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BlackRock is buying a boatload of junk bonds
BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, has been buying junk bonds since relative yields widened to levels that signal default rates more than three times the current pace and in excess of Wall Street's most bearish outlooks for the economy
High-quality junk bonds aren’t junk at all
Their name is an oxymoron, but high-quality junk bonds themselves make a lot of sense in the fixed-income space right now.
High-yield bonds attract flows
High-yield bonds have given stocks a run for investors' money this year, and a tepid U.S. economic recovery could keep institutional money flowing to that corner of the credit market, according to some market watchers.
Fidelity hires ex-Schwab exec for RIA business
Fidelity Investments has hired David Canter, a lawyer who spent more than eight years at competitor Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., for a newly created position as chief operating officer of its investor wealth services unit.
Junk bond funds’ run is expected to hit wall soon
The stellar returns that junk bond funds are generating are unsustainable and will come to an end, fund managers and financial advisers agree, but they disagree on when that will be.
High-yield bonds make big comeback, but rally may be spent
It is one of those rare moments in Leon Wagner's 26 years on Wall Street. Virtually every investment he has made recently has gone up - a lot.
Stable value, junk bond managers rise to the top
Stable value managers made it to the top of the charts among commingled bond fund managers last quarter,…
