A riskier part of the fixed-income market appears relatively stable despite hand-wringing over a global trade war, as ...

This year’s seesaw action in the stock market has emphasized two important concepts for investors: Diversification can lower ...

One of the golden rules of fixed income is simple: when interest rates fall, bond prices rise. But here is the nuance—longer-duration bonds benefit more from this trend than shorter ones.

GOVT lets you buy the entire haystack, holding around 200 Treasury securities ranging from one to 30 years in maturity ...

One underappreciated victim of the fiat age is long-dated bonds. When price predictability of the money is strong, and ...

Wider credit spreads increase the attractiveness of high-yield corporate bond funds. Read more to see my recommendations.

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 ...