The Hartford Sustainable Municipal Bond Fund (I Share) outperformed the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index during the period.

Investors in the top tax bracket can earn yields equivalent to 8% from high-quality long-dated municipal bonds, this Baird team says.

Columbia Threadneedle’s Bond Fund beat its benchmark in Q2 2025 with smart duration and credit picks. See how it navigated ...

The Largest Bond Index Funds: The Worst Q2 Performers In an up-quarter across most of the bond market, long-term treasuries lagged. The Bronze-Rated iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF was not only ...

All in all, about 38% of active bond funds beat comparable index funds over the past 15 years. But there is still some good news: Investors tended to gravitate to the funds that did.

Vanguard Short-term Corporate Bond Index is up the most among passive funds with an average annual gain of 1.6%, while Pimco Income again comes out ahead among the largest active funds with a gain ...

Companies' U.S. dollar bond issuance will likely carry September to one of the heaviest months for investment-grade supply ...

Stocks are pricing in significant earnings growth, and significant economic growth, yet at the same time, the macro data are ...

Key Points The global bond market value at $140.7 trillion exceeds the global equity market at $115 trillion. Bonds, offering fixed income, bought/sold over-the-counter, are less volatile than stocks.

●In July, the overall bond market posted a slightly lower return in total return indices compared with last month. ChinaBond ...

The spread on the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index (.MERH0A0), a commonly used benchmark for the junk bond market, has climbed by more than 200 basis points since the beginning of the year, and ...