ISTB tracks a diversified mix of short-term, investment-grade U.S. bonds, offering fixed income exposure and a competitive ...

If you have been looking for Government Bond - Short funds, a place to start could be Lord Abbett Short Duration Income C ...

Fixed-income investing doesn’t have the same glamour and round-the-clock news coverage as stock investing. There’s no such thing as a “meme bond.” Regardless, bonds are a crucial component of a ...

Columbia Threadneedle reported that its Short Duration Municipal Bond Fund beat its benchmark this quarter. See how active management can support your goals.

Bond investors have lots of data to consider -- from credit quality to call provisions. But two gauges, maturity and its second-cousin duration, may be among the most important as bond owners face the ...

"Duration" is a measure of risk related to bonds. It describes how sensitive a given bond is to movements in interest rates. Think of the relationship between bond prices and interest rates as being ...

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Misc fund? Starting with Frost Total Return Bond Investor (FATRX) is one possibility. FATRX holds a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of ...

The 2008 financial crisis and the resulting market shocks had a number of surprising consequences. One that was particularly important to bond investors was the degree to which diversified bond funds ...

Interest-rate risk is top of mind these days given that bond yields have risen across the board thus far in 2018. The 10-year Treasury yield hovered at 2.94% on Sept. 7, up from 2.4% at the end of ...

Bond prices are sensitive to interest rate changes, and bond duration is a measure of just how sensitive. For instance, in Exhibit 1.1 (shown in my last article), an increase in interest rates for the ...

Here's how to use bond duration to understand how interest rates will affect bonds and bond funds. Bond duration describes the average time period before all the cash flows are received from a bond.