Baird Aggregate Bond InstBAGIX

Baird Aggregate Bond is straightforward and effective.

This fund doesn't try to do anything fancy. The veteran team running the fund, led by chief investment officer Mary Ellen Stanek, applies a fairly standard strategy for a core bond fund. While keeping the fund's duration (a measure of interest-rate sensitivity) pegged to the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, it modestly emphasizes those sectors that it believes will outperform over the intermediate and long term.  Read more 

Mary Ellen Stanek and her management team set out to consistently beat the fund's benchmark, the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index. They peg the fund's duration to that of the benchmark and continuously maintain a duration-neutral interest-rate position.  Read more 

As managing director and chief investment officer of Baird Advisors, Mary Ellen Stanek leads the team of six seasoned portfolio managers at this intermediate-term bond offering. Stanek, formerly president and chief executive officer of Firstar Investment Research & Management (Firstar Corp.  Read more 

Now available at a $25,000 minimum, this offering is run by experienced managers who follow a straightforward, duration-neutral approach. The strategy has produced consistently solid results over time, and for a fee, the institutional share class is available at an even lower $10,000 minimum purchase on several fund platforms.  Read more