/index.htm</guid><description>Although their name, collateralized mortgage obligations, tends to make your eyes glaze over, the securities' high yields make them the hottest new income investment since the money fund. After all...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE HUNT IS ON FOR RICH BOND YIELDS Beware the             temptation of long maturities. One smart bet: intermediate Treasuries</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75673/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75673/index.htm</guid><description>WHERE, oh, where, have the bond yields gone? Three-month Treasury bills pay only 5.09%, and even 30-year T-bonds now deliver less than 8%. Heck, two-year notes were recently priced to yield about 6...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO BUY A BOND FUND </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75663/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75663/index.htm</guid><description>Bond funds are pulling in the money -- $68 billion of new cash this year -- as investors try to beat the interest rates on money funds, which are at a five- year low of 5.21%. If your dollars are p...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE 'WHAT IFS' OF THE GOLDEN YEARS Your biggest             nightmare: nursing home bills that melt a retiree's wealth          </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75654/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75654/index.htm</guid><description>AT LAST you have time to improve your handicap and tarry at favorite vacation spots. But retirement is no mere lark. Like a pioneer setting off in a Conestoga wagon with limited provisions, you mus...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFITS The investment markets             of the Nineties won't offer the bonanza the Eighties did.       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75670/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/28/75670/index.htm</guid><description>SOPHIE TUCKER, that grand old vaudevillian, once observed: ''I've been rich, and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.'' For investors today, not only is rich better -- it's almost a necessit...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>PORTFOLIO TALK THE SMART WAY TO FIND HIGH YIELDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75624/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75624/index.htm</guid><description>Who says that bond investors don't care about growth? During ten years as head of fixed-income funds at the Vanguard Group in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Ian MacKinnon helped the company's bond fun...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BEST MUTUAL FUNDS TO BUY NOW What spiraled up in the first half of '91 might spin down in the second.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86707/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86707/index.htm</guid><description>Guts led to glory in the first half of 1991 -- and not just in the Persian Gulf. Taking risks paid off big for armies of mutual fund investors as well. For starters, the average equity fund handily...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FLASH . . . The savings market is paying the lowest rates on your cash in years. Here's how to . . . BEAT PUNY MONEY FUND YIELDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86719/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/08/01/86719/index.htm</guid><description>Remember the good ol' days of 1989? Of course you do. Who could forget that a little over two years ago the average money-market mutual fund yielded a robust 9.2%? Savers then could hardly go wrong...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE MONEY SMALL INVESTOR INDEX SMALL INVESTORS GO FROM MONEY FUNDS TO BONDS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/06/01/86612/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/06/01/86612/index.htm</guid><description>With money-market fund yields down from 7.6% on Jan. 1 to 5.9% in early May, small investors pulled $6.5 billion out of their accounts last month and reinvested most of it in bond funds and the res...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SMART MOVES </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/04/01/86456/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/04/01/86456/index.htm</guid><description>-- Act quickly if you want to take advantage of today's low-interest-rate mortgages and home-equity loans. Adjustable-rate mortgages, for example, are available at initial rates of 7% or less from ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>10 INVESTING MYTHS These maxims could lead to a comedy of financial errors -- and leave you as well-off as the Little Tramp.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/01/01/86306/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/01/01/86306/index.htm</guid><description>Investing has always been fertile ground for dubious generalizations. Let a stock-market bore corner you at a party, and you will inevitably get an earful of maxims and truisms. Some of these are o...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE HIGH-YIELDING ALTERNATIVE TO TREASURY BONDS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/11/19/74374/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/11/19/74374/index.htm</guid><description>Worried by the slumping stock market, the sluggish economy, and rising bank failures? Hankering for the super safety of U.S. Treasury bonds? Don't buy just yet. There is a better haven for your cas...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>IT'S TIME TO BE CAUTIOUS WITH BONDS AS INTEREST RATES             BOB, STAY WITH QUALITY AND MEDIUM MATURITIES.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74275/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74275/index.htm</guid><description>BONDS HAVE FARED better than stocks this year, but that isn't saying much. Total return has generally amounted to only a few percentage points, while prices have behaved like a yo-yo. Early in the ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MORTGAGES: MAKING IT EASIER FOR YOU TO AFFORD A HOUSE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/04/01/85783/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/04/01/85783/index.htm</guid><description>The Federal National Mortgage Association got a lot of attention last month when it announced that it would buy rollover mortgages -- fixed-rate loans that run for seven years with an option to ren...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 1990 05:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT GINNIE MAES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/03/01/85698/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/03/01/85698/index.htm</guid><description>( Investors seeking decent returns with moderate risk might look at Ginnie Maes -- mortgage-backed securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association. Last summer, the Ginnie Mae mar...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO FIND GEMS IN A ROUGH BOND MARKET</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/01/01/72943/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/01/01/72943/index.htm</guid><description>Bond experts are always at odds over the future direction of interest rates, but lately their bickering has reached a heated pitch. Economic growth is slowing, so some insist that interest rates wi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Market Update SMALL INVESTORS ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORST</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/01/01/85588/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/01/01/85588/index.htm</guid><description>With the economy showing more signs of weakness, such as October's 0.4% drop in the index of leading indicators and November's tenth-of-a-point rise in unemployment, small investors have been shift...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MORTGAGES: AMAZE YOUR BANKER! LEARN TO PREDICT RATES!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/12/01/85553/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/12/01/85553/index.htm</guid><description>When you apply for a home loan nowadays, more and more banks and S&amp;amp;Ls let you decide whether you will pay their current mortgage rate or a future one. The future rate might be the one prevailing wh...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>This Just In </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/01/85450/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/01/85450/index.htm</guid><description>If you belong to a credit union, you may soon find it harder to get a mortgage there. The National Credit Union Administration, a federal regulator, is expected to issue cautionary guidelines that ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>LONG-TERM BONDS ARE TOO RISKY NOW They'll take a beating if interest rates rise, and short-term securities pay just as much.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/30/72675/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/30/72675/index.htm</guid><description>So far it's been a banner year for bonds. Over the nine months ended in September, long-term Treasuries racked up a 14.6% total return, counting price appreciation and interest. Don't expect those ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A TIME BOMB FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS The government guarantees millions of mortgages, bonds, deposits, and student loans. These liabil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/23/72608/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/23/72608/index.htm</guid><description>TIRED OF worrying about America's budget deficit? Now you can start worrying about the vast sums that are not on the budget. Uncle Sam's off-budget guarantees will climb from $2.1 trillion in 1980 ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW THAT INTEREST RATES ARE DOWN, WHAT'S UP WITH FIXED-INCOME FUNDS?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85334/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/09/01/85334/index.htm</guid><description>Bond fund investing keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Remember 1989's first quarter, when interest rates rose sharply and many fixed-income fundholders saw their yield income all but wiped out...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PUTTING TOGETHER A PORTFOLIO WITH A 10% YIELD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/07/01/85255/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/07/01/85255/index.htm</guid><description>Recent signs that the economy is slowing have sparked rallies in both stocks and bonds as investors anticipate that the Federal Reserve will let interest rates decline. This trend toward lower rate...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DESPITE THOSE POST-CRASH HIGHS, BE WARY OF THE STOCK MARKET Too many factors are working against it, says FORTUNE's quarterly in</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/22/72014/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/22/72014/index.htm</guid><description>Who would have guessed? Here we are facing renewed inflation, high interest rates, and recession worries, yet the stock market blossoms as if bad news were its favorite fertilizer. The rousing spri...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Just How Safe Is That Guaranteed Investment? If your strategy for safety is to let an investing guarantee be your umbrella, trea</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/03/01/84990/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/03/01/84990/index.htm</guid><description>. Desperate to recoup flagging commissions, brokerage firms and sponsors of investment products are resorting to a new marketing gimmick to lure chary buyers into risky investments with high fees. ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>1988: THE YEAR THE SUN CAME OUT AGAIN -- BUT TOO FEW NOTICED</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/02/01/84952/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/02/01/84952/index.htm</guid><description>For mutual fund shareholders, 1988 started two months early -- on Oct. 19, 1987, the day the bulls ran into a brick wall. Since that day, the dominant mood of fund investors has been gloom, and not...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>INCOME The Safe, Straight and Narrow Route Your best bets include municipal bonds, Ginnie Maes, intermediate-term Treasuries and</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/12/01/84843/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/12/01/84843/index.htm</guid><description>The year ahead looks ideal for conservatives -- including conservative investors. A variety of safe, income-producing securities now virtually assures a 2% to 3% annual return in 1989 after taxes a...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BONDS LOOK TEMPTING NOW, EVEN THOUGH RATES MAY RISE SOME MORE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70957/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70957/index.htm</guid><description>When Wall Streeters said things were heating up this summer, they weren't necessarily talking about the weather. With torrid action in commodity prices fueling inflation fears, interest rates have ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A SUPERBROKER WHO WATCHES YOUR NEST EGG FOR YOU</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/06/01/84516/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/06/01/84516/index.htm</guid><description>Trapeze artists and retirees have this in common: proper planning can mean everything when it comes time to let go. But retirees face the more frightening prospect. They must execute their daring t...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DON'T BE ALARMED BY SLOW GROWTH Homebuilding will pick up a bit this spring, and the improving trade balance will supply long-te</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/11/70413/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/11/70413/index.htm</guid><description>LIKE a preternatural spring day, the March figures on the economy's performance sent many analysts off into warm reveries. But the putative strengths look good only in comparison with the gloomy ex...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT'S THE BEST SALES PITCH FOR MY 1924 YANKEES BASEBALL?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/01/84422/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/04/01/84422/index.htm</guid><description>GINNIE MAES -- Q. Five years ago, I bought a Prudential-Bache Ginnie Mae Series I and have been receiving returns on both principal and interest. When I recently called Pru-Bache to ask how much my...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Realistic Solutions for Real People Our advisers suggest how retirees can boost their income, a bachelor can get aggressive and </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/12/01/84220/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/12/01/84220/index.htm</guid><description>''We need more stable income.'' </description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NEWS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR MONEY Fed up with GNMAs? Check out CMOs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/09/01/84046/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/09/01/84046/index.htm</guid><description>In spite of the chastening recent history of Ginnie Maes, income-oriented investors are being touted onto a newer, assertedly more predictable form of mortgage-backed security that is called a coll...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BARGAINS IN BATTERED BONDS After the recent tempests in the financial markets, many debt issues look invitingly cheap.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/25/69046/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/25/69046/index.htm</guid><description>A cruel spring it has been for bondholders. No sooner had they finished counting their hefty profits from 1986 -- with total returns exceeding 20% in many instances -- than a quick April sell-off s...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Pick the Next Fund Hits A raging bull? Yes, indeed. But it is also long in the hoof. Which means that new strategies are </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83855/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83855/index.htm</guid><description>The Dow has been turning out records faster than RCA this year. Indeed, it has crossed five century marks and set 33 all-time highs in little over three months. Its first-quarter rise of 21.4% was ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE EXCLUSIVE MONEY RANKINGS ''The first quarter of 1987,'' says fund watcher Michael Lipper, ''was a hell of a year.''</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83835/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/05/01/83835/index.htm</guid><description>The beat goes on. Mutual funds are hotter than a U-2 concert in July. Highlights from 1987's historic first quarter: -- The average diversified equity fund went gold, posting a 19.2% total return. ...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>It was a boffo year for the business, but where are the customers' yachts?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/02/01/83712/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/02/01/83712/index.htm</guid><description>Last year, as the bull market aged, the party raged and fund operators could barely conjure up new products fast enough to handle the influx of bucks. According to estimates by the Investment Compa...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A better-behaved GNMA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/01/01/83670/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/01/01/83670/index.htm</guid><description>One of the hottest income investments of the new year will be the REMIC (real estate mortgage investment conduit). Rated AAA and backed by the federal government, it will yield as much as 2 1/2 per...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>INVESTING '87 How to Hold a Bond Fund's Feet to the Fire By getting answers to a few simple questions you can earn grade-A profi</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/01/01/83639/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/01/01/83639/index.htm</guid><description>For most small investors, mutual funds are the only practical way to tap the rich and diverse vein of corporate, government and municipal bonds. To buy individual bonds, you should plan on dividing...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>INVESTING WHERE TO PUT YOUR CASH NOW Interest rates are lower than they have been for nine years. But believe it or not, real re</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/12/01/83599/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/12/01/83599/index.htm</guid><description>Yearning for the good old days of 1981 when you could earn 15% and up on cash certificates of deposit and bank money-market funds? In a sense, those days are still with us. You can safely earn real...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GOING FOR HIGH YIELDS WITH A BIT MORE RISK Double-digit interest rates are no longer to be had worry-free. Still, investors who </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68345/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/24/68345/index.htm</guid><description>THE GOOD NEWS is that your investment has doubled. Back in 1981 you plunked $10,000 into a certificate of deposit at your friendly bank and locked in 16% annual interest for five years. Now, thanks...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW THE SEC WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU TO SHOP FOR GOVERNMENT BOND FUNDS The sizable risks some funds take with your asset val</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/11/01/83549/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/11/01/83549/index.htm</guid><description>With so many investors lusting after the highest possible yields, the managers of many fixed-income mutual funds have shown themselves all too willing to please. They are coming up with ever more c...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New Bond Breed: Taxable Municipals</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/27/68188/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/27/68188/index.htm</guid><description>Ever hear of taxable municipal bonds? Before this year they were rare as rain in the desert. Thanks to tax reform, taxable munis may soon account for as much as 20% of the municipal bond market. Th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TIME FOR TREASURIES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/09/01/83458/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/09/01/83458/index.htm</guid><description>Many economists forecast lower interest rates within the next few months. 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Risk-free yields of 13% just five years ago on Treasury bills and 16% on CDs and money-market funds may have spoiled...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>High on housing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67640/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67640/index.htm</guid><description>These are the best of times for housing, and the industry thinks the party will continue well into next year. The Department of Commerce reported that sales of new homes jumped 27.3% in March to th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SOME OVERLOOKED BOND BARGAINS Prices have galloped, but bettors on some dark horse bonds may still end up in the money.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67525/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67525/index.htm</guid><description>Six months into one of the strongest stock market sprints ever, stock jockeys can't keep up with the bond boys. Since the bond market rally began in October, the prices of long-term U.S. Treasury b...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mortgage games</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66843/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66843/index.htm</guid><description>The mortgage-backed securities market, one of the hottest new businesses on Wall Street, suffered its second blow in four months. A unit of E.F. Hutton that pools mortgages and sells shares as mort...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Come-Hither Yields of Ginnie Mae</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66222/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66222/index.htm</guid><description>With interest rates tumbling, investors seeking to lock in safe, double-digit yields are beginning to resemble naturalists in search of vanishing species. One such animal still in plentiful supply ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>