The single greatest advantage bonds offer the small investor is a known exit: a built-in, automatic, hands-off exit strategy. One that will pay all the interest and any capital gains due, and return $1,000 per bond in principal, too!
No guessing required!
Except for certain types of annuities, bonds are the only investment that, on the front end, give you an exact exit point and the exact dates and amounts you will be paid while you hold the bond. Read On...
Despite the five-year run-up in the market there is a way to get great bargains by playing the beaten-up industries – i.e. bottom-fishing. And there is a technique that can allow you to do it without the usual risks associated with trying to catch falling knives…
Today I’m going to share a great example of how to use the technique to earn a reliable double-digit yield, but first let me explain why most bottom-fishing strategies fall short… Read On...
About seven or eight years ago at one of our Oxford Club meetings, we had a discussion about options and how to play them…
One of our Members stood up at the end of the presentation and delivered one of the best comments I’ve heard… Read On...
It isn’t easy getting up every day to fight the Fed and just about every other central bank in the developed world. But that’s exactly what retired and conservative investors face every day.
The Fed has been having a money printing party, trying to force buyers out of fixed income and bonds, and into stocks and real estate. The result has been a market where the 30-year Treasury bond pays less than half of what it should.
Bond yields have gotten so low it’s laughable. Read On...
The party in bonds is not over for income investors. It’s just getting started! Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) released a report this week that said interest rates have to move up significantly in the next few years – and, best of all, the run will start this year. The report also stated that the pressures that have held rates so low for so long are gone and the market is set to move. Read On...
In the past few weeks, investors (and I use the word loosely) looking for “yield at any cost” crossed a line. A month ago we could’ve said they were misinformed and were risking their money unnecessarily. But now they’re just plain insane.
The debt market is getting crazy!
SLM Corp. (Nasdaq: SLM), the student loan company, recently sold $1.1 billion of the loans on its books. Read On...
The Fed just made it a very merry Christmas!
When it comes to the direction of bond prices and yields, no one, and I mean no one, in recent memory has even been close on their predictions.
It’s been a four-year parade of nonstop goof-ups.
Bill Gross, one of the best minds in the money business, was at least 18 months early with his move. Read On...
Maturity and “garbage” bond traps are slamming shut all over the bond market.
But most investors will never know they’ve stepped into one of these traps until it’s too late… And their money is gone.
Corporate bond purchases have reached levels never before seen – $143 billion last month alone – the most active September on record. Read On...
Essential industries are a great place to invest during your retirement and while you’re building your nest egg.
Nothing is more essential than energy. We’re dead in the water without it.
Energy is as important to our survival as food and shelter. That alone makes it a great place for retirement investing. Read On...
Imagine earning 8% to 12% on virtually every investment you’ve ever made.
That’s what a certain type of bond can offer you.
Even better, these same bonds pay when rates go down… They pay when rates go up… In fact, in the current market, even the high-yield version of these bonds is paying… Read On...