What Is the Minimum Investment for Corporate Bonds?In our Where To Buy Corporate Bonds Online article, we discuss the many benefits of using online brokerages such as Fidelity.com, E*TRADE, Interactive Brokers, Schwab.com, and Vanguard...
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Corporate bond investing has moved online in a big way. Individual investors can execute trades in seconds and at prices often as good as -- or even better than -- the world's largest investors....
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What Is a Credit Spread for Corporate Bonds?Credit spreads, also known as Treasury spreads, are the difference between a corporate bond's yield to maturity ("YTM") and the YTM of a US Treasury bond or...
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Notches on the bond ratings scale represent the opinion of credit rating agencies as to the likelihood of a bond issuer defaulting, but they do not tell investors whether a bond is a good...
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We founded BondSavvy in 2017 so more individual investors could benefit from the income, capital growth, and relative safety individual corporate bonds can provide. Few investors take advantage of owning corporate bonds and, instead,...
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Many investors may hear the term "par value," shrug, and ask "What's the big deal?" While the concept is straightforward, the fact that individual corporate bonds trade as a percentage of their par value...
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We founded Bondsavvy to put individual investors in control of their bond portfolios and to increase their investment returns. A key part of this is providing Bondsavvy subscribers with comprehensive, easy-to-understand bond recommendations that...
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Bond investors are generally familiar with the term 'accrued interest;' however, many may not know the exact accrued interest calculation that determines the accrued interest buyers pay -- or sellers receive -- as part...
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Bondsavvy, the leading provider of individual corporate bond recommendations for individual investors, calculates leverage ratios to assess default risk and relative value of corporate bond investments. Leverage ratios tell us how much debt a...
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Many fixed income newsletters publish lists of hundreds of bonds and leave it up to subscribers to weigh the risk and potential returns of each investment. Other bond newsletters focus on all income products,...
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Bondsavvy uses credit analysis to identify undervalued corporate bonds it believes can achieve higher investment returns than the leading bond funds and ETFs. To evaluate potential corporate bond investments, we must understand how bonds...
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Investors who buy bonds online can do a Fidelity bond search and execute trades with the click of a few buttons. Bond investing has come a long way over the last 20 years, and...
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While BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw is the leading expert in recommending individual corporate bonds to individual investors, he is not the only fixed income expert. Major investment banks have fixed income research departments, which...
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Individual corporate bonds are a crucial component of income investing, as they provide yields generally higher than Treasury bonds, muni bonds, and stocks. While the total return opportunity for corporate bonds can be less...
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Bonds are debt obligations of the issuing entity. There are many types of bonds, and a good way to distinguish them is based on the word that comes immediately before the word "bonds." For...
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BondSavvy Live is a bond investing education webinar exclusive to BondSavvy subscribers, which we host three to four times each year. Prior to each edition of BondSavvy Live, BondSavvy subscribers submit corporate bond investing questions...
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