Investors who buy bonds obtain a key piece of information that the purchasers of most other investments don’t get—they know precisely how much money the...
Robert M. Brinker, CFS
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Best Bond Funds 2025
In recent years, many investors have wondered why they should own bonds at all…especially during a brutal bond bear market when you could earn a...
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After the historic losses bond investors suffered the past two years, it’s no wonder they are content to stash more than $6 trillion in money-market...
What Canaries Can Tell You About theStock Market … and Which Ones Are Most Accurate Now
Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Samuelson once said, “The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.” His wry observation was intended to...
Best Bond Funds for 2024
Investors were looking for some relief in 2023 from the bond bear market. But the Federal Reserve’s four interest rate hikes chipped away at short-term...
Treasury Alternative
This year’s bank failures created a silver lining for bond investors—after the Federal government took control of assets from Silicon Valley Bank and others, it...
Will Bond Funds Make A Comeback in 2023?
Bonds performed so poorly last year that investors wonder if they should own them at all. The total bond market as measured by the Bloomberg...
The Bond-Fund Meltdown
Bonds are supposed to be steady, reliable, even boring investments—but they’ve created plenty of drama this year. The Bloomberg US Aggregate bond index plunged 6%...
The Outlook for Bonds in 2022… and the Best Bond Funds Now
For the past decade, bonds have dodged a bear market. Has their luck finally run out? The bond market faced rough waters in 2021, down...
