How to Survive Soaring Interest Rates
For income investors, the threat of soaring interest rates is a nagging risk. If your portfolio is loaded up with the wrong types of...
2% Where Have You Been All These Years?
Yesterday was the first time since the Spring of 2011, that the yield on 5-year Treasury notes crossed 2%. What's so special about a...
Portfolio Strategy: This is What Happens When You Try to Pick up Nickels in...
After enduring years of the Federal Reserve’s zero percent interest rates and trillions worth of long-term bond purchases meant to drive widows and orphans...
Destruction in the Bond Market Looks Like This
We have warned against the extreme volatility in long bonds from just a slight up-tick in rates. Read here, here and here. In 2012...
Does Trump offer hope for Income Investors?
Eight years of near zero interest rates in the bond market have inflicted untold pain on America’s retired investors and savers. Those who saved...
Tidal Wave of Junk Bond ETF Outflows
Inflation and uncertainty over future interest rate moves by the world's central banks are causing junk bond investors to flee for the exits. Over...
Are you part of the most crowded trade in income investing?
Bloomberg reports that the most crowded trade in income investing is at risk of overheating. Long-bonds have been big winners YTD, but according to...
Income Investing: These Bonds Can Help Reduce Interest Rate Risk
Many individual investors shy away from bonds that trade at a premium to par value because they don’t see the point in paying, say...
Pensions: Left on the Hook will be the Taxpayer
Ike Brannon, a visiting fellow at the Cato Institute, explains how the Puerto Rico rescue makes state pensioners the big winner.
Right now, states cannot...
Why a Million Bucks ain’t what it Used to Be
U.S. savers and retired investors who planned to fund their retirement with their life’s savings have been savaged by the Fed’s ultra-low interest rate...