Municipal bond interest escapes federal income tax, but the IRS has a separate formula that pulls it back into Social ...
A bond ladder holds a range of maturities rather than concentrating exposure at a single point on the yield curve.
She found a bond yielding 5% and assumed the IRS would never see a penny of it. What she did not check was how that interest ...
Municipal bond CEFs sold off hard—find 5 top high-yield muni CEFs, NAD focus, risks & Medicare/ACA tax impacts. See here for ...
Every few years, bond laddering gets rediscovered as though it were a new idea. It isn’t. The strategy is one of the oldest, least glamorous tools in fixed income, and it keeps resurfacing for the ...
This week, bond yields rose above 5.6% for the first time since 2002. We asked Professor William English, a former Federal Reserve economist, what’s driving the increase and what it means for the Fed, ...
Investors have been worried about falling bond prices, but those have led to yields that are high enough to bring some income-seekers back to the bond market. As we go through a period of declining ...
David Blair, a veteran bond-portfolio manager with First Eagle Investments, sees 'incredible value' in the tax-exempt municipal space right now Yields on municipal bonds - adjusted for ...