Your bond portfolio's return depends on everything from interest rate swings to defaults. Here's what to watch for.

Treasury bonds are low-risk loans to the U.S. government, typically paying out interest on a regular schedule. Like all bonds, they're still subject to interest rate risk: If rates rise, bond values ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. There are a broad range of bond options available to you, ranging from safe investments like Treasuries to risky but high ...

In my last column I wrote about bonds and their usefulness in investment portfolios. Today, I want to talk about how to position bonds within your portfolio. This is really the art in portfolio design ...

Discover the function and security of collateral trust bonds, backed by financial assets like stocks and held by a trustee to ensure bondholder security.

Discover how noncallable securities work, their interest rate implications, and why issuers can't redeem them early without ...

Many people invest in bonds for the relative safety they provide compared to riskier investments such as stocks. But just because some bonds have less risk than stocks does not mean that they’re ...

AGG ETF tracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, offering wide U.S. bond market exposure. It includes diverse bonds and uses sampling to emulate the index's performance. AGG has a low expense ...

I spend a lot of column space talking about equities (stocks). Whether U.S. or international, large cap or small cap, or value or growth, equities are a way of buying a small ownership in the future ...