Fixed-income investments are still necessary, but with tight credit spreads right now, obtaining extra yield carries heavy risks, says Zebra Capital c...
The era of easy, outsized bond returns has ended. Today’s bond investors should forget about price gains and instead seek to safely squeeze extra yiel...
Morningstar's Steve Pikelny cautions closed-end fund investors to be aware of the risk/reward trade-offs as well as high premiums when searching for e...
Jack Hough on Lunch Break previews the latest issue of Barron's magazine, including the grudge match between Apple and Samsung, four ways to get extra...
Joseph A. Dear, Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System talks about the the performance of his clean-tech energ...
Metropolitan West CIO Tad Rivelle says his team is seeing opportunity in high yield, investment-grade financial bonds, and the non-agency mortgage mar...
The chase for yield may tempt investors to veer from their long-term investment strategies, invest in funds that are concentrated in one dividend-heav...
Investors may need to stretch for a bit more yield, but to get entirely out of a very safe bond index fund and into riskier fare should be unacceptabl...
There are a few ways to beat Uncle Sam’s offer of less than 2% interest. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro asked money managers and strategists where they g...
Dividends are all the rage for investors who want more income and are willing to take on a little more risk. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro discusses thr...
Favorable fundamentals and better yields relative to other fixed-income assets make high-yield bonds worthy of a long-term allocation, but investors s...