July 2012
Beginner
264 pages
8h 24m
English
The two sectors discussed in this chapter, tobacco settlement bonds and land-secured bonds, are not considered part of the usual arsenal for the typical high yield tax-exempt investor. Rather, they have been used by more aggressive institutional investors with portfolios large enough to provide proper risk diversification. Tobacco settlement bonds could be quite volatile and their liquidity limited. Land-secured bonds are effectively illiquid real estate transactions, which require extremely sophisticated credit research and surveillance efforts, and even some of the largest mutual funds in the country have stumbled badly in this sector.
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