Discover how put bonds give bondholders the right to compel issuers to repurchase bonds before maturity, elucidating their ...

Benchmark bonds set performance standards for other bonds. This article covers their definition, operation, and examples that ...

Bonds play an important role in many portfolios by providing income, helping to manage volatility, and adding diversification ...

You may be familiar with bonds, but bond funds are a different way to invest in them. A bond fund is a professionally managed pool of bonds — held inside an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or mutual fund — ...

A fiduciary bond acts as a financial guarantee by ensuring a fiduciary acts in the best interest of the party the fiduciary serves, protecting estates and beneficiaries Written By Written by Staff ...

I recently interviewed my colleague Eric Jacobson for Morningstar’s The Long View podcast. Among other things, we talked about his research into active fixed-income investing, summarized in this ...

Despite reassuring bond returns lately, troubles abound in what was once a sleepy haven for risk-averse investors. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and ...

When bond yields were near zero a few years ago, retirees hunting for income had to venture into riskier territory. Now that ...

The case for indexing the bond market isn’t nearly as straightforward as it is for the stock market. Passive investing can be effective in liquid, higher-quality, and homogeneous parts of the bond ...