Bonds help add diversity to your portfolio and control risk. But they can be complicated. Learning about how to buy and sell a bond is just as important as why to buy or sell a bond. These two things ...

Sooner or later, every serious investor confronts two important questions: 1) what are bonds and 2) how do they fit in my portfolio? The following discussion should help answer these questions, but I ...

When a government or corporation issues a bond, it does so with a specific par value and interest rate. Once in the market, those values don’t change; however, the value of a bond can change depending ...

Savings bonds, issued by the U.S. Treasury, represent a safe and secure long-term investment. Each bond's value is influenced ...

If you’re an equity investor, you buy stocks at the current market price and hope they appreciate. For debt investors, it’s the opposite concept. Investors buy bonds based on their face value: the ...

The accrued market discount is the expected gain to be earned on a discount bond by holding it up until maturity, whereupon it should rise to its face value. This gives investors potential gains.

A version of this article previously appeared in the April 2022 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Click here to download a complimentary copy. Investors have long looked to bonds to control risk in ...