This past year was one of the best since the financial crisis for fixed-income returns. The year started with a significant dovish shift in Federal Reserve policy, which led to increased demand for ...

With greater 2019 flows than their active counterparts, passive taxable-bond funds now have a third of that market. Despite the S&P 500 gaining 31.5% in 2019, U.S. equity funds had $41.4 billion in ...

Corporate bonds stole the fixed-income show in 2019, outpacing nearly all government debt funds. Riding the wave of market volatility and a tightening Fed, the 20 bond mutual funds and ETFs with the ...

As a bond provides a contractual right to a series of future payments received at specified points of time, the price for a bond is simply the present discounted value of the future cash flows. The ...

Investment grade corporate bonds did very well in 2019, and they should continue to perform in 2020, though they are unlikely to match the performance of this year. Foreign demand, easy central banks ...

The top municipal issuers easily surpassed their totals from 2018, with $400.51 billion in 10,582 transactions in 2019 compared to $320.35 billion in 8,549 deals the year before. California regained ...

While municipal bond volume looks to end the year on a surprisingly high note, muni bond yields unexpectedly hit record lows twice in 2019. Processing Content According to Refinitiv Municipal Market ...