Market risk along with credit and duration risks explain a large part of bond market and bond exchange-traded fund returns. Yet factor-based strategic-beta bond ETFs are few and far between. Compared ...

Your bond portfolio's return depends on everything from interest rate swings to defaults. Here's what to watch for.

I recently interviewed my colleague Eric Jacobson for Morningstar’s The Long View podcast. Among other things, we talked about his research into active fixed-income investing, summarized in this ...

A bond yield is a measure of the return that an investor will receive on their capital. There are different ways to define it ...

Bonds remain an important part of long-term portfolio asset allocations. After years of poor performance, stable interest rates and improved credit quality have made them more attractive today. The ...