Bonds help add diversity to your portfolio and control risk. But they can be complicated. Zero-coupon bonds are cheaper to invest in than conventional bonds but have some unique characteristics that ...

In the old Groucho Marx TV show, a duck would come down and say the magic word. Today, that magic word might be “after tax.” Retirees and other investors are challenged to generate as much income as ...

When professional investors discuss the credit market, a term that often arises is duration, which is used to measure the sensitivity of a bond’s trading price to changes in interest rates ...