With clients desperately searching for yield, advisers need to be leery of the marketing claims associated with some fixed-income products, warns Bruce Kelly.
Trader says bankrupcty will likely shake up tax-exempt landscape in California
Bond investors are going through something they've never experienced before: Their fixed-income portfolios are getting whacked. Many are fleeing — and may not come back for a long long time.
Led by Pimco's Total Return, funds lose $60B in June as rate rise spooks investors.
Fed's Lacker, an opponent of more stimulus, says expect more price swings amid taper debate.
Redundant comments from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke trigger a silly selloff. Jeff Benjamin says to call the aftermath a Fed-inspired buying opportunity.
Investors seek clues to end of easing; markets anticipating the tapering
The ever-important jobs report has bond investors on pins and needles as they seek any glimpse of the Fed's rate policy.
Investors over-shoot by over-reading Fed's tea leaves.
Silver lining in month-long jump in rates? That could be it for now.
Rates are rising but there's no big catalyst to drive big losses.
As debt yields shrink, bond giant looking at other avenues
Dickson says funds using Barclays Aggregate as benchmark are larding on the corporate debt to hike yields; 'mismatch'
Good for advisers seeking ways to help clients protect principal.
With interest rates and monetary policy locked in for the near term and fiscal policy uncertainties expected to persist, our top-down 2013 outlook is for a low growth, low inflation economic environment. We believe this "Goldilocks" environment — which is neither "too hot" nor "too cold" — could be credit supportive. A bottom-up reading of the credit environment also supports this view, but the story becomes more of a cautionary tale in which investors need to be more selective about their investment choices.
IN webcast panel stress need for flexibility in allocations.
Star fund manager says he doesn't want to resort to 'shadow markets' like derivatives.
While not ready to the bond-buying spree, managers are prepping for a shift toward equities
Alternative ETF strategies beginning to emerge.
Bond market sell-off likely a question of when, not if, and investors 'have no idea what's about to happen'
