Jessica Lerner is a senior reporter and buy-side specialist for Bond Buyer where she writes the daily market column, the monthly volume story and longer trend stories. Prior to this, she worked as a beat reporter at two Connecticut newspapers. She earned her master's in business and economics reporting from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor's in journalism and statistics from the University of Connecticut.
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Fund flows "should be moving along a more positive trajectory, but they have yet to do so with munis unable to break free of the Treasury market's tight grip," Oppenheimer's Jeff Lipton said.
September 19 -
Refinitiv Lipper reported $116.737 million was pulled from municipal bond mutual funds for the week ending Wednesday after $798.474 million of outflows from the funds the previous week.
September 14 -
There hasn't been a huge return of capital in the muni market so far this year, with fund flows being rather anemic, said Chad Farrington, co-head of municipal bond strategy at DWS Group.
September 13 -
"One of the things that my parents said to me early on in my life is, 'If you have the will to do something, you can make it happen,'" Prachi Chandhok said.
September 13 -
"What has kept me so interested in this market is the ability to actually learn something new every day, which has been extremely rewarding," said Morgan Fahy.
September 13 -
"Matt has become a seasoned and well-respected credit/risk management analyst," said Victor Chu, managing director at Assured Guaranty.
September 13 -
While supply this week is "softer," uncertainty and volatility may prevail once more due to "yields still not exciting longer-term investors," said Matt Fabian, a partner at Municipal Market Analytics.
September 12 -
Munis have had a slow start "down roughly 0.25% for the first week of September bringing year-to-date returns to 1.34%," said Jason Wong, vice president of municipals at AmeriVet Securities.
September 11 -
Historically, "September and, to a lesser degree, October have not been kind to municipal investors."
September 8 -
Refinitiv Lipper reported $798.474 million was pulled from municipal bond mutual funds in the week ending Wednesday after $407.976 million of inflows into the funds the previous week.
September 7