Fixed income securities will be exempted because they are almost never troublesome and because buyers tend to be sophisticated and diversified. Many bonds are rated by credit rating firms such as S&P, Fitch and Moody's.
I own individual bonds and bond funds. Had one tiny issue default in decades, a revenue tax exempt debenture that was luckily an insured issue.
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