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.
Since the first exchange-traded bond fund appeared in 2002, financial rocket scientists have struggled to launch a tax-free ETF. The development efforts finally bore fruit in September, when Barclays Global Investors launched its iShares S&P...
Efforts to make corporate bonds more appealing to retail investors have reached a crossroads, and their ultimate success or failure now depends in large part on whether financial advisors acquire an appetite for them. The advisors, of course, must...
If there’s one thing to be learned from “all weather” investment strategies such as muni laddering, it’s this: there is such a thing as too conservative.
It's repeated so often it has almost become a financial planner's mantra: Over 20 years, stocks always beat bonds. Look back on history, the refrain continues, and you'll see, the pattern has held true generation after generation. It's time to...
When the Federal Reserve signals an imminent rate rise, the news is traditionally greeted like a general alarm in the high-yield bond markets: Get out while you can! Run for your lives! But there are many who believe that a knee-jerk response...
During the 1990's bull market, many dismissed bonds as plodding investment vehicles that only produced single-digit returns. But when hotshot stocks sputtered, those pedestrian bonds pressed forward. Today, the value of a fixed-income allocation...
