Fixed Income Investments can offer a steady stream of income and less risk when compared to stocks. Latest analysis on these investments and the impact to your portfolio.
(Bloomberg View) -- When I talk to friends in asset management, I often hear them express a deep, gnawing worry about low interest rates. Fears that low rates would spark inflation, or cause governments to default on their debt, seem to have...
Most market observers continue to point to the absurdity of equity price levels and inherent valuations, but the truth of the matter is that the one truly expensive market, on an unprecedented and global scale, is fixed income (with a few excepti...
(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials are warning investors not to rule out an interest-rate increase as soon as the central bank’s next meeting in November. The bond market’s response? We’re not buying it...
A twice-yearly pall has settled over mutual fund managers in the wake of the latest SPIVA Scorecard’s release. For the past 14 years, the S&P Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard, now published by S&P Dow Jones Indices, has measured the performa...
(Bloomberg) -- Investors should avoid the lure of riskier assets, save their money and get comfortable with lower returns over the coming years, according to top strategists at Vanguard Group Inc., the world’s second-biggest asset...
(Bloomberg) -- The $1.9 trillion shortfall in U.S. state and local pension funds is poised to grow as near record-low bond yields and global stock-market turmoil reduce investment gains, increasing pressure on governments to put more money...
(Bloomberg) -- For all the talk that central banks have taken over financial markets, the paralysis gripping the Federal Reserve over upsetting bond traders sure makes it seem as if it’s the other way around...
