Focus on Shorter Duration Municipals, Morgan Stanley Says
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(Bloomberg) -- With 78 percent of the yield curve captured by going out just 12 years, investors should favor short-to-neutral duration municipals, according to Matthew Gastall, executive director of Morgan Stanley’s wealth management team.
- If interest rates rise, "short-to-neutral duration securities should hold their value more effectively" than those with longer maturities
- Focus on high-quality municipals due to there being less compensation overall for taking on credit risk, so should business cycle turn lower-quality names will experience more stress
- Bond ladder strategy of short-to-neutral duration bonds can be effective intermediary between earning yield without taking excessive interest-rate risk for buy-and-hold investors
- Consider fall entry points once current period of weakness stabilizes; add exposure through dollar-cost averaging
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