Bonds are a form of lending, not ownership. Issued by businesses, governments or agencies, they work like IOUs — investors lend money in exchange for regular interest payments and the return of ...

Newbie investors are often overwhelmed with advice on how they should and shouldn't invest their money. But there are a few rules of investing that are tried and true, and one of them is to diversify ...

After enduring a tough year for bonds in 2022 and facing a still-high interest-rate environment in 2023, many investors may be reconsidering the fixed-income allocations of their investment portfolios ...

Learn about Bonds and CDs - their definition, characteristics, types, advantages, associated risks, and the comparison ...

Now that bonds offer decent yields, investors have been barreling into fixed-income mutual and exchange-traded funds. Taxable bond funds and ETFs pulled in net inflows (the sum of money deposited ...

With interest rates on the march this year, many investors are looking at bonds again, for the first time in 10-plus years, as a true income-delivering alternative to stocks. Indeed, while investors ...

Ready for this week’s retirement investing pop quiz? In what kind of bonds should you invest the fixed income portion of your portfolio if you thought that a huge economic downturn was just around the ...

Alieza Durana is a former investing writer at NerdWallet. She has over a decade of journalism experience covering housing, labor, gender and public policy issues for the Eviction Lab, The Fuller ...