Fixed income

High income can only come with high risk, a lesson investors learned painfully in 2008. Here’s a better way to think about fixed income.

Bill Gross, who has been telling investors to favor short-term Treasuries, is following through on his own advice as longer-maturity bonds suffer their biggest losses in four years.

Municipal analysts and strategists are looking in the health care and housing industries and at credits with intermediate maturities for potential bargains that may be created by irrational fears over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling.

The world’s biggest investors are finding U.S. government bonds becoming safer, not more risky, as the deadline to avoid the first American default approaches.

Treasuries fell for the first time in three days as U.S. lawmakers made progress on passing a budget and ending a partial government shutdown, curtailing demand for the relative safety of debt.

The Swiss Bank is reviewing loans issued to clients in Puerto Rico. One brokerage customer said he was given credit to buy risky bond funds holding the island’s government debt.

The firm is trying to find if its advisors improperly offered non-purpose loans to clients for purchase of its securities.

The Federal government shutdown will leave most agencies overseeing the bond market mostly operational in the near-term, but the municipal advisor rule’s implementation will be delayed and issuers are worried that Build America Bond payments might be cut off or delayed.

Pimco's Bill Gross said the U.S. will avoid a “catastrophic” default on Treasury securities even if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling.

With rates inching upward, some clients may want to skip fixed-income investments entirely. They shouldn't.

Corporate-bond brokers may face a squeeze on profits as regulators start publishing prices for almost $1 trillion of privately sold debt, if the past is any guide.

Gorman, who owns about $31 million of his firm’s stock, has a Morgan Stanley private wealth advisor and his personal investments include municipal bonds and a biotech fund, while he favors global equities for his children’s accounts.

There have been 16 straight weeks of outflows from muni bond funds, to the tune of $26.4 billion, and industry watchers do not expect flows to bounce back anytime soon.

Foreign investors should be diversified in order to survive this period of market volatility.

A $495 million competitive sale of Arkansas general obligation bonds will lead primary market activity this week in the municipal bond market as long-term volume increases after last week’s holiday lull.

With caregivers and family the most common culprits, advisors have become a first line of defense.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley & Co. have been fined $1 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) it was announced today.

It’s a mistake for investors to be focusing on fixed income, according to Joseph L. Hooley, chief executive officer of Boston-based State Street Corp.

Federal Reserve policy makers were briefed last month on the potential for establishing an additional tool to aid them when they eventually seek to lift interest rates and tighten monetary policy.

Treasury 10-year note yields approached the highest level in two years before the Federal Reserve releases minutes of its July meeting that may contain signals on when policy makers plan to curtail monetary stimulus.