Your retirement portfolio is fundamentally flawed: GMO

All across America, retirees and near-retirees are reeling. They were assured by simplistic “McMoney” financial advisers that bonds were “safe,” that bond returns were steady and predictable, and that...

Here’s how much cash you need for a recession, according to advisors

designer491 | iStock | Getty Images With the threat of a recession looming, more financial experts are sharing how to prepare — including how much cash it may be smart to set aside.   The end of June ...

S&P 500, Nasdaq book 3rd day of gains after Fed minutes point to another big rate increase this month to tackle inflation

U.S. stocks end higher Wednesday after minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting signaled another big interest rate-hike is likely later this month despite the risk of slowing economic grow...

HourGlass Secures Decentralized Bonds with Chainlink Price Feeds

HourGlass announced that it has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on the Ethereum mainnet. It will help the platform secure its decentralized convertible bonds issued by the FORTH DAO. HourGlass has ga...

Investor delivers new tech ‘bubble’ warning

The recent tech rally may be doomed. Money manager Dan Suzuki of Richard Bernstein Advisors warns the market is far from bottoming — and it’s a concept investors fail to grasp, particularly when...

US Futures Dip, Stocks Pare Gains as Bonds Advance: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — US equity futures retreated and Asian stocks trimmed gains Monday as slowing economic growth and sticky inflation continued to cast a shadow across markets. Most Read from Bloomber...

Stocks Had a Nasty 6 Months. The Second Half Could Be Ugly Too.

Text size Bond markets are pricing in significant additional interest-rate hikes this year, but some stock analysts’ earnings forecasts remain optimistic. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It was a first half d...

It Is Time To Buy Bonds

It is time to add to bond holdings. Bettmann Archive US 10-year note prices are likely to rise through August. The monthly histogram below shows that July and August have been the two strongest months...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

MakerDAO Seeks To Invest $500 Million In Untapped Territories OF Bonds And Treasuries

As the bear market trend is getting more intense, many protocols and other crypto-related firms are making moves for survival. On its part, MakerDAO plans on a minimal risk investment strategy to rais...

S&P 500 had worst half in 50 years, but the 60/40 portfolio isn’t dead

Stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The S&P 500 Index, a barometer of U.S. stocks, just had its worst first half of the year ...

The S&P 500 Had Its Worst First Half Since 1970. What the Second Half Holds.

The S&P 500 has posted its worst first half of a year since Richard Nixon’s presidency, and many investors worry it has yet to hit bottom. In the first six months of 2022, the widely followed larg...

Citi Lowered its S&P 500 Target. That Doesn’t Mean to Avoid Buying Stocks.

Text size Citigroup’s latest target for the S&P 500 represents a double-digit gain. Mario Tama/Getty Images Buying the market now could still pay off, even though strategists are more pessim...

Economist Roubini: Why Stocks Poised for 50% Wipeout

The stock market is off to its worst start to a year since 1962, with the S&P 500 dropping 21% in the first half of 2022. Meanwhile, many experts are warning that a recession is likely within the ...

Rollover IRAs cost consumers $45.5 billion in fees, earnings: study

andresr | E+ | Getty Images IRA rollovers are common for job switchers, retirees Investors rolled $516.7 billion from workplace plans into traditional IRAs in 2018, the latest year for which data is a...

MakerDAO Votes To Allocate $500M Into Minimal Risk Bonds And Treasuries

MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the DAI stablecoin, is voting on how to allocate $500 million in treasury funds. The proposal is aimed at helping the organization navi...

MakerDAO looks to invest $500M into ‘minimal risk’ treasuries and bonds

MakerDAO is currently voting on a proposal aimed at helping it weather the bear market and utilize untapped reserves by investing 500 million Dai (DAI) stablecoins into a combination of United States ...

How to buy Series I savings bonds via TreasuryDirect

Eakgrunge | Istock | Getty Images There’s been record demand for federal Series I savings bonds, an inflation-protected and nearly risk-free asset, offering an eye-popping 9.62% annual return th...

MakerDAO May Invest in Bonds

Key Takeaways MakerDAO is looking into investing 500 million DAI into U.S. treasury bills and possibly corporate bonds as well. The move, which has been discussed for months within the governance foru...

Russia slides into historic debt default as payment period expires

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with head of Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) Yury Chikhanchin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia June 27, 2022. Mikhail Metzel | Kremlin | ...

High-Yield Bonds Are Looking Like Bargains After an Awful First Half

There are no bad bonds, only bad prices. So Dan Fuss, Loomis Sayles’ vice chairman, has often observed—a lesson gleaned from more than six decades of experience managing corporate bond portfolios. Aft...

The Great Bond Crash Of 2022!

“This Historic Collapse Presents a Huge Buying Opportunity” It is official! The back-to-back quarterly losses of nearly 18% in the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Average is the third worst six-month period ...

How inflation, interest rate hikes affect the 60/40 portfolio strategy

How a 60/40 portfolio strategy works The strategy allocates 60% to stocks and 40% to bonds — a traditional portfolio that carries a moderate level of risk. More generally, “60/40” is a sho...

Investors bruised by the stock market are crawling back to savings bonds — here’s what this once humble, now hot asset can do for you

Investors bruised by the stock market are crawling back to savings bonds — here’s what this once humble, now hot asset can do for you Does looking at your portfolio these days make you feel a little q...

How Income-Hungry Retirees Can Score Safe Yield for First Time in Years

Junk bond yields might seem attractive, but investors should be careful with them as the possibility of a recession looms. Barron’s Staff Illustration; Dreamstime (1) Text size Investors have go...

The 60/40 Stock and Bond Strategy’s Time Has Come Again

Text size Dreamstime It may be time for investors to return to one of the oldest of portfolio management tools to cope with the new bear market. That would be the traditional combination of 60% stocks...

US Notes Are Likely To Fall In The Coming Week

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Getty Images There are four periods in any year that are bearish for US notes. These periods are in March, June, September, and in December. This applies to both US n...

What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds

Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...

Bonds haven’t protected you from the bear market in stocks. But this one asset class could have

Would you be interested in an asset class that produces long-term returns that are nearly as good as the stock market but is as uncorrelated with the stock market as bonds are? Of course you would. Bu...

Stock Market Has a Very Bad Week. Why It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better.

After a three-year hiatus, the Golden State Warriors are the best team in basketball again—and they had to navigate an injury-driven tumble from the top to the absolute bottom to do it. There’s a less...

Attractive ETF for a volatile market is DIVO: Amplify ETFs CEO

Investors may want to consider a special fund focused on high dividend yielding large-caps, according to a leading ETF fund manager. Christian Magoon believes his firm’s actively managed Amplify...

This Is Why You Should Ditch Your Bond Funds And Buy Some Bonds Instead

Rising interest rates are very bad for bond funds while individual bonds held to maturity can … [+] perform considerably better. (Photo by Johan NILSSON / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Pho...