With over 850 species, the genus Nomada is one of the largest genera in the entire family Apidae, and the largest genus of cleptoparasitic cuckoo bees.. They occur worldwide, and utilize many different types of bees as hosts, primarily the genus Andrena.
In an earlier article, I wrote about the iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Fund ETF (NYSEARCA: REM) as a good way to generate income in an environment where interest rates are low, and yields on investment grade bonds are quite possibly at long-time lows.hile I initially thought that an ETF would be a more attractive investment because of the diversification, I found that the performance of REM significantly lagged the performance of both AGNC and NLY over all periods analyzed.
In a previous post we discussed the most common types of investment funds; mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). This review will focus on a specific version of these funds, the defined maturity fund. A defined maturity fund (DMF) is, simply put, a fund which has a specified ending date, which is generally included in the name of the fund. For example, a 2020 fund would be a fund that would close down and return all assets to investors at some point in the year 2020.