Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities

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  Top Portfolio Products: New Factor ETFs From iShares

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 21, 2013

  Credit Suisse launches a silver covered-call ETN as North Peak rolls out an inflation-hedged strategy.

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  Guarding Against Inflation With CPI Swaps Instead of TIPS

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 21, 2013

  For advisors worried about inflation, CPI swaps offer a more efficient hedge because they are a higher-yielding and shorter-duration alternative to TIPS, J.P. Morgan's Cavanaugh says.

• Thriving Amid Low Rates

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  September 25, 2012

  Income investors have been crushed by the depressed interest rate environment.

• Time to Rethink Bond Strategy?

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  With current bond yields low, interest rates lower and the economic outlook “cloudy at best,” Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, says the organization “doesn’t think future bond returns will be nearly as robust as they’ve been.

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  Top Portfolio Products: Franklin Templeton to Buy Stake in K2

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 23, 2012

  Plus, Goldman risk-management fund targets RIAs and more product news.

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  Today’s Bond Yields Are ‘Financial Repression’: Vanguard Expert

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 10, 2012

  Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, wants to be sure that bond investors are prepared for what lies ahead—namely small to negative returns.

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  Puzzling Over Dodd-Frank, Profiting From Social Networks: July Research—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  June 28, 2012

  In Research magazine's July cover story, Manhattan Institute scholar Nicole Gelinas ennumerates ongoing uncertainties about the landmark legislation's scope and significance. Also in the issue, Ellen Uzelac looks at social media's potential.

• Is the Treasury Run Over?

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  April 25, 2012

  Since the beginning of the year, it’s been a “Tale of Two Cities” for U.S. stocks and long-term U.S. Treasuries.

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  War of Borrowers Against Savers: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 8, 2012

  When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced two weeks ago that the Fed expected to maintain its near-zero interest rate policy at least as long as the end of 2014, it was the latest salvo in our loose monetary regime’s increasing repression of savers.

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  Gold: Worth the Risk?

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 13, 2011

  Gold has many attributes that investors want, and it has been one of the few assets to deliver positive returns consistently since 2005.