The good news is that, broadly speaking, the picture looks really sound in muni world.
Investors are weighing prospect of higher rates for longer.
There has been a trend away from mutual funds toward ETFs, but not in the 401(k) world, and fund provider F/m Investments sees that an opportunity.
The longest-dated portion of the firm's senior unsecured notes, an 11-year fixed-to-floating-rate note, may yield about 2.05 percentage points over Treasuries.
Bond traders are finally coming to the realization that the rock-bottom yields of recent history might be gone for good.
Northern Trust research shows that tech sector stocks, especially AI, were among the winners.
The most direct implication of the inverted curve isn't a recession, but that yields will be lower in the future.
The company made the change in response to confusion among investors who use its corporate credit ratings.
Or will higher yields repel buyers in the next round of refinancing?
'Not worth panicking about' — advisors caught off guard by Fitch's timing but remain sanguine.
In cutting its rating on US sovereign debt to AA from AAA, Fitch cited 'repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions.'
Advisors hail traditional benefits of ETFs while trend toward aggressive equity exposure shows how 'soft landing has replaced recession.'
While sustainability-linked bonds have come in for some criticism, they have the potential to dominate the roughly $6 trillion ethical debt market.
BlackRock hails once-in-a-generation opportunity as advisor urges investors not to forget long-term goals.
With inflation at its lowest level since March 2021, advisors are hoping the Fed can stop raising interest rates.
As the recession outlook moves further down the road, advisors see the Fed keeping rates higher for longer, boosting the appeal of fixed income.
Consensus estimates are that the US economy will dip into recession later this year or early next year.
A quarter of sustainability-linked bonds, which typically pay higher interest if the issuer misses ESG targets, can be redeemed before any penalty is triggered, according to a new report.
The broad markets are climbing a wall of worry, although that's been overshadowed by the triple-digit returns of tech sector highfliers.
'When an advisor or client stretches for yield, that’s when they can get hit,' one financial advisor notes.
