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The article discusses a trend of increasing investment in securities backed by delinquent home mortgages that are on the verge of foreclosure. Topics addressed include investment in these bonds by U.S. mutual funds and other institutional investors, the sale of the bonds by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD), and considerations of the bonds' yields.

The article discusses so-called junk bonds and states that retail investors have invested $11.8 billion into junk-bond mutual funds as of February 27, 2012. The article states that mutual fund managers are purchasing more junk bonds and that such high-yield bonds have returned 4.74 percent in as of February 27, 2012. The article offers comments from MFS Investment Management chief investment strategist Jim Swanson.

The article reports that investors are withdrawing their investments from the emerging market following their concerns on the increasing expenses and low return among mutual funds in five years as of 2016.

Reports that hedge funds are taking advantage of their growing popularity by boosting fees and grabbing a bigger slice of the high returns that made them so attractive in the first place. Appeal of the these private investment partnerships for pension plans, charities, school endowments, and individual investors as well as the institutions and wealthy people they have always catered to; Requirement of an initial investment of at least $250,000 with a net work of $1 million to $1.5 million; Recording of annual gains of 10.7 percent since 1994; Details of increases in fees.