Rates must go substantially higher before bonds can challenge the return on stocks.
You can get high yields plus your money back at a preset termination date.
Keep a balanced portfolio by improving your income-investing intellect.
Lenders must reveal your credit score free if you are denied credit or charged a higher rate.
Our advice for managing your income investments: hold Treasuries, buy investment-grade corporate and municipal bonds.
Here's what you should know to protect your portfolio, no matter how the politicians handle the U.S. debt debate.
A 28-year bull market for bonds has dulled memories. But the risks of owning bonds today are huge. They once suffered through a 50-year-long bear market.
By limiting your munis to maturities of three to six years, you'll reduce the risk of inflation eating away at the value of your bonds.
These hybrids deliver solid income and let you benefit from gains in the issuer's stock.
With large budget deficits, our country's top-notch bond rating risks being downgraded.
Before investing in a bond fund, know what could dampen your results.
Even if the markets stumble, you can keep your portfolio steady with these smart investing strategies.
The best bond funds weather inflation by allowing their managers the flexibility to invest in all types of bonds and maturities.
Making money in bond funds will be tough this year. These four should perform well.
For investors with no taste for common stocks, we’ve updated our investing recipe for Tofurky.
You still have some time to join the high-yield bond party.
Make Pimco Total Return the core of a bond portfolio and complement it with other funds.
One good company can be twice as nice an investment and get you 36 paydays a year when you buy both its stock and its bonds.
Bond maven Marilyn Cohen shares her advice on making money in the new fixed income landscape.
How you deal with appreciated bonds should depend on what kind of investor you are.
Our favorites stir in some foreign and domestic bonds to spread your risk and boost your return.
We put together a diversified bond portfolio using inexpensive exchange-traded funds.
With corporate and municipal bond yields down and interest rates likely to rise, the best buying opportunities are abroad.
Bond investors will find the coming year challenging.
If you think the long-term trend in interest rates is up, you should buy callable bonds.
Even after the magnificent run-up in bond values, investors will stay loyal to bonds and bond funds.
Successful investing depends on allocating a big chunk of your money to commodities and real estate securities, as well as to stocks and bonds, argues an asset-allocation guru.
Shortly after Thanksgiving last year, we created a Tofurky portfolio that managed to produce some tasty returns.