1. Neuberger and Berman Guardian has produced steady and fairly predictable income returns . 2. Bond funds, even money market accounts, will preserve your income return . 3. Slower growth reduces the risk that inflation, which erodes bonds'fixed-income returns , will accelerate. 4. Lower interest rates boost bonds, by increasing the relative value of their fixed-income return . 5. Inflation is bad for bonds because it diminishes the value of their fixed-income return . 6. Higher fixed-income returns often make stocks less attractive than equities. 7. This is because the bonds guarantee a fixed income return unless the issuer defaults. 8. At least one teller had been filing false income returns since 1979, according to prosecutors. 9. Brazilians'appetite for equities has grown because of declining fixed-income returns and spectacular stock market returns. 10. Bond investors want slow inflation in order to preserve the value of their fixed-income return .
