If you’re an equity investor, you buy stocks at the current market price and hope they appreciate. For debt investors, it’s the opposite concept. Investors buy bonds based on their face value: the ...

When a government or corporation issues a bond, it does so with a specific par value and interest rate. Once in the market, those values don’t change; however, the value of a bond can change depending ...

You can check the value of your savings bond through the TreasuryDirect website. Even if you have paper savings bonds, you can check your value online, as long as you have the issue date, bond series ...

Savings bonds are a classic, conservative investment often gifted by parents and grandparents to their progeny. But savings bonds have more than sentimental value — they’re also worth real money. At ...

A version of this article previously appeared in the April 2022 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Click here to download a complimentary copy. Investors have long looked to bonds to control risk in ...

Before we can discuss bonds in depth, it is important that we establish a common understanding of what bonds are and how they work. As a starting point, a bond is a contractual obligation to make a ...

With bond yields hovering near historic lows and the Federal Reserve promising more of the same, financial advisers are increasingly making the case for trimming or even eliminating bond allocations ...

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 ...

When evaluating which investments to add to or subtract from your portfolio, one factor that might influence your decision is whether a particular stock, bond or fund seems like a good value. But ...

Sarah Bush, an associate director covering fixed-income strategies for Morningstar, sat down Thursday with Laird Landmann of TCW, Gibson Smith of Janus, and Elaine Stokes of Loomis, Sayles to discuss ...

The Democrats’ proposal to tax unrealized capital gains for about 700 of the richest Americans would raise the stakes on the inexact science of valuing municipal bonds. Processing Content The ...

The consensus view continues to favor higher rates and puny or negative bond returns over the medium term. 401-k asset allocation decisions based on these capital market forecasts force risk-averse ...