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Contact:             Jennifer A. Galloway, Chief Communications Officer
                         (703) 797-6600
                         jgalloway@msrb.org


MSRB PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO INVESTORS CONSIDERING MUNICIPAL BONDS
Fact Sheet Has Seven Questions Investors Can Ask Their Financial Professional

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today released a fact sheet intended to provide individual investors with a starting point for a discussion with their financial professional about factors to consider when investing in bonds. Seven Questions to Ask When Investing in Municipal Bonds provides investors with timely and useful information such as:

  • How to access key information and trade data about municipal bonds free of charge
  • How to find out if a bond’s price is fair
  • Why an investor’s individual tax-status may impact the return on a municipal investment
  • Why investors should ask how their financial professional is compensated
  • What duties an investment professional has toward investors considering municipal bonds

The MSRB is providing this information as part of its mission to protect and educate investors. Seven Questions to Ask When Investing in Municipal Bonds is available here and in the Education Center of the MSRB’s Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) website at www.emma.msrb.org.  

EMMA provides access, free of charge, to disclosure documents associated with municipal bonds, real-time trade data for approximately 1.2 million outstanding municipal bonds, as well as current interest rates for auction rate securities and variable rate demand obligations.  EMMA’s Education Center provides useful information about investing in municipal bonds and 529 college savings plans, and a Glossary of Municipal Securities Terms.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) protects and strengthens the municipal bond market, enabling access to capital, economic growth, and societal progress in tens of thousands of communities across the country. The MSRB fulfills this mission by creating trust in our market through informed regulation of dealers and municipal advisors that protects investors, issuers and the public interest; building technology systems that power our market and provide transparency for issuers, institutions, and the investing public; and serving as the steward of market data that empowers better decisions and fuels innovation for the future. The MSRB is a self-regulatory organization governed by a board of directors that has a majority of public members, in addition to representatives of regulated entities. The MSRB is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress.

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