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To: Wallace Rivers who wrote (30807)	5/1/2008 7:36:30 PM
From: Paul Senior	Respond to of 78702

BGF/BGS. Looking at it again now, it doesn't seem like there's much difference. As you say, the dividend yield is about the same. (BGF a little higher now; and with different tax rates for bonds vs. stocks, that difference could diminish.) Half of BGF is the bond component, so maybe that bond half is safer than the common. OTOH, whatever risk is in BGS common is in the BGS half of BGF too. I may have started with BGF because when I first bought, I believed the yield was so much more than BGS. (I don't even remember if BGS traded then without the bond though.) I've just stuck with BGF, and as the price has come down, I added more BGF. I've no favorite, one over the other. Might be that since BGS has come down so much more relative to BGF, that BGS might be the better value now. finance.yahoo.com