Bond investors have reason to fret these days. With the Federal Reserve holding its benchmark rate at just 1 percent, short-term funds pay puny yields. The economy appears to be recovering, implying that rates are bound to rise in the next year...
To measure Janus Mercury's fortunes in newspaper column inches is to believe the fund is a disaster. An aggressive growth specialist, Mercury suffered big losses in 2000 and 2001. That was followed by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...