Bond math is about to inflict some real pain on fixed-income investors

Bond math is about to inflict some real pain on fixed-income investors
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Fixed-income investors are starting to feel the painful realities of bond math.
JUL 01, 2015
  • Fixed-income investors are starting to feel the painful realities of bond math. For most financial advisers, this will be difficult to navigate, and even harder to explain to clients.'It's setting up to be a season of discontent'
  • Turns out, there might have been a reason no amount of searching could uncover a good deal for airline tickets. Charges of colluded price-fixing hits the airline industry and the market is reacting with a vengeance. The DOJ is in the house
  • Pennsylvania-based financial adviser is charged by the SEC with defrauding clients of $3 million used to buy a Florida condo and finance some vacations. Not cool, dude. Malcolm Segal of Aegis Capital Corp.
  • Bottled water might be bad for the environment, but it is still a steady growth industry. It only makes sense to start selling water in a box. The next big debate will be bottled versus wax-coated cardboard

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