Fixed Income

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FIXED INCOME MAY 31, 2017
Illinois' financial woes present risk — and opportunity — to muni bond investors

The state's 10-year bonds carry a 4.45% yield, but come with a lot of credit risk.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES MAY 24, 2017
Investments that advisers should look at in an overheated market

Cash, alternatives, international all beckon, but all have pros and cons.

By John Waggoner
FIXED INCOME MAY 19, 2017
Trump miscues, more cash becoming available will drive summer muni bond rally

As Trump agenda derails, municipal bonds are benefitting from flight to safety as well as a mismatch between bonds maturing and new issues.

By Bloomberg
WIREHOUSES MAY 17, 2017
Finra fines Merrill Lynch $650,000 for bond trading violations

Regulator censures firm for handling of customer orders for nonconvertible preferred securities

By InvestmentNews
FIXED INCOME MAY 05, 2017
OppenheimerFunds stays uniquely committed to Puerto Rico's muni bonds

Big bets by the Rochester muni bond team lead to feast-or-famine performance record.

By Jeff Benjamin
FIXED INCOME MAY 01, 2017
Increase your probability of success in the bond market

By Gene Tannuzzo, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, Strategic Income
MUTUAL FUNDS APR 27, 2017
Conduct due diligence on bond funds beyond a performance review

Position a portfolio to look forward and not just backward.

By Todd Rosenbluth
EQUITIES APR 25, 2017
Stocks and bonds sending out divergent outlooks on economy

Equities are bullish on economic growth, while bonds take a more pessimistic view.

By Bloomberg
FIXED INCOME APR 20, 2017
Bond funds soar as stocks slump and hopes for economy start to dim

The high expectations for economic growth in the wake of the presidential election may have been overblown.

By John Waggoner
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 19, 2017
Income with Impact: The Investment Case for Green Bonds

By William Sokol, Product Manager, VanEck Vectors ETFs
EQUITIES APR 12, 2017
Investors pour into bond funds in March

But junk funds get trashed.

By John Waggoner
FIXED INCOME APR 07, 2017
Pimco's Dan Ivascyn is relieved firm's lawsuit with Bill Gross is over

Ace manager talks about the Fed, interest rates and his biggest worry as a bond investor.

By John Waggoner
FIXED INCOME APR 06, 2017
Arizona broker-dealer settles charges it underwrote fraudulent muni bonds

Lawson Financial settles with SEC over due diligence in nursing home financings.

By InvestmentNews
WIREHOUSES MAR 31, 2017
UBS loses another Puerto Rico bond claim, this time for $4.4 million

This is the third multimillion-dollar loss involving Puerto Rico bonds or bond funds UBS has seen since December.

By Bruce Kelly
FIXED INCOME MAR 27, 2017
Bill Gross ends lawsuit with Pimco for $81 million and his reputation intact

Pimco gives legendary bond king kind words and money to settle rancorous suit.

By Bloomberg
FIXED INCOME MAR 23, 2017
Vanguard's Joe Davis on interest rates, the US economy and what the Federal Reserve will do next

Plus, the global chief economist and head of the Vanguard Investment Strategy Group discusses whether federal debt is at crisis levels.

By John Waggoner
EMERGING MARKETS MAR 20, 2017
Expect slow but steady economic growth worldwide

By Gillian Albert
MUTUAL FUNDS MAR 03, 2017
Bill Gross' Pimco successor, Dan Ivascyn, is on a hot streak

The Pimco Income Fund returned 10.6% in the past 12 months alone and investor money is now pouring in at a pace unseen by any other actively managed stock or bond fund

By Bloomberg
FIXED INCOME MAR 02, 2017
A caution light for high-yield bonds

By John Waggoner
FIXED INCOME FEB 24, 2017
What Fed rate hikes mean for retirees

As rates slowly move higher, the safest and shortest-term investments, such as certificates of deposit and money market funds, will start to pay higher yields. Finally.

By Jeff Benjamin