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By Seth Meyer In this video, Portfolio Manager Seth Meyer discusses the latest in high-yield fixed income, including how the market has changed and the current health of fundamentals and technicals within the sector. He also shares some strategies he believes can help generate yield whi...

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I don't care which sector you are in. I don't care which asset class is your priority. With the bare exception, lately, of Treasuries, we are in the House of Pain. In the last 60 days the DJIA is down 8.7%. The [[QQQ]], the largest of the ETFs representing the FAANG stocks, is down 13.0% and...

Background A few months ago, I wrote about the The Fed Dilemma . I have since then discussed the various points in more details. The last financial crisis was primarily caused by high leverage among households and financial institutions. Banks have deleveraged significantly since then and t...

In the last five years, every time the stock market weakened by a similar magnitude as we saw this October, there was notable junk bond credit-spread widening. Even if one goes back further in time and looks at all sell-offs in this bull market that started in March 2009, one would see that se...

Reaching for marginally more yield in corporate debt and equities, while taking on much higher capital risk, is dumb money management. And yet, it continues to be the consensus financial recommendation. Today, because BAA-corporate bonds have been indiscriminately bought at high prices, thei...

By Ashok K. Bhatia, CFA There are a variety of factors that suggest an active approach to fixed income is a preferred option, which may become even more evident as policy normalization continues and the long-lived credit cycle eventually returns. Given the surging popularity of passive...

The Most Bullish Sign In An Otherwise Bearish Market There has been a minimal amount of good news in the equity market over the past few weeks. The S&P 500 is down over 8% this month alone with other sectors such as Regional Banks ( KRE ) and Housing ( ITB ) falling 10.3% and 7.4% in the...

Because of the below-normal volatility in stocks over the past five years, save for sharp corrections that were few and far between, the recent sell-off in the S&P 500 from 2940 to 2710 has generated the usual worried calls from clients wondering if "the top is in." My answer is that it wo...

While it's been a harsh month for stocks, junk bonds are outpacing the S&P 500 this half, Bloomberg First Word reports. More news on: Netflix, Inc., Uber, iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...