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Individual bonds vs. Bond Mutual Funds

By Mike Switzer

Published July 18, 2023 at 5:30 AM EDT

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With interest rates considerably higher than they were a year ago, many investors are becoming interested again in income generating investments. Today, we will talk about the advantages to investing in individual bonds vs. bond mutual funds. Mike Switzer interviews Roy Janse, a certified financial planner with Mariner Wealth Advisors in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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