The overall theme for 2023 is “better days ahead.” getty My overall macro theme for 2022 was “still growing but yet slowing.” The theme proved to be relatively accurate, at lea...
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Stocks Could Return About 10% in 2023—But First, They’re Going to Fall
For U.S. investors, 2023 could seem like two years wrapped in one, with the stock market first falling in anticipation of a recession, only to rebound as the outlook improves toward 2024. The one cons...
Mispriced Municipal Bonds Cost Mutual Fund Shareholders And Taxpayers Billions Of Dollars
Money Flow in Black Hole extreme closeup getty In a market where at least 99% of trillions of dollars of fixed income securities have no trades to offer price discovery and the financial data to asses...
Municipal Bonds And ESG: All Hat, No Cattle
Houston skyline (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images) Getty Images Houston, we have an ESG problem. Or do we? From an ESG-risk perspective, between the weather and petroleum-dependent economy, the Ci...
What ‘Dr. Doom’ Says About Today’s Stock Market
For some of us of a certain age, an event from four decades ago often is recalled more vividly than what happened four weeks or even four days ago. Such is the case with Aug. 17, 1982. It arguably mar...
How to Invest Your Cash for the Best Yields, Without Too Much Risk
Inflation is stubbornly high and interest rates on savings accounts aren’t anywhere close to keeping pace. While the yield on a two-year Treasury is now 3.28%, up from just 0.17% a year ago, the avera...
These Mortgage-Backed Securities Offer Hefty Yields, Mild Risk
Text size Bonds from Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac are more attractive than Treasuries or corporates. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Move over TINA, it’s time for TARA. The latter stands for “T...
Investors revisit muni bonds amid higher yields and strong credit
David Jakle | Image Source | Getty Images It’s been a tough year for municipal bonds, with investors cashing out amid rising interest rates. However, higher yields and strong credit may be spark...
The Covid Pandemic Will Leave Lasting Changes To The Retirement Facilities Industry
A woman squeezing the sample liquid on a test strip while carrying out a Covid-19 rapid self test at … [+] home. getty Retirement facilities municipal bonds have historically been the type of bo...
Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again
Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...
3 Ways To Add Income Strategies Back Into Your Portfolio
Is it time to dip your toes back into certain income strategies? getty After a decade of zero interest rates and a dearth of available income opportunities, investors are finally getting a chance to d...
Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...