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Although investors have continued to overwhelmingly favor bond funds over equity funds—taxable bond funds have netted $200 billion in inflows so far this year compared with a scant $4.3 billion to equity funds—their risk tolerance has remarkably changed.

Because yields on mainstream bond funds are so low, investors’ appetite for lower-quality, higher-risk bond funds, including those invested in mortgage-backed securities, has once again returned.

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