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David Gillie: In a volatile and uncertain market, yield hungry investors have piled into every means of bonds to find return on their capital. With interest rates at historic lows, this hasn’t been an easy task to find yield. Treasuries are at negative yield. A municipal bond failure scare rippled through the Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have gotten off to a solid start in the new year, although looming Euro zone debt woes continue to breed some degree of pessimism and one piece of bad news from Read more…
Kevin Grewal: As confidence in a sustainable economic recovery continues to remain wary, unemployment remains high, the equity markets remain volatile and consumer demand grows at a snail’s pace, high yield corporate bonds, and the exchange traded funds that track them, could pose an Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Investors were a bit anxious to jump into the equity markets on Wednesday ahead of the U.S. GDP report, while Oracle’s disappointing earnings didn’t do much in the way of restoring confidence. The European Central Bank laid out a $641 billion three-year loan program for the regions Read more…
For the moment, stocks have found some footing and look set to snap a 3-day slump, thanks to better than expected unemployment claims, manufacturing data, and earnings from FedEx (FDX). Even so, that has not changed the fact that the S&P 500 is still Read more…
Matt Tucker: Earlier this month, Jefferson County, Alabama became the largest issuer in the municipal bond market to file for bankruptcy. Back in 1997 the county tried to upgrade its sewer system. Through losses on interest rate swaps and fraud, the debt burden from the sewer project rose from $555 million Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Dividend investing is one of the oldest and most popular strategies amongst retail and institutional equity investors on Wall Street. Legends like Warren Buffet and Benjamin Graham are well known advocates of this value investing approach, and their success in the financial markets speaks Read more…
Michael Johnston: PowerShares, one of the leading providers of alternative weighted ETFs, announced today the latest addition to its fixed income lineup. The new Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio (NYSE:PFIG) will offer an alternative means of accessing high quality corporate bonds Read more…
Michael Johnston: In recent years, ETFs have become increasing popular tools for accessing the fixed income corner of the market. The space initially grew much more slowly than equity ETFs, but investors have gradually become more comfortable with the combination of fixed income exposure Read more…
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Noel Archard: A friend of mine recently told me she doesn’t like my blog posts as they’re too complex. She prefers Kevin’s weekend reading list over my “technical-manual ramblings”. In an attempt to stir things up, I’m going to write about the dead-sexy topic of risk-off trades and our old Read more…
David Fry: With yields low, investors seeking income are tempted to seek yield in other sectors where real rates of return after inflation can be found. Higher yields have traditionally been found Read more…
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Actively managed ETFs have been slow to gain traction so far among most investors for a variety of reasons. Higher than average fees, a boatload of academic evidence suggesting inability of active Read more…
Fixed income investors with their bats on their shoulders for have asked the same question of U.S. treasuries for years: Yields can’t possibly go lower, can they?They may 
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