Closed-End Funds: Screening For The Best Municipal Bond Exposure

2026-02-04 11:37:56 ET

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist

Municipal bonds can be some of the safest fixed-income investment securities there are, aside from U.S. Treasury offerings. They come with relatively lower yields for this reason, which helps keep borrowing costs low for states and other government issuers. However, this is then compensated by being Federally tax-free and usually free of state taxes as well, as long as the investor lives in that state. That creates a tax-equivalent yield that can be compared against taxable fixed-income instruments, which can often be competitive for being safer....

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