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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...