As Markets Plummet, Go-Anywhere Bond Funds Rise to the Occasion

 As interest rates have continued to climb today’s bearish market, the non-traditional bond funds have gained 0.6% this year.   Source: Bloomberg Created after the financial crisis to prosper on rising interest rates, the funds instead have bumped along for years amid persistently low borrowing costs. But as rates have climbed in today’s bearish market, go-anywhere bond…

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The Bear Market in Bonds Already Looks Shaky

Although bond bears believe that the future holds lower bond prices, experts believe they are bound to be disappointed once again. Source: Bloomberg The New Yorker magazine once ran a cartoon depicting two politicians sitting in an office in the shadow of the Capitol, with a man behind the desk saying, “Those who ignore history are…

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Bond Rout Deepens After Fed Signals on Interest Rates

Yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury note hits the highest intraday level since September 2014 Source: The Wall Street Journal The global bond market rout is deepening Thursday after the Federal Reserve’s latest signal about a quicker pace of interest-rate increases next year provided a fresh catalyst for investors to sell government bonds. The selling sent the…

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