Fixed Income

Both equities and bond prices dropped sharply in January as markets priced in a faster pace of interest-rate tightening during 2022 from the Federal Reserve.

In this economic environment, staying the course is riskier than trying something new.

The new omicron strain of the coronavirus poses an ongoing challenge to the economic recovery, according to the Fed.

“Fixed-income is really the only game in town if you want to harvest losses at this point in the year.”

Series I savings bonds currently offer 7.12% annualized yield until May 1. So what's the catch?

“In this environment, we think 60/40 is pretty dangerous.”

With the S&P 500 posting its biggest slide Friday since February, Treasuries rallied big time on haven buying and cushioned the selloff in global risk markets. 

Gensler first raised concerns about bond transparency in September, saying he’d asked the SEC staff to recommend ways to make the markets for corporate and municipal debt and mortgage backed-securities less opaque.

So-called alternative assets, which also include digital currencies, private debt and private equity, “should continue to outperform into 2022,” JPMorgan strategists wrote.