But most of the smart, conservative municipal credit analysts who did a good job yesterday are still doing a good job today.
The alternative strategy is to buy a cheap term policy and invest the balance of the $24,000 in a conservative municipal bond fund earning, say, 4% per year on average.
July 31 , 1884Piła, Poland February 2 , 1945Berlin, Germany Carl Goerdeler, in full Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Carl also spelled Karl (born July 31 , 1884 Schneidemühl, Germany [now Piła, Poland] died February 2 , 1945 Berlin) conservative German municipal administrator and prominent figure in the resistance movement and in an unsuccessful coup against Adolf Hitler.
A growing number of smaller investors are pulling back from the stock market, seeking more conservative alternatives like municipal and treasury bonds.
The bond insurers suffered mightily when then moved beyond their conservative home base of municipal bond insurance into providing support for some of the mortgage products.
But they've also shown a more conservative side, loading up on municipal bonds out of recurrent tax worries.
A3 Conservatives Gain in Greece Greek conservatives won in country-wide municipal elections, including for mayor of Athens, but fell far short of the margin needed to force the long-governing Socialists to call early national elections.
He was also hurt by the slumping popularity of Rob Ford, the city's ideologically conservative mayor, who has cut the municipal government's spending sharply.
Yet despite Salonika's vibrant cultural output and young population — students number around 150,000 — over the past few decades, its municipal leadership grew increasingly conservative, withholding support from projects that veered from its entrenched brand of Macedonian monoculturalism.
The 15-M camp dissolved on June 12, at which point many, after the overwhelming victory of the traditionally conservative PP Peoplee's Party) in the municipal elections of May 22, thought the movement was dead.
Greek conservatives claimed victory today in countrywide municipal elections, including one for mayor of Athens, but fell far short of the margin needed to force the long-governing Socialists to call early national elections, according to surveys of voters.
