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The Motley Fool July 7, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Can These Investments Keep Flying High? As long as you understand the risks involved, owning corporate bonds either directly or through a bond exchange-traded fund or mutual fund can give you higher yields on your money. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Beware This Investment's Hidden Risks Bonds deserve a place in most investors' portfolios. But relying on them exclusively could be riskier than you think. |
The Motley Fool February 27, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Paying for Quality With bonds, sometimes it pays to get the best. Investors and mutual funds that are buying lower-quality bonds may find that they would've been better off sticking with Treasuries in the long run. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Time to Sell This Junk? Junk bonds are getting pricey again. |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2005 |
What's a Bond? A bond is a loan from you to a company or government. If a company issues bonds, it's borrowing cash and promising to pay it back at a certain rate of interest. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Betting on January's Big Winners For investors who dared to venture outside the stock box, January brought some good news. Within long-neglected asset classes, such as the corporate bond market, investors who beat the crowd reaped some healthy rewards. |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Death of Bonds? You shouldn't give up on bonds entirely, but neither should you rely on them to support you without help from other investments. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
What's a Bond? Think of bonds as IOUs, or long-term loans. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Best Investment for the Next 40 Years Simple math says bonds can't outperform stocks forever. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Tax-Smart Answer to Low Interest Rates Municipal bonds aren't risk-free, but they are attractive. |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The True Risk of Bond ETFs Rising interest rates will hurt more than you might expect. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
U.S. Treasury 1, S&P 0 Treasuries stand out in a bond market that's otherwise lackluster at best. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
A Slam-Dunk Trade for 2009 Treasuries are expensive; high-grade corporate bonds are cheap. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Time to Buy These Beaten-Down Investments? Junk bonds have fallen, and investors are running scared. What's the smart move? |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2009 Ben Levisohn |
Are Treasuries a Safe Haven? Or Dangerous? Treasury bonds' prices have fallen dramatically since last fall. Does that signal economic recovery - or runaway inflation? |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Dan Caplinger |
Why 2011's Big Winner Is a Bad Investment Don't jump into long-term Treasuries. |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Is California Dreamin'? Muni bonds are pricing in disaster. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Save Yourself From the Bond Bear The possibility of losses in bonds has some people running scared, but you should stay smart. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Count On This New Favorite Corporate bonds don't offer the bang for the buck they used to. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The Hidden Danger Inside Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again. The recent flight to safety in the fixed-income markets reveals the distinctions among different types of bonds. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Broken Bonds Even if you've just experienced a painful breakup with the stock market, don't go falling in love with bonds just because you're on the rebound. The plain truth is that looking for love in today's bond market could lead to another broken heart. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Right Way to Balance Stock Risk Stocks may be the investment that will make you rich. But once you've saved up a decent nest egg, you'll need other investments to help you stay rich. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
It's Time to Buy These Hated Investments Prices in the municipal bond market have been beaten down to the point where their yields make no sense -- and smart investors are starting to look for opportunity. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Tim Knepp |
The High Yield Influence The meteoric rise of asset prices seen in 2009 was particularly evident across high yield bonds, and 2010 has witnessed another strong year for this asset class. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Are Bonds the Answer for 2009? The iShares GS $InvesTop Corp Bond ETF is built on high-grade corporate bonds. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Ivan Martchev |
How to Invest With Deflation Deflation is a much rarer economic phenomenon than inflation; the last time it happened in the United States was in the 1930s. If inflation is bad, shouldn't deflation be good? Well, we all know how the 1930s worked out. |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
How Bond Funds Can Burn You There are many traps for this "safe" investment. |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
4 Things to Buy Instead of Treasuries 401(k) reform may have had an unintended consequence. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
5 Questions Stan and Hildy Richelson, authors of Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth, answer five questions about the recent volatility in the fixed income market. |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Investments Are Far From Risk-Free Don't get seduced by bonds. |
Financial Advisor October 2009 Eric Rasmussen |
The Ripe Fruit Mellows Corporate bonds offered great opportunity earlier in the year, but now that yields have fallen, investors are rethinking strategy. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Lower-Risk Way to Reap Rich Rewards Corporate bonds are beginning to look a lot more like stocks, both for current income as well as the potential for capital appreciation. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Make a Mint With Munis With falling yields elsewhere, municipal bonds look more attractive. Traditionally difficult to buy, it is now a little easier to purchase them with a new ETF, the iShares S&P National Municipal Bond Fund. |
On Wall Street March 1, 2011 Jerry Webman |
The End Of The Bond Empire? Now, investors reasonably ask whether fixed income investments actually have a future. My answer is that they do. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Should You Bet on a Junk Bond Collapse? ProShares Short High-Yield ETF lets you short the junk bond market. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Why Bonds Might Not Crash After All History doesn't leave it a foregone conclusion. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Don't Get Crushed by This $376 Billion Bubble I'm talking about the bubble in bond funds. Where should investors put their money? For me, the choice is easy. I favor large-cap, high-quality stocks |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How to Escape the Most Dangerous Investment Today Bill Gross says to steer clear of Treasuries. What should you do instead? |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
Investing In Bonds Having some bonds in your portfolio is not only a good way to make money, it's also a great way to diversify. Here's what you need to know before you invest in the bond market. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 David Henry |
Ahead Of A Fed Move, A Cash Cow Runs Dry Like a tightrope walker on a suddenly windy day, the bond market is trying to get back to solid ground after a heady period of high profits made from cheap money and a tactic known as the carry trade |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2009 Todd Wenning |
Stocks to Fight the Coming Inflation Wave Now's the time to prepare your portfolio. |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Marla Brill |
Why Bonds Keep Beating The Odds Financial advisors who have been taking defensive measures in anticipation of rising long-term rates and falling bond prices may have to wait awhile longer for their strategies to shine. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
The New Stocks Where can financial planners seek those historic equity market returns without the painful setbacks? One place to start is in the bond market. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Stuart Bromberg |
The Muni Option Municipal bonds and bond funds are still reasonably cheap and offer tax-free ballast to diversify a portfolio. But when advising clients about municipal bonds, it's important to assess whether the investors could be subject to the alternative minimum tax. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Follow Bill Gross Off the Cliff PIMCO bond maven Bill Gross throws in the towel. Should you? |
Financial Advisor December 2010 Eric Uhlfelder |
Going Global Investors have entered some less explored foreign corners of the debt market in their search for yield. So far, it has been paying off, but caution is needed. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Buoyant Bonds The world seems to be awash in debt, especially government debt. Considering that government issues are crucial to the world's bond markets, fixed-income investments have held up surprisingly well. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 J Gibson Watson |
Opportunities Stirring in the Municipal Market For now, munis are trading at tight premiums to Treasuries -- but don't assume that means they are risk-free |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Big-Time Risk on Short-Term Money Short-term bond funds have been billed as an attractive substitute for money-market mutual funds. But as some investors are discovering, these funds aren't risk-free. Yields fluctuate, and you risk losing some principal. |