The market’s recent turmoil is prompting some fund managers, particularly bond fund managers, to adjust their holdings, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Diversified stock funds are down 4.1% in the past month and 1.4% in the past three months. Categories that have taken the worst hits include real estate funds, down 14% in the past three months, and financial services funds, down 8.9%. Among bond funds, those that invest in high-yield debt have taken the worst hit, and even ultra-short bond funds are down 0.31% in the past month.
In fact, some junk bond fund managers have moved some of their assets into stocks, including the Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund, which has moved 6% of its assets into stocks. In a recent letter to shareholders, the fund said it would remain “defensively postured [for] the foreseeable future.”
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