The prospect of more interest rate cuts has investors wondering how to enhance the bond portion of their portfolio. A fixed indexed annuity could be the answer.

Inflation always impacts the performance of your investments. Skyrocketing inflation is giving Americans an object lesson on this fact of investing life, with the most recent consumer price index (CPI ...

Traditionally, fixed income is where financial advisors look to reduce portfolio risk. This is no longer the case in the post-pandemic period, as the bond market has experienced major volatility, ...

US Bond Market, as measured by Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, generated 1.10% total return in Q4 of 2025 (0.63% in ...

Once confined to stocks, index investing is now prevalent with bonds. Their influence extends past the mainstream categories. In recent years, indexing has come to dominate the less common bond ...

Optimizing your investment portfolio in retirement has everything to do with achieving the right balance. Traditionally, balancing involved finding the right mix of stocks and bonds, with percentages ...

With Federal Reserve interest rate cuts pushed to later in 2024, the first quarter was mixed for the largest bond funds. The funds with the greatest sensitivity to changes in interest rates lost ...

Bonds are doing what they are supposed to do in a crashing market: offer investors a lower risk option as stocks tank and volatility rises tied to a new bout of global uncertainty, in this case ...

Interest rates are now at their highest levels since the early 2000s, helping to make bonds more attractive to investors who had been sitting on the sidelines the past couple of years as bonds endured ...