Other professional investors use passive funds as low-cost defensive ballast. While stocks can offer long-term growth, having ...

In a year when many bond funds have lost money, corporate bond funds have eked out gains, with the best returns coming from some of the most aggressive strategies. Driving the returns on the ...

Benchmark bonds set performance standards for other bonds. This article covers their definition, operation, and examples that ...

The big jump in stocks—especially tech stocks—this year has proven the forecasts of imminent and dire recession that were seemingly everywhere in 2022 dead wrong. Unfortunately, those predictions ...

Corporate bonds are one way to invest in a company, offering a lower-risk, lower-return way to bet on a firm’s ongoing success, compared to its stock. Bonds offer a regular cash payout, and their ...

High-yield corporate bond ETFs provide investors with strong yields, albeit somewhat elevated credit risk. There are lots of high-yield bond ETFs available to investors. Some with higher yields, some ...

Corporate bond exchange-traded funds can be an easy and inexpensive way for investors to access a broad, diversified portfolio of bonds that would be hard for individual investors to assemble. To ...

The end of low interest rates and growing geopolitical headwinds made it tricky for issuers to access the corporate bond market in Europe. Despite the difficult times, HSBC picked up market share ...

As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2006 the outstanding notional amount of U.S. corporate bonds totaled $8.2 trillion, the third largest asset class after equities and mortgage-backed securities ...

Interest rates and stock returns are expected to decline, impacting investment strategies. Historically, stocks and bonds have alternated in performance, affecting portfolio decisions. Credit markets ...

The LQD ETF isn't offering enough extra yield compared to safer US government bonds to be worth the risk. Credit spreads remain too tight, in my opinion. This presents a risk for the current holders ...