Fixed Income

• The Outlook for High-Yield Bonds: High Income or High Risk?

  By J. Gibson Watson III, CIMA, Envestnet, and, Nathan Behan, CFA, CAIA, Envestnet | PMC  |  May 23, 2013

  These days, the search for yield has some unique challenges, but what’s the outlook for non-investment grade bonds?

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  Bernanke Talks and 10-Year Treasury Yield Zooms Past 2%

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Bernanke admits that savers who rely on interest income from savings accounts or government bonds are receiving very low returns even as low interest rates have helped create jobs and support home prices.

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  Bond Investors Must Prepare for Rate Spike: SEC’s Walter

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  At the FINRA conference, SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter also said it was time to get to the "nitty-gritty" of a fiduciary rule.

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  Stocks Have Room to Rise, but So Do Interest Rates: J.P. Morgan’s Kelly

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 17, 2013

  J.P. Morgan Asset Management's David Kelly believes the biggest drag on the U.S. economy is the Federal Reserve, and investors must prepare for inflation.

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  Top Portfolio Products: Goldman Launches Alts Fund

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 17, 2013

  Also announced in the last week: an emerging-markets government bond index fund from Vanguard.

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  Purchasing Pools: The Brazilian Remedy to Ease America’s Credit Crunch

  By Juliana Molinari de Almeida Santos Cunha, Attorney, Sao Paulo Bar Association  |  May 17, 2013

  The Brazilian economy and legal system may offer the American middle class a way out of its credit access problem via the Brazilian “Purchasing Pool System.”

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  3 Market Strategies for Advisors, Investors From Russell

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 15, 2013

  The investment group also has four steps advisors and clients may want to consider for the rest of the year in their bond investments.

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  Quick QE Exit Unlikely, but Do Get a Bond Haircut: PIMCO, Loomis Sayles

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  "A bond and equity investor can choose to play with historically high risk to principal or quit the game and earn nothing,” says PIMCO's Bill Gross.

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  U.S. Recovers as the World Watches: Schroders

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  U.S. investors are well acquainted with market uncertainty and the wobbly economic recovery, but they’ve got nothing on worried investors elsewhere in the world.

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  MSRB (Still) Awaits SEC Muni Advisor Rule; Plans EMMA 2.0

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  Three years after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is still waiting for the SEC to issue its rule defining who is a municipal advisor.