Empower Short Duration Bond Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The leading factor in the rating is the fund's strong long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five ...

The bond market has been volatile in April amid concern that tariffs will spark supply-chain disruptions, potentially leading ...

In the years immediately after the financial crisis, quantitative easing ensured bond yields stayed relatively low and bond prices displayed little volatility. This was because central banks ...

The next biggest risk comes from duration. A bond's duration is simply the length of the loan. So a loan that will be repaid in one year has a one-year duration. A loan that will be repaid in 30 ...

Bond ETFs remained the best nonleveraged fund category as Trump’s tariffs sent stock prices tumbling. - Three fixed-income funds have risen on fears of inflation and a slowing economy: SGOV, BIL and ...

Not everyone has the risk tolerance to go all in on stocks. A 100% equity portfolio can deliver strong long-term returns, but it also comes with severe fluctuations along the way.

For years, one of the factors which the most popular strategic bond funds had in common was a very long duration. Not only was this duration quite long, but it seemed to only go up — hitting ...

Data on recent flows indicate a number of market players recently reduced duration risk in the U.S. bond market, according to rates strategists Meghan Swiber and Katie Craig at BofA Securities. This m ...

since longer-dated bonds typically pay more interest to compensate investors for the added duration risk and opportunity cost of locking up their money for an extended period. This can boost ...