Don’t Let Your Lazy Cash Eat all Your Food
With bond yields this high and considering you might have some lazy cash still sitting around doing nothing, isn’t it time to put it...
Invest with Peace of Mind and Comfort
When will the coast be clear, dear investors? Let’s take a minute and think about that question.
When investors were gobbling up tech shares at...
Muni Funds Cut Distributions
Muni bond funds run by Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) have seen their distributions cut by as much as 45% after a jump in...
How Your Survival Guy Feels about CDs
Investors in deep blue states can take pleasure in knowing interest income from Treasuries is tax free on a state and local level—but that’s...
Here’s an Investment You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Happy November. Hope you made it a good month. When stocks are up 14% for the month, it’s hard not to. Why? Because it...
Should You Index Bonds?
Ellen Carr writing in the FT lists four reason why bonds should be actively managed.
First, true indexation — that is, investing in all the...
Thrills in Bills: New Excitement for Treasury Investors
Your Survival Guy likes a bond ladder, and treasuries certainly need to play a role. Take a look at the treasury yield curve below...
Corporate Bond Yields: What You Can Earn Today
Corporate bonds are a good place to pick up yield in the
bond market. With yields on government bonds in much of Europe and Japan...
Junk Bond Yields
What do junk bonds yield today? The table below lists the yield of the Merrill Lynch junk bond index (High-Yield index), as well as...
Sink Your Teeth into These Bond Yields
“Red sky in morn, sailors take warn,” goes the saying. On this morning, the sun was as red as a lollipop, the kind that...