TheStreet.com Ratings
Guide to Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds
2008 Editions

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Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

The Street.com Ratings’ Guide to Bond & Money Market Mutual Funds has everything your patrons need to easily identify the top-performing fixed income funds on the market today.

Each quarterly edition contains TheStreet.com’s independent ratings and analyses on more than 4,600 fixed income funds – more than any other publication, including corporate bond funds, high-yield bond funds, municipal bond funds, mortgage security funds, money market funds, global bond funds and government bond funds.

In addition, the fund’s risk rating is combined with its three-year performance rating to get an overall picture of the fund’s risk-adjusted performance. The resulting TheStreet.com Investment Rating gives a single, user-friendly, objective evaluation that makes it easy to compare one fund to another and select the right fund based on the level of risk tolerance.

Most investors think of fixed income mutual funds as "safe" investments. That's not always the case, however, depending on the credit risk, interest rate risk, and prepayment risk of the securities owned by the fund. TheStreet.com Ratings assesses each of these risks and assigns each fund a risk rating to help investors quickly evaluate the fund's risk component.

Plus, we include a handy Risk Profile Quiz to help you assess your personal tolerance for risk. So whether you're an investing novice or professional, the Guide to Bond and Money Market Mutual Funds gives you everything you need to find a mutual fund that is right for you.

TheStreet.com Ratings Guides

TheStreet.com’s rating scale is extremely straightforward and easy to understand. There are no complicated number grades to interpret, no colored paper to decode, and no stars to count. Instead, each entry gets a simple, intuitive letter grade that immediately identifies the wheat from the chaff. This is one more reason why TheStreet.com Ratings is widely recognized as "America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety." The TheStreet.com Safety Ratings have been proven to be the most accurate available from any of the major rating agencies. Plus, unlike the other major rating agencies, TheStreet.com does not accept compensation from the companies it rates, and thus does not allow companies to influence the ratings they receive or to suppress the release of their ratings. In fact, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) validated TheStreet.com’s accuracy in its Insurance Ratings study, and that same superior rating methodology is used when deriving all other ratings as well.

Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

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