Fixed income

As inflows soar and market dislocations vanish, an industry that consigned to history two major disruptions of the pandemic crash is back.

How the Fed proceeds is key for investors who have plowed into steepening bets, a move that peaked with last week’s surge in 10- and 30-year yields.

The central bank’s own data show that slightly more than half of U.S. households own stocks. But that doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.

One strategist — who last month warned about owning stocks — said that he now believes he was “far too cautious” during the current market rally.

Don’t expect significant changes anytime soon to longstanding complaints about conflicts of interest in the “issuer pay” model of the ratings business.

Banks and insurers have trailed the S&P 500 by 20 percentage points, their worst performance at this point of a year on record.

As liquidity disappeared amid the coronavirus-sparked mayhem, veteran fixed-income portfolio manager Gemma Wright-Casparius saw opportunities.

One French trade group reports that the country’s managers reduced research budgets by as much as 75% between 2017 and 2019.

For better or worse, investors have mostly turned around the fortunes of risky assets entirely on their own.

Crush of inflows to money-market funds has come even as the funds’ own yields approach zero.

Economic damage wrought by the coronavirus has not stopped investors from piling into the companies able to churn out profits in the stay-at-home world.

Brokers and fund managers are turning to innovation to remain competitive and capture new customers.

Citadel Securities is humming at record pace as the coronavirus upends finance, moving dozens of employees and their families to a work-from-resort bubble.

There are appealing methods to shift investments “upstream” to aging parents or “downstream” to grown children.

With few corners of the fixed-income industry safe from harm, investors’ faith in managers appears to be intact — for now.

Dubbed Disco III, the fund will target leveraged loans, high-yield bonds and collateralized loan obligations.

Total net assets in Michael Hasenstab's Templeton Global Bond Fund slumped to $22.6 billion as of March 31, public filings show.

There’s more money at stake when executing trades in current market uncertainty.

The firm’s chief investment officer spent as much as a third of that on high-yield funds, according to people with knowledge of the matter.