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Expert View: Bonds: Is it time to get on the bondwagon?

By Markas Gilmartin, Third Sector, 7 May 2008

Charity trustees will be trying to absorb a forbidding array of gloomy economic data from most sectors at the moment.

As ever, though, it's important to recognise that uncertainty creates opportunities. Take fixed-interest securities. Historically, they have been a solid portfolio component for charities, because interest is treated as a distribution, not a dividend, so it can be paid gross and is not subject to tax. And fixed-interest values normally...

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