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Retirement savers flee stocks as market slides
February 8, 2018
Retirement savers violated a cardinal rule of investing this past week: They sold into a plunging market. After racing into equities in January, they did an about-face as markets fell last Friday. Savers moved into money and fixed-income funds,...
Stocks enter correction territory amid renewed interest-rate fears
February 8, 2018
The dread that gripped equity markets earlier in the week reemerged Thursday as U.S. stocks plunged into a correction on concern that rising interest rates will drag down economic growth. Selling accelerated in the final hour of trading as major...
Exchange-traded notes add another layer of risk
February 7, 2018
The collapse of the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN (XIV) this week should prompt advisers to take a hard look at their clients' holdings of exchange-traded notes. The ETN was a bet on decreasing volatility, as measured by the...
Bill Gross fares worst among go-anywhere bond managers as stocks slide
February 7, 2018
Bill Gross was having a good 2018, until he wasn't. Mr. Gross's $2.2 billion Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund fell 0.83% as markets plunged Monday — its biggest drop since Dec. 30, 2016, and the worst one-day performance in Morningstar...
Pimco views 3% 10-year yield as buying opportunity
February 1, 2018
Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Dan Ivascyn and Mark Kiesel say 3% yields on 10-year Treasuries may be a signal to buy rather than the beginning of a bond bear market that other managers have warned about. "There'll be buyers of bonds if...
Stock market's rally has room to run, Jeremy Siegel says
February 1, 2018
Don't sell yet, because the historic stock market run still has some fuel in the tank, according to Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School. Speaking Thursday in Orlando, Fla., at TD Ameritrade Institutional's 2018 National...
Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan sees bubbles in stocks and bonds
February 1, 2018
The man who made the term "irrational exuberance" famous says investors are at it again. "There are two bubbles: We have a stock market bubble, and we have a bond market bubble," Alan Greenspan, 91, said Wednesday on Bloomberg Television. Mr....
Treasury market pummeled in its worst January since 2009
February 1, 2018
The U.S. Treasury market is delivering investors a loss of historic proportions to start 2018. The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury Index was down 1.42% through Jan. 30. It's on track for the worst start to a year since January 2009, when traders...
The good and mostly bad of rising interest rates
January 31, 2018
When a racoon leaps at you from the back seat, causing you to run your new car into a bridge abutment, people will always point out how lucky you are. Hey, the bridge didn't collapse on you! Good thing you had insurance! Thank goodness the raccoon...
Bridgewater's Dalio says bonds face biggest bear market since '80s
January 24, 2018
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio said that the bond market has slipped into a bear phase and warned that a rise in yields could spark the biggest crisis for fixed-income investors in almost 40 years. "A 1% rise in bond yields will produce...
Fintech startup wants to help advisers find and sell muni bonds
January 23, 2018
It's like Zillow, but for bonds. That's the idea behind Bond Navigator, a cloud-based digital marketplace for advisers to find and evaluate municipal bonds, that launched Tuesday from startup 280 CapMarkets. Gurinder Ahluwalia, the co-founder...
Bond investors have more to worry about than a government shutdown
January 19, 2018
Bond yields have marched higher this year, and returns from bond funds have marched lower. Will a government shutdown make things worse? Probably not, provided it's a short-term problem. A bigger worry is a rise in overseas rates, which could...
Bear market for bonds has arrived, Gross says
January 11, 2018
Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globe Awards pronouncement that "Time is up" for men who oppress women also goes for the bond market that's been buoyed by repressed interest rates, according to Bill Gross. "Bonds, like men, are in a bear market," Mr....
2018 outlook in bond investing calls for change
January 6, 2018
The bond market is bracing for change in 2018. With a backdrop of a handful of expected interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, this year could represent the start of the first bear market in bonds since the 1980s. If...
Morgan Stanley slashes junk bond allocation
January 4, 2018
It's too late in this market cycle to bet on high-yield bonds, according to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. So, the $2 trillion money management arm is completely slashing junk bond allocation. True, tax cuts are expected to inject fresh momentum...
Time to remind clients why they won't beat the Dow this year
December 28, 2017
As 2017 marches into history, most investors will agree: It was a pretty darn good year. But your clients might need to be reminded why they didn't beat the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. As of Wednesday, the S&P 500 had clocked a 22.2%...
Avoid these bond-buying pitfalls
December 22, 2017
Nearly every day, I see municipal bonds trading on various platforms at higher prices than I've been watching them trade elsewhere. And what bothers me most is that I know that behind those trades are real people for whom the stakes of making...
Brace for steepest rate hikes since 2006 in new year
December 11, 2017
Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade. With the world economy heading into its strongest period since 2011, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. predict average...
Vanguard's Bogle sees pension pain in low bond returns
December 7, 2017
Jack Bogle isn't optimistic about the state of U.S. pensions over the next decade. The founder of Vanguard Group thinks a conservative portfolio of bonds will only return about 3% a year over the next decade, and stocks won't do much better,...
Bank loans or high-yield bonds? Maybe both.
November 28, 2017
Investors searching for income often find it in the below-investment grade credit space. The challenge for advisers becomes, "Where do I put my clients' junk bond dollars to work?" When it comes to investing in below-investment grade credit,...
