Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) have transitioned from being niche alternatives to essential ...

Bonds, once viewed as a reliable hedge against risk, took on the role of risk accelerator since 2021, as inflation shifted traditional stock/bond correlations from negative to positive. This trend is ...

Bonds are a key component for a robust asset allocation strategy, but the asset class isn’t immune to sharp drawdowns. In the worst-case scenario, bonds and stocks suffer sharp and simultaneous ...

You may be familiar with bonds, but bond funds are a different way to invest in them. A bond fund is a professionally managed pool of bonds — held inside an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or mutual fund — ...

Emerging-market bond funds are beating other US-dollar-denominated bond categories in 2025. Among the catalysts are the rising creditworthiness of emerging-market countries and increasing demand for ...

IGSB offers broader diversification, with almost double the number of holdings as VCSH. Both ETFs deliver similar yields and nearly identical recent returns, but IGSB’s expense ratio is just slightly ...

Diversification is an investment principle designed to manage risk. However, diversification does not guarantee against a loss. The key to diversification is to identify investments that may perform ...

When investment-grade corporate bonds deliver monthly income while rates remain elevated, the question is whether the total ...

After central banks around the world lowered rates to climb out of the global financial crisis, suppression made bonds less ...

Jonathan Ponciano is a financial journalist with nearly a decade of experience covering markets, technology, and entrepreneurship. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...