High-Yield Bonds and Your Portfolio: Part 1
With income trusts facing new rules in 2011, investors are looking for other income-producing securities to fill the gap. Many are looking for a one-two punch of dividend-paying stocks and high-yield [...]
Why Every Portfolio Needs Bonds
Back on March 25, I wrote a post called The Bond Dilemma that described how nervous fixed-income investors were in early 2010. The Bank of Canada had strongly suggested that it would raise interest ra [...]
More Promises of High Yield Without Risk
I have long argued that savings accounts and GICs are still the best vehicles for short-term savings, because higher yield comes with higher risk. I thought that was an obvious point, but it seems tha [...]
Bonds v. Bond Funds
In my previous post, I looked at the uneasiness many investors have about bonds when interest rates are poised to go up. Some readers have argued that this discomfort can be alleviated by buying indiv [...]
The Bond Dilemma
With interest rates poised to rise later this year, I’m getting a lot of emails and comments from readers who are wary about investing in bonds. There seem to be a lot of myths and misunderstandings a [...]
