Discover how negative convexity affects bond prices, key risks, and how to calculate it. Learn why mortgage and callable ...
Fixed-income investing doesn’t have the same glamour and round-the-clock news coverage as stock investing. There’s no such thing as a “meme bond.” Regardless, bonds are a crucial component of a ...
In November, my colleague Eric Jacobson published a Fund Spy article entitled "Bond Duration: An Art, Not a Science." In it, Jacobson listed the imperfections of duration as the predictor of how a ...
As interest rates begin to soften, fixed income investors are increasingly revisiting the role of bond duration in shaping portfolio returns. In an insightful conversation, Gautam Kaul, Senior Fund ...
About the author: Lara Castleton is U.S. head of portfolio construction and strategy at Janus Henderson Investors. After the pain of 2022’s great interest-rate reset, investors are now benefiting from ...
Global bond portfolios are more sensitive than ever now, given their extended maturities increase the risk of capital losses as the Fed and other major central banks prepare to aggressively tighten ...
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Is FATRX a strong bond fund right now?

Misc fund? Starting with Frost Total Return Bond Investor (FATRX) is one possibility. FATRX holds a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of 2 (Buy), which is based on various forecasting factors like size, cost, ...
Individual corporate bonds typically require $1,000 minimum purchases and leave retail investors stuck with whatever credit ...
Let’s start with the obvious fact that even good long-term investments can suffer major drawdowns if the entry price is wrong, and if an investor does not have a plan on how to deal with the ...
Bonds are debt instruments that outline certain loan terms for the lender and the borrower. Maturities are dictated in the bond indenture, the document that describes how the bond works and includes ...