FMN News and Press, Federated Premier Municipal Income Fund From 10/10/18

Federated Premier Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: FMN ) declares $0.054/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. More news on: Federated Premier Municipal Income Fund, Dividend News, , Read more ...

PITTSBURGH , Oct. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Federated Premier Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: FMN) has declared a dividend.  The fund seeks to provide investors with current dividend income that is exempt from regular federal income tax.  In addition, this fund features income ...

There's more than one way to invest in municipal bonds. Closed-end municipal funds seek to provide higher levels of income, and short-term volatility can present attractive entry points for long-term investors. Municipal bonds offer multiple benefits to income-seeking investors-high qualit...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA In a year when we have seen commentators talking about the relative flatness of yield curves, we have a conundrum when we look at the US Treasury yield curve and the US muni yield curve (shown here as the Bloomberg AA general obligation yield curve). Curve 1 belo...

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Moody's Investors Service's recently released annual municipal bond market snapshot, US Municipal Bond Defaults and Recoveries, 1970-2017, with updates through 2017, reaffirms two hallmark benefits that muni bonds continue to offer. First, muni bonds continued to be highly rated in 2017, wit...

Introduction Over the past few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage, and directional, opportunities for active traders like us. Now that these products have grabbed our ...

By Stephanie Larosiliere, Senior Client Portfolio Manager on Aug 24, 2018, in Fixed Income Tax reform created a rush of issuance last year Recently, municipal bonds have performed well despite increased market volatility and a rising interest rate environment that saw the 10-year U...