Mutual funds in the U.S. that focus on bonds have the highest percentage of their assets in cash since 2008, which may temper a rise in yields from about record lows as managers put that money to work.
Managers are sitting on about $243 billion of cash and short-term securities, or about 9.79 percent of assets, after investors plowed $90 billion into taxable bond funds this year, according to Morningstar Inc. and the Investment Company Institute in Washington. That’s up from 9.1 percent last year and above the average of 8.43 percent in the decade ended 2010.
