5.1% Yields Near Record
You need only follow the money flowing into junk bonds to see how investors are reaching for yield. Over the 16 month period ending...
The 10 Largest Bond Funds
Investors are taking on more risk—and are doing it in a major way. Bond funds, which should be your anchor-to-windward money, are loading up...
Bonds Are Dead?
This has been a good year for bonds. They’re not dead. And it’s the high quality bonds that are leading the way. This from...
Here’s How Not to Invest
In Chasing Yield, Investors Plow Into Riskier Bonds, Tom Lauricella and Katy Burne of The Wall Street Journal highlight the dangers of the current...
52-Weeks with Vanguard GNMA
Vanguard GNMA is up 2.5% year-to-date and is in the black over the past 52-weeks. It’s been a rewarding couple of months for those...
World’s Largest Bank to Default!
On January 31, the world’s largest bank will default on its obligations. The somewhat tragically named 2010 China Credit-Credit Equals Gold #1 Collective Trust...
Add to Vanguard GNMA
Over the last three years GNMA bonds have paid investors an average of 150 basis points over treasuries. That’s a terrific excess return for...
Bond Market Takes a Hit
The yield on 10-year Greek bonds were 10% last week. That’s 2% points higher than they were on May 22. Remember, bond prices fall...
Billionaire Bond King Bill Gross Slams Ben Bernanke
Bill Gross is out with a scathing new Investment Outlook on Dr. Bernanke’s misguided monetary activism.
Below are the highlights. You can read the letter...
These Interest Rates Are Up
When interest rates go up, it will happen overnight, and you won’t know about it until it’s too late. That’s the predicament the state...