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High-risk investments often bear a striking resemblance to the world of casinos—a realm filled with the allure of great rewards and the ever-present risk of s...

High-yield bonds, or junk bonds, tend to come with higher interest rates due to their higher levels of perceived risk.

A public-to-private transaction ("P2P") is one in which a publicly listed company is acquired and taken into private ownership. Because they involve changes in ownership of public...

Income investors have become accustomed to expanding their search for yield beyond traditional fixed income securities for more than a decade.

The modern practice of inflationary monetary policies has drastic, wide-reaching effects on the economy. Over the last 40 years, monetary policy has caused interest rates to decline from a high of around 20% down to the zero bound. During the same period, the U.S. dollar (USD) money supply has expanded at a rate never before seen in modern history and asset prices in dollar terms exploded to the upside, all while the U.S. average hourly wage has lagged on an unprecedented scale. Ironically, the...

May 5, 2021 With Treasury yields soaring, punishing other corners of the fixed income market in the process, advisors have their work cut out for them. Clients may be getting skittish about bond allocations, and the previously trusted 60/40 portfolio mix may not be as valuable as it once was. In other words, it’s easy to see why clients may want to ditch bonds altogether, but it’s crucial for advisors to remind them about the diversification benefits offered by these fixed income products...