Bonds are a relatively safe investment and are used to offset riskier investments like stocks. Find out why and how to buy ...

Now that bonds offer decent yields, investors have been barreling into fixed-income mutual and exchange-traded funds. Taxable bond funds and ETFs pulled in net inflows (the sum of money deposited ...

This is the simplest type of callable bond. An optional redemption bond allows its issuer to call the bond, repay the principal, and cease interest payments after a set period. For instance ...

“Stocks get the pixels, bonds get the dollars,” wrote my colleague Sylvester Flood in Morningstar’s Global Fund Flows report earlier this year. It’s a paradox, to be sure. For ...

In general, debt securities like bonds are significantly less risky than equity securities (like stocks) and most derivative securities (like options). But how do munis compare to other types of ...

A savings bond is a debt security that's distributed and backed by the U.S. government. The federal government issues two types of savings bonds: Series EE and Series I bonds. Series EE bonds ...

What makes I-bonds so unique compared to other types of bonds is that they provide a bit of protection against high inflation. In addition to paying a fixed interest rate that the Treasury sets ...

These ETFs and mutual funds invest in different types of short-term bonds and earn Morningstar’s top rating heading into 2025. We sell different types of products and services to both investment ...