This past year was one of the best since the financial crisis for fixed-income returns. The year started with a significant dovish shift in Federal Reserve policy, which led to increased demand for ...

With greater 2019 flows than their active counterparts, passive taxable-bond funds now have a third of that market. Despite the S&P 500 gaining 31.5% in 2019, U.S. equity funds had $41.4 billion in ...

The Bond Buyer Friday announced the recipients of its annual Deal of the Year awards, marking the 18th year that it has recognized outstanding achievement in municipal finance. This year, The Bond ...

2019 was the last year investors saw what could be called a “normal” easing cycle, driven by macroeconomic growth concerns and falling SP 500 EPS estimates. My impression back then was that Powell ...

Corporate bonds stole the fixed-income show in 2019, outpacing nearly all government debt funds. Riding the wave of market volatility and a tightening Fed, the 20 bond mutual funds and ETFs with the ...

While municipal bond volume looks to end the year on a surprisingly high note, muni bond yields unexpectedly hit record lows twice in 2019. Processing Content According to Refinitiv Municipal Market ...

The stock and bond markets started the year expecting continued strength in the economy, but both became less upbeat about economic prospects towards the end of the year. This year, I decided to look ...

As a bond provides a contractual right to a series of future payments received at specified points of time, the price for a bond is simply the present discounted value of the future cash flows. The ...

Betting against catastrophe faces its first real test. Catastrophe-bond (cat bond) issuance plummeted 44% in the most recent 12-month period, from $9.74 billion to $5.42 billion for the year ending ...