Investors buy corporates for a variety of reasons: Attractive Yields Corporates usually offer higher yields than comparable-maturity government bonds or CDs. This high-yield potential is generally accompanied by higher risks. Dependable Income People who want steady income from their investments,…
Social media is actually a mode of communication among all the members of the country. To get all the news and information related to the whole country, the only way is social media. Television is the social media to get…
Even if you are a Harvard professor, an economist and an authority on financing a college education, finding the right college savings program is still a nettlesome process. Susan Dynarski, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School…
A few decades ago, the home buyer could only get the only type of loan: fixed-rate 30-year mortgage. Now the borrower can choose between the rate that is fixed for the life of the loan (fixed-rate mortgage or FRM) and…
“Specialty financing” or “loans for someone with less than perfect credit” are polite terms used to market “subprime” or “non-prime loans”. Sometimes they are effectively the only way to homeownership for those who have frequent late payments, bankruptcies, liens, judgments…
Exchange funds allow investors a tax-free means to diversify a low-cost-basis and/or restricted stock position. Exchange funds allow investors to pool their low-cost-basis stocks in a fund. In exchange for contributing their stock to the fund, each investor owns a…
Corporate Bonds (also called corporates) are debt obligations, or IOUs, issued by private and public corporations. They are typically issued in multiples of $1,000 and/or $5,000. Companies use the funds they raise from selling bonds for a variety of purposes,…
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One of the best, though little practiced, ways to outrun a mild loss of purchasing power is through stock index funds. Taylor Larimore and his wife Pat believe in low-cost index funds, although it took an experience with a stockbroker…
Like all bonds, corporates tend to rise in value when interest rates fall, and they fall in value when interest rates rise. Usually the longer the maturity, the greater the degree of price volatility. By holding a bond until maturity,…