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Bond Analysis & Strategy

• Bond Analysis: Science or Numerology?
  
  Bond Analysis: Science or Numerology? There are more methods for analyzing bonds than there are bonds, or so it seems. Even so, some are clearly essential to evaluating risk and potential returns....
• Bond Analysis- Part 2
  
  Bond Analysis: Science or Numerology? Part II — EVALUATING BENEFITS In Part I, we examined some of the risks associated with bond investing. Here we'll look more quantitatively at evaluating the...
• Bond Rating
  
  Bond Rating Research on bonds fills volumes. Or these days, the hard drives of web servers. Nowhere else in the investing world can the interested investor get more helpful information than that...
• Bond Trading Strategy: Swapping
  
  Bond Trading Strategy: Swapping Ah, if only the world would stand still - just for a little while. But, in the world of investing (as elsewhere) it's never so. Forecasts made on purchasing day have...
• Calculating Bond Yields
  
  Calculating Bond Yields Few investors trade in order to lose money. For those seeking to make a profit, comparing the potential returns over different time spans of different instruments is...
• Influences On Interest Rates
  
  Influences On Interest Rates First, a confession: Interest rates are unpredictable. But then, you knew that already. Fortunately, they're not entirely unpredictable. Good bets are possible. But...
• Managing Risk
  
  Managing Risk Every bond carries some risk that the issuer will default on repayment of the principal or suspend interest payments. Once that risk is measured (see 'Measuring Risk' elsewhere in this...
• Measuring Risk
  
  Measuring Risk Few investments offer as objective an estimate of risk as bonds. Because of some fixed characteristics - par (face value, repaid at maturity), coupon (interest rate, percentage paid in...
• Tax Considerations for Investors
  
  Tax Considerations for Investors One reason stocks are more popular than bonds is that the latter are more complicated. Ironic, considering their risk and returns bonds are easier to judge and...