The Vanguard High-Yield Active ETF (NYSEMKT: VGHY) is a surprise entrant into the Vanguard lineup, given its decades-long conservative investment philosophy. Nonetheless, Vanguard is in the junk bond ...

One straightforward approach is to combine three Vanguard ETFs to build that foundation: the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF ...

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which measures the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated, taxable bonds that are rated either ...

The surging popularity of passive investing has left active asset managers scrambling. That’s the headline story, but it’s not the whole one, as we’ve detailed in recent issues of Morningstar magazine ...

Zachary Evens: Bonds play an important role in portfolios. They spin off reliable income and provide ballast when stocks sink. But bonds are not without risk. Some can be whipsawed by interest rate ...

King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has launched its ...

Building a bond ladder. Expanding offense and defense with select ETFs—including QQQ, RSP, GOVI, TBF, and UVIX—enables ...

Exchange-traded funds that focus on riskier corporate bonds were clinging to gains Wednesday afternoon, after the Federal Reserve said that it will hold its benchmark interest rate steady. The SPDR ...

The move follows growing belief that the Fed will start to ease monetary policy as early as September. Information from the CME FedWatch tool indicates futures markets now giving over a 94% chance of ...

The U.S. job market created only 73,000 jobs in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Additionally, downward revisions to May and June resulted in the elimination of a whopping 258,000 ...

Chinese investors are snapping up exchange-traded funds tracking bonds, betting on their lower costs and diversified exposure to profit from an environment of stubborn deflation and policy support for ...