Lower-risk bond funds invest in things such as gilts (government bonds) and corporate bonds, but your income is likely to be 2%-3 2%-3%
And an incredibly cheesy Budweiser advert uses the bond between a man and his dog to promote road safety.
Family: Wife Kirsten Mehr, former bond trader, and children Isabelle (9) and Victoria (14), ex-wife Grainne Hayes, and children Thomas (23) and Samuel (26).
"The contagion risk to other economies is significant; we think that Grexit would lead to the reintroduction of a currency-risk premium and higher peripheral bond yields," said the consultancy Oxford Economics.
Europe's recovery from its debt crisis took two significant steps forward on Wednesday as Greece posted a primary budget surplus and Portugal made a successful return to the bond markets for the first time in three years.
The two of them had a bond with Pink Floyd that dated back to their early days at Cambridge, where Thorgerson had ended up after an early childhood in Potters Bar, and time spent at the famously utopian Summerhill boarding school in Suffolk.
The impact was immediate: stockmarkets jumped higher and the bond yields of Spain, and Italy, went swiftly into reverse.
This time we have space to say, 'Let's do more of this and less of this.' He also said that data analysts, provided by bond manager Social Finance, had been essential in providing extensive statistical information about the the charity's work.
"There was good evidence that this kind of bond has worked well in the US, and we can already see results here.
UK bond yields are low because growth is so appalling that the markets have no expectation that the monetary policy committee will be able to raise interest rates for years, and because we have our own central bank that can initiate quantitative easing.
Overall the leading index has edged up 6.58 points to 6687.66, with investors nervous about the prospect of the US Federal Reserve tapering its $85bn a month bond buying programme, following Wednesday night's minutes from the central bank's last meeting.
