Bonds help add diversity to your portfolio and control risk. But they can be complicated. Learning about how to buy and sell a bond is just as important as why to buy or sell a bond. These two things ...

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 ...

Sooner or later, every serious investor confronts two important questions: 1) what are bonds and 2) how do they fit in my portfolio? The following discussion should help answer these questions, but I ...

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Most people are still new to investing in I-bonds, and so it’s not surprising that they have a lot of questions about the basics. As a new year begins, the situation is even more complicated by ...

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A call price is the predetermined cost at which an issuer can redeem a bond or preferred stock. Learn how it works, why it ...

Over the long run, stocks tend to perform much better than bonds. Still, it's good to understand bonds, and they can add some balance to a portfolio. Bonds are essentially long-term loans. If a ...